The effect of visuohaptic delays on task performance and human control strategy in manual control tasks

Currently haptic technology is being widely implemented in applications such as tele-operation. One of the main concerns are the communication delays due to the visual or haptic feedback signals traveling long distances. Also, different subsystems handling visual and haptic feedback cause modality-specific delays causing asynchrony between...

Entrepreneurship in Solar Energy: Discovering the Product Meaning and Designing a Product, Service and Business Model

This thesis presents the design of a solar energy product-service-experience combination that could provide solar energy a new product meaning and perhaps encourage Dutch consumers to use (more) solar energy. The project was initiated by the start-up Googreen as a means to explore suitable business opportunities for the company to enter the...