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W.L.A. van der Maden
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Trustworthy Embodied Conversational Agents for Healthcare
A Design Exploration of Embodied Conversational Agents for the periconception period at Erasmus MC
This paper explores the potential implications of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in healthcare, focusing on the impact of appearance and conversation style on trustworthiness. We conducted a Research through Design investigation of ECAs for supporting women during the peri
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Design for wellbeing during Covid-19
A cybernetic perspective on data feedback loops in complex socIotechnical systems
The COVID-19 pandemic has put wellbeing on the global agenda like never
before. Many businesses, organizations, and even governments have recognized
wellbeing as a formal policy goal. This paper addresses the question of how to design
complex systems to improve the wellbeing of t
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Designing Positive AI
How optimizing for contextual wellbeing inspired a design method for artificial intelligence that promotes human flourishing
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from curatorial AI in YouTube to generative AI in ChatGPT, demonstrates both potential for progress and risks of harm. Adopting a Positive Design approach aimed at directly enhancing human wellbeing, this dissertation develops the concept
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Framing the opportunities of robotics in meaningful autonomous vehicle experiences
An exploration of fundamental needs, AI-systems, and user interfaces
Vehicle automation will increasingly release car drivers from driving tasks, allowing them to engage in previously inconceivable activities. Experiential components are therefore expected to become central in human automotive mobility. In this context, the design of future in-veh
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Atrium
Facilitating social interactions for sustained wellbeing in a digital campus life
It would be hard to think of someone who isn’t benefiting from their social circles and social interactions within them. The many and varied social interactions we all experience are intrinsic to nurturing and maintaining our social connections, which are arguably one of the core
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Iterative training with human rated images to improve GAN generated image aesthetics
Effects of dataset size and training length
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) brought rapid developments in generating synthetic images by mimicking structures in the training data. With the list of application of GANs growing drastically, it has lately become an exciting technology to explore for designers to communi
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Designing trustworthy Voice Assistants for healthcare
Theory and practice of Voice Assistants for the Outpatient Clinic Healthy Pregnancy
In the Netherlands, the healthcare sector is facing increasing staff shortages and the demand for adequately trained healthcare personnel is expected to increase in the coming years. Shortages in obstetric care mean that not all women and their partners receive the care they need
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Mindful Music Listening
Fostering Wellbeing on Music Streaming Platforms through Positive AI
Recommender systems have become a core strategy of countless online sites and platforms including music streaming services like Spotify. These recommender systems are associated with limiting our exposure to a narrower range of content, this is even the case for features designed
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Designing a dashboard for wellbeing data
A recommendation system for individual wellbeing
Due to COVID-19 the overall wellbeing worldwide decreased. Assessing and improving wellbeing became a more important subject. This article describes the design research that uses the My Wellness Check survey created by the Delft University for Technology and aims to create a dash
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Beauty in the Eye of Machine
Using Automated Measures of Aesthetic Beauty to Improve GAN Output of Satellite Images
This paper aims to evaluate which automated measures of aesthetic beauty are the best predictors for human ratings of aesthetics and proposes that typicality and novelty may increase the correlation between the two. To study the correlation between these metrics, a literature stu
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Exploring the design space for Wellbeing in the context of digital experience
A sensitizing toolkit design
The Netflix documentary, ‘The Social Dilemma’, has shown that ubiquitous digital platforms such as Facebook, YouTube tend to use artificial intelligence to optimize the system for user engagement. The documentary provides an example of why metrics that optimize engagement, such a
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Orthopedic surgeries are identified as one of the most noisy surgeries inside the OR (operation room). The highest noise sound level could reach up to around 130 dB, which is harmful to patients’ well-being and are likely to evoke negative feelings during surgery. In the previous
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A decrease in wellbeing worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic called for ways to assess wellbeing in a scalable and adequate manner. Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) seem suitable, however, applying them optimally in certain contexts remains a challenge. This study aims to
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Is healthy eating simply the intake of correct quantities of certain nutrients, regardless of how and where? This project addresses improving wellbeing within the broad context of eating.
Eating-related guidance products have a hyper-focus on nutrition and/or weight loss, to th
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Correctly processing accumulated information is beneficial for our survival. Berghman and Hekkert (2017) argue that this is why we humans derive pleasure from having a sense of aesthetics. These aesthetic experiences can be seen as our brain’s reward system for correctly perceivi
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The increase in global internet users brings forth a vast amount of social media users and therefore opinions that are shared online. A subset of those users, adolescents, seem to develop some sort of addiction towards social media, which could lead to low life satisfaction. This
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With the COVID-19 pandemic testing humanity worldwide in unforeseen ways, wellbeing assessment has stepped to the foreground of individual health status. Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) prove promising as an assessment tool, but lacking the means to retain users engaged dur
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With the surge of mental health issues during COVID-19, more emphasis has turned towards assessing wellbeing. At the same time, recent advances in AI have shown huge potential in a variety of fields. However, few solutions are available at the intersection of those two fields. Th
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Despite the fact that climate change is becoming increasingly dangerous and prevalent, there is still a lack of public engagement. This can be explained by the fact that the media portrays climate change as an abstract concept. The message can be more effectively communicated thr
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The growth of dating apps has changed the way relationships are formed. These applications have enabled users to widen their dating pool of potential partners through profile recommendations based on proximity and shared interests. However, dating app usage was also found to impa
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