Memory Canvas Workshop

Grief is a phase everyone has to pass at some point in life. Whether a loved one passes away, you lose your job or your relationship. Grief is a natural reaction to process this loss. Everybody has a personal way to process this.

The Memory Canvas Workshop stimulated the participants to start the grieving process on a pleasant and constructive way. It is all about ‘holding on to & letting go’:

Holding on to the memories you have of your loved one.

And letting go, by going through all the phases of grief. Accepting the fact of the loss and returning to society as a stronger person.

The design is a workshop with a creative medium to extract the memories and emotions people have about their loved ones. This medium – Memory Canvas – becomes a special souvenir for the creator and the relationship with the deceased.

Short project description

Client

AB-Ire, Uitvaart Dienstverlening, is the client of this project. Owner and stakeholder Martijn Huffnagel was involved in the creation process by selecting and recruiting a suitable user family. He provided domain knowledge and participants.

Project information

Project type: Individual Final Master Graduation project
Start date:  September 2009
Final presentation: April 2010
Supervisor: Elise van den Hoven

Spinning in Control: Design Exploration of a Cross-Device Remote

This project has been presented and demoed at the TEI’11 in Funchal, Portugal. The publication is part of the conference proceedings. 
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ABSTRACT

You buy a new TV and get a new remote, you buy a DVD player and you get another remote, you buy a sound system and guess what… Almost every digital media product comes with its own designated remote control (RC). What would happen if one remote adapts to the owner‟s activities and is able to have cross-device control? In this paper we describe a design exploration conducted to create new ways to interact with digital media products. The main ingredients are: fit for a social setting, portable, and including physical interaction. The result is an exploration of a button less single-hand remote control concept.

The department of Industrial Design, study association Lucid and the organization committee can look back on a very successful hosting of the SIDeR’09 conference.

Highlights

• Gerard Kleisterlee (Philips CEO) opened the conference

Keynote lectures by

• Marianne Grave Petersen (University of Aarhus),
• Tobie Kerridge (RCA and Goldsmith University) and
• Peter-Paul Verbeek (UTwente)

Additional

• A conference dinner with Premsela and three speakers:
  • Paul Atkinson (Journal of Design History),
  • Jelle van Dijk (Hogeschool Utrecht and TU/e) and
  • Zuzanna Skalska (Van Berlo Studios).
• A successful Lego NXT workshop
• 82 participants representing 18 institutions from 8 different countries
• 18 interactions accepted out of 39 submitted

SIDeR’09 showcase

Passenger comfort

The “Smart tEchnologies for Stress free Air Travel” (S.E.A.T.) project is an European consortium in which the Eindhoven University of Technology has its focus on the physical and mental comfort aspects related the sitting comfort on long-haul flights.

Within the research project the goal was to analyze the current seating positions, to find out how people use to sleep and sit in Economy Class seats.

Case studies

From three studies have been conducted to get a clear idea the behaviour of sleeping passengers. This information was used to design a system to that measures the head and shoulder posture.

This created system can be implemented in a upgrade of the flight-lab. By measuring the sitting posture preventive feedback can be implemented to decrease effects of fatigue and mental discomfort during long-haul travel. For example: inflating or altering the position of the neck support or starting a built-in neck-massager.

Publication

A paper, containing the research, has been accepted at the World Congress on Engineering 2009:

Tan, C.F., Chen, W., Kimman, F. and Rauterberg, M. “Sleeping posture analysis of economy class aircraft seat”. Accepted to World Congress on Engineering 2009, London, U.K., 1-3 July 2009. (Nominated for Best Paper Award). Publication

Client / lecturer

CheeFai Tan (project supervisor), Wei Chen (student coach) and Mathias Rauterberg (project leader).

Deliverables

M1.2 SEAT project report

Compilation: Study III user test

Masterclass Object+

Object+ are four skatable objects enriched by interactive technology. This allows skaters to have visual feedback on their skate performance.

Open-ended skateboarding

Skaters have several ways to approach an obstacle when standing on the board:

Jump over, Grind on, Go around, and Land on it

The purpose of Object+ is to provide the skateboarders with a new open-ended way to play games while being on the board. Object+ allows the skaters to receive visual cues about distances, time, score and contact. These values can be used to perform new game variations during boarding, for example:

• Distance or height of the jump
• Parcours: score more points, or be faster
• Agility & balance: bump into the Object and the score will reset

Fit the skateboarder

The look & feel of the Object+ fits the image skaters have:

Tough, rough, cool, relaxed, masculine,
Loyal, helpful and sociable

The shape allows it to be stacked in different ways, for example around the corner in a ‘bowl’.

The looks are black and rugged and big, to make it look extra tough.

Skateboarding stays skateboarding

But most important in the Object+

should add something to skateboarding and not change the foundations of skateboarding.

Interaction

Object+ enriches skateboardin with new possibilities to interact and new forms of game play. Through interaction possibilities:

• Blue and Red LED’s to provide feedback
• Tilt switches to reset the ‘score’ of blue or red LED’s bars
• Distance sensors to measure skaters jump over or past the Object+

Client

Simon Cramer from Area51 Skate park, Eindhoven.

Project information

Date September – December 2008

Supervisors: Berry Eggen and Jacques Terken Client: Area 51 skatepark

Client / lecturer

Concept Q

Q is a social and tangible media allocation system. All digital media content is linked to the system and distributable to linked output devices.

1. Attach a device and use the appropriate token to browse its digital content.
2. Make a selection
3. Add the content to any of the output devices or other storage devices for sharing purposes.
4. Enjoy

Play & share

With Q you can listen to your music, watch your movies and photos or view your documents. With content dedicated tokens you can load, re-locate and share your data. The tokens are the data container and are instantly mobile: Pick them up and take them to another Q!

The physical limitation through the shape of the tokens and ‘media cubes’ will guide and restrict the user to the appropriate output device.

One week: From scratch to concept

Q is the result of a one-week module where foundations and theories were presented. One activity was the visit of the TEI’08 conference in Bonn, Germany.

The input from the conference, the theoretical backgrounds were implemented into the design of Q, a tangible media product.

Project information

Master project and module overview

Student information

Name: Floris Kimman
E-mail: f.p.f.kimman AT student.tue.nl
Website: www.florism.nl
Student number: s010532
Phase: M2.2
Retry: 0

M2.2 Final Master Project

Assessor: Marco Rozendaal (DQI)
Competency coach: Elise van den Hoven (UCE)
Client: Martijn Huffnagel (AB-Ire)

Additional voluntary module

• Business Platform Design

M2.1 Philips Research internship

Assessor: Oscar Tomico (DQI)
Competency coach: Elise van den Hoven (UCE)
1st company coach: Hans Weda (Philips Research)
2nd company coach: Steven Luitjens (Philips Research)

SIDeR’09

Advisors: Kees Overbeeke and Stephan Wensveen
Committee: Rob Tieben, Serge Offermans, Hugo Nagtzaam,  Ivo Wouters and Floris Kimman
Website: www.flirtingwiththefuture.com

M1.2 Research Project: SEAT

Assessor: Tilde Bekker (UCE)
Project & Competency coach: Wei Chen (DI)
Project client: Chee Fai Tan (UCE, PhD-canditate)
Feedback documents: Competency feedback, Project feedback

Class

• Userclass. Feedback

M1.1 Design Project: Rhythm of Life

Assessor: Sietske Klooster (DQI)
Competency coach: Loe Feijs (DI)
Client: Sidarto Bambang Oetomo (DI, Maxima Medical Center)

Modules

• Foundations for Tangible Interaction
• Passion for Design
• Autonomous behaviour
• Quality Complaints in Consumer Products or Alternative
• Qualitative Research Methods for Interaction Design
• Visions on Ambient Intelligence
• Design culture in historical and socio-cultural context

Rhythm of Life Application

One in ten premature newborns lack a normal cardiac function at birth.

Medical staff are being

trained to respond to this critical situation, but unfortunately the reanimation procedure can lack efficiency. The decrease in efficiency is caused by: stress, inexperience or lager intervals between training and actual reanimation.

This project was in corporation with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)of the Maxima Medisch Centrum (Veldhoven, the Netherlands).

Functions

The Rhythm of Life Application or ROLA is a device that supports the NICU-staff in their work to reanimate these prematures. The ROLA has two functions:

• Feedforward: audio signal that provides the right rhythm to hold on to for the reanimation
• Feedback: to visualize the pressure used to reanimate

Both function to aid the medical staff in their work to save the child’s life.

Light pattern of ROLA feedback

ROLA test

Aftermath: A project team of the ID bachelor program conducted research with the prototype on the effects of it on the quality of the reanimation. Concluding that the feedforward and feedback functions help the medical staff to significantly increase the efficiency of the reanimation.

Paper on the design and the research has been submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine:

W Chen, S Bambang Oetomo, L Feijs, P Andriessen, F Kimman, M Geraets, and M Thielen (2009). Rhythm of Life Aid (ROLA) –An Integrated Sensor System for Supporting Medical Staff during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) of Newborn Infants.

Client / lecturer

Supervisor: Loe Feijs
Client: Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, Maxima Medisch Centrum

Project information

Individual
10 weeks (February 2008 – June 2008)
Client: Sidarto Bambang Oetomo – Maxima Medisch Centrum Veldhoven