The Art of Crafting - creating an art educational initiative for vmbo-pupils

In this graduation project, vmbo-pupils have been researched so videos (for ARTtube) and a museum tool (for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) can be designed. This research concludes with guidelines, which can be used when designing an art educational product for this target group. Based on these guidelines mix&fix a portrait has been created, with...

Player Experiences and Behaviors in a Multiplayer Game: Designing game rules to change interdependent behavior

Serious gaming is used as a means for improving organizational teamwork, yet little is known about the effect of individual game elements constituting serious games. This paper presents a game design experiment aimed at generating knowledge on designing game elements for teamwork. In previous work, we suggested that interaction- and goal-driven...

A framework of technology-supported emotion measurement

Emotion measurement is a vital aspect for new product development and product improvements (see e.g. P. Desmet & Schifferstein, 2012). Nowadays, new technological devices, data mining, and social media offer many opportunities to invigorate design research. This paper tries to combine both aspects by exploring the question, how new...

A strategic solution for fostering the 3DP marketplace business

This project focused on an analysis of the unmet needs of 3D printing shop owners, as well as the needs and concerns of the end customers in a 3DP e-commerce context. The goal of the product is to create a design solution for fostering a 3D printing marketplace business for project client - Triple 3D. The report explains the research analysis,...

Transforming the experience of rush hour lanes

This project was initiated as a way to explore possible applications for dynamic road markings on highways. During rush hour some of the shoulder lanes are opened for traffic. These lanes are known as rush hour lanes (‘spitsstrook’ in Dutch). Matrix signs with green arrows indicate that the road user is allowed to use the lane that is usually...

Market Introduction Strategy for a new Hilti cordless rotary hammer with dust removal system

A short term market introduction strategy is developed for a new type of cordless rotary hammer with dust removal system. Additionally long term recommendations for strategy and design are presented. The results are based on an extended user research including an observation of a drilling task.

An intuitive crew application for KLM

In December 2013, the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM) approached the TU Delft with an outline for a graduation project. KLM set out the goal to develop an intuitive crew application for their pilots and cabin attendants to fulfill all their non-operational information needs. Furthermore...

Children as co-researchers: More than just a role-play

Co-research is a method that engages participants in contextual user research by giving them the role of researcher. This method aids to capture their input in the fuzzy front end of the design process. A previous study [5] showed that children can act as co- researchers to gather contextual knowledge. In that study 20 children aged 9-12...

Down the rabbit hole: A starter kit for collaborative creation

Starting point of this project was human interaction in relation to technology and the project goal to design a relevant product that contributes to people’s lives. Explorative user research was used to set the domain for the project on collaborative creation. Next, a vision on the domain was developed, using the ViP-method. The vision proposes...

The Wireless Kitchen: Introducing Inductive Power Transfer in the Kitchen Environment

Inductive power transfer is a technique to transfer power between two systems by using induction. Philips has started the development of a standard for this wireless power transfer technique for products with high power, such as kitchen appliances. The Wireless Kitchen graduation project was started to investigate this introduction of inductive...

Creating a richer library experience for adolescents

This reports describes a designed user experience for young adults in the public library of Delft (DOK). The experience is based on moveable furniture that is digitally connected with each other via a music application. Youngsters can share music with their friends, realtime, within the library. A 'lyrics tool' in the application makes it...

An innovative backseat for comfortable working and relaxing in a car

BMW envisions a future where cars will drive on their own without humans needing to control it. This will change the way people are sitting in their cars, since they are able to use this time for working and relaxing. In preparation to this development, the company is now interested in the design of a back seat where the passengers can relax,...

Rebuilding the Scotchgard Protector brand for 3M Nederland

3M is an American company that was founded in 1902 in Minnesota. Their business originally started with mining (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) but they soon switched to the more profitable production of sandpaper. 3M is a technology and science based company with a very wide portfolio of products. It has more than 80.000 employees and over...

Ironing out the interface: Design of an iron user interface that elicits the feeling of simplicity

This is the master thesis of the graduation project entitled “Ironing out the interface: design of an iron user interface that elicits the feeling of simplicity”, performed for the Philips Garment Care marketing department based in Amsterdam. The goal of this project is to improve the user interface of steam and system irons, by designing an...

Design of a user-centered packaging for medical nutrition

Recently a new powder product in the Medical Nutrition range has been developed for elderly to prevent sarcopenia, within Danone known as Spartacus. Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass and strength, resulting in immobility and frailty. Current packaging formats might cause usability problems with elderly; therefore a new format has to be...