Enhancing awareness of biodiversity crisis in families that visit Naturalis

Currently, biodiversity is under worldwide pressure. The organization Naturalis Biodiversity Centre wants to discover ways to address the biodiversity crisis in their museum. <br/><br/>For the design process, the double diamond method is applied. Through desk research and interviewing experts, the concept of biodiversity is explored. To have a...

Stimulate and Support Sustainable Behaviour: A gamification based intervention towards sustainable behaviour within project scope in a marine contracting organization

Over the years, the marine contracting sector has faced many challenges surrounding safety, the economic fluctuations because of the oil crisis and now tackling the sustainability challenge. Years of experience in the offshore industry, a heavy industry that contributes significantly to the climate crisis through its environmental impact, is...

A launch strategy to increase awareness and availability of MakaPads in rural Uganda

Girls and women in Uganda lack Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) information, and proper tools and facilities to manage their periods. There are different methods that girls in rural areas use to manage their menstruation such as cloths or pads. This project focuses on menstrual pads as they are hygienic, absorbent, and comfortable. Therefore,...

Supporting nurses to discuss intimacy and sexuality with patients with incurable cancer

For many people, experiencing intimacy and sexuality is an important aspect of the quality of life. People who are suffering from incurable cancer are no exception (Wang et al., 2018). Often patients encounter a shift from focus on diagnosis and treatment, to emphasis on psychosocial support when cancer treatment is no longer effective. When it...

Empowering teenagers in their interactions with social media sexualisation: Educating teenage girls to be in control when interacting with sexualised social media content

This master thesis report is the result of a six-month-long graduation project for the Design for Interaction master track at the TU Delft. The goal of this project is to improve the interaction between teenage girls and sexualisation on social media. It does so by generating awareness and empowering them to avoid negative influences that affect...

Towards preventive oral care: A digital matching tool for products and habits

Oral care is known to have an impact on general wellbeing. Individuals neglecting their mouth and the care it needs, could lead to unaffordable dental expenses.<br/>This thesis researches if more awareness regarding oral health and daily habits can lead to a higher purchase intention of personal oral care products.

Increasing the resilience of urban areas to extreme precipitation: Are the residents ready?: The receptivity for effective rainproof measures on private terrain in the neighbourhood De Baarsjes, Amsterdam

Water challenges the livelihood of all living beings through its scarcity and its abundance. Due to climate change these extremes will intensify in the future. As mankind continues to cluster in economic centre points, housing areas as well as infrastructure increases. This situation forces the water to run off rather than infiltrate. Inundated...

Me and My Smartphone - The influence smartphones have on our lives: Using critical designs as a tool to raise awareness for our societal issues related to smartphones

Smartphones have become an inseparable gadget and beneficial tool in our lives. Imagining a future without them would truly be impossible. When a new technology arrives, society needs time to adjust and become aware of the impact products have on people and our ways of behaving.. This always takes time. In the case of smartphones, the last few...

A modular aquaponic system designed for company canteens

Aquaponics is the combination of two existing techniques, hydroponics (soilless farming), and aquaculture(aquatic animals growing). This symbiosis process of recycling wastes and recirculating water creates potentials for aquaponics in future vegetable and aquaculture produce. The vision of Riverfood (client company) is to make aquaponics...

De starterskas: Compact apartments for starters in a food conscious environment

Amsterdam is like many other cities facing several problems in the coming future. For my graduation project especially two project are important.<br/><br/>Firstly, our food system is under a lot of pressure. Worldwide we are not able to feed the global population. On a smaller scale the population of cities is growing due to urbanization. The...

Creating Awareness in the Agri-Food Sector Using a Serious Game Session: Implementing technologies which improve the traceability of the logistic supply chain

This research is conducted in order to create awareness in the agri-food sector about the effects of improving traceability with the contribution of innovative technologies. To create this awareness a serious game session is designed. At this moment the current Dutch agri-food sector lags behind if it is about innovating the logistic supply...

Creating awareness around tyre conditions

"Transforming the current complex and technical context of car tyres into a more accessible and satisfying experience.” Currently many consumers are not fully aware of the safety issues of their tyres. 60% of all cars in the Netherlands are being driven with at least one under-inflated tyre. In addition to this, 42% of the cars with summer tyres...

'Food For Thought'

The DGS will be transformed into a culinary educational center. This center is place for the school childern (and neighbors) to share their passion for farming and cooking with others. The culinary center will contribute to the awareness of pure and healthy food.

ArchWiki: Using Web 2.0 for Architecture Knowledge Management

Software architecture plays an important part in program comprehension, which is one of the most time consuming tasks in software development. If software developers don’t properly share their architectural knowledge with team members, the team will act based on an incomplete or even possibly incorrect view on the code base, and this can lead to...

Measuring Quality Improvements After Stimulating Software Quality Awareness Among Developers

Software systems are getting larger and more complex. It takes therefore more time and money to maintain these systems. The maintenance effort is strongly related to the quality of the implementation during the development phase. Providing qualitative numbers to developers about their previous im- plementations could help increase the quality of...

Awareness Creation for the Carbon Policy among Employees

This graduation project has been performed at AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals in order to attain the Master of Science degree at the Faculty Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology. In this executive summery an overview of the most important information is given. AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals consists of a managerial...