Knowledge and Intelligence Design (KInD) is a human-centered and multi-disciplinary research group based at Sustainable Design Engineering department of the Industrial Design Engineering faculty, Delft University of Technology.
KInD focuses on the relationship between the science and practice of design, and the digital technology that fuels intelligent products, services, and systems.
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Design in the Digital Age
Individuals, organisations and society are taking advantage of computing power to crunch data and automate decision-making. This trend is opening up many new possibilities – from social robots to digital infrastructures for intelligent cities and health-care systems. But it also poses complex questions for designers. Questions around bias, fairness, transparency, and contestability in automated decision making. Questions about the emerging relationship between people and automated devices. The Knowledge and Intelligence Design (KInD) researches these – and many more – questions.
Intelligent tools and methods
KIND’s work leads to new tools and methods for designing, understanding and controlling knowledge- and intelligence-centric product-service systems (PSS). By integrating research in design with research in data science, Internet of Things, machine learning, human-computer interaction, spatial analysis, and crowd computing, KInD aims to unlock the potential of digital materials – to design and engineer intelligent PSSs that are robust, meaningful, intelligible, accessible, and inclusive.
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News and Updates
- [December 4, 2024] | Achilleas Psyllidis delivered an invited lecture as part of the Urban X Seminar Series at KAIST, South Korea. The recording of his talk is available to watch here.
- [November 25, 2024] | New opportunity at KInD! PhD Position in the Design of Bio-Hybrid Interactive Electronics. Read more here.
- [October 18, 2024] | Laura Drost graduated, defending her thesis 'Validating Ultrasound Plant Sensor Data through the Perceptions of Growers'. Her thesis is available here.
- [October 16, 2024] | New article in the Journal of Transport Geography, "Bridging or separating? Co-accessibility as a measure of potential place-based encounters." Read it here.
- [Oct 4, 2024] | Roos Teeuwen successfully defended her PhD dissertation on "Measuring Children's Access to Urban Greenspace." The dissertation is available here.
- [Sep 26, 2024] | Vasileios Milias successfully defended his PhD dissertation on "Urban Co-accessibility." The full dissertation is available here.
- [Sep 24, 2024 ] | Achilleas Psyllidis shared insights on how the 15-minute city influences accessibility, equity, health, and well-being during a DUT Urban Lunch Talk webinar. You can watch the full recording here.
- [Sep 16–20, 2024] | Check out 'The Accessible City', a Team Science story featuring Achilleas Psyllidis and other TU Delft mobility researchers. This article is part of the broader TU Delft Urban Mobility campaign, 'City on the Move'
- [September 9, 2024] | Britt van der Rijt graduated, defending her thesis 'Redefining Measurement: Exploring Couple’s Social Interaction Data For Psychological Well-Being Assessment'. Her thesis is available here.
- [September 2, 2024] | New article in Cities & Health, "Children's access to urban greenspace: a survey of factors and measures." Read it here.
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