Graduation opportunities

Strong brands play a significant role in shaping consumer behaviour. They can influence purchase decisions, perceptions of product and service experiences, and even foster emotional connections with consumers that lead them to form communities. Moreover, brands can shape how individuals see themselves and their social roles; for instance, purchasing specific brands can reinforce group membership, helping individuals feel a sense of belonging and authenticity. Recent research in consumer behaviour continues to provide compelling evidence of how brands not only structure market perceptions but also how consumers view themselves and others.

By leveraging speculative design methods, the project employs speculative design methods to examine the impact of AI on workplace visibility, highlighting opportunities and risks such as increased efficiency and transparency against concerns about privacy, data security, and ethical implications. Specifically, it explores how AI shapes, mediates, and facilitates impressions in the workplace. To achieve these aims, the project will create diegetic prototypes, mockups, and speculative interactions that reveal value tensions within this context.

We created Cyli, a cylindrical display that allows users to collaboratively explore and interact with 3D content directly - by moving the display around. We have a prototype that enables some basic demos, but there’s so much potential for the system to support engineering, design, education, games, and many other fields. We’re looking for masters students who want to design, program, and evaluate more complex interactions with the system for their graduation and possibly for academic publications in Human-Computer Interaction venues. This means that the graduation project involves a balance of design, programming, and research.

After years of advancements in creative AI, the field is now moving toward a collaborative approach. This project explores the potential of Human-AI Co-Painting, focusing on how traditional painters can meaningfully collaborate with AI to create artwork. By addressing the challenges of over-reliance on text prompts and limited artist involvement, the objective is to develop a new framework that explores innovative Human-AI collaborative methods to empower painters, and redefine the role of AI in creative processes.

In this project, you are invited to contribute to a research project “Fioxphobia”, which is part of a large consortium including diverse collaborations between academia and industry partners. This assignment expects you to implement Ai technology to motivate consumer repair behaviour for small household appliance. You are asked to focus on the design for behaviour change and motivational design. You are free to come up with whatever design you think fits best (product design/ interaction design/ PSS design).

Het gebruik van digitale diensten heeft een voetafdruk op het klimaat. Achter elke digitale applicatie zit een netwerk van kabels, apparaten en servers dat aangelegd moet worden en van stroom moet worden voorzien. Ondanks een gigantische slag in de efficiëntie van dit netwerk, neemt de totale impact op klimaat en milieu eerder toe dan af. De voorspelling voor komende jaren is dat de uitstoot van de ICT-sector zol verdubbelen tot 4% van de wereldwijde uitstoot. Een andere belangrijke reden is dat er sprake is van zogeheten rebound effecten bij de toepassing van efficiëntere ICT: meer efficiëntie leidt simpelweg tot meer gebruik. Om de impact van ICT-diensten op klimaat en milieu echt te verkleinen moeten we ook aandacht besteden aan het gebruikersperspectief.

We are Beyond Bounds, a design-led startup revolutionizing the lighting industry with customizable, 3D-printed lamps. By combining technology with sustainability, we aim to create designer lighting that is both accessible and eco-friendly. We are currently exploring new frontiers in 3D printing, and we invite a talented TU Delft student to join us in this innovative project.

After years of experience serving the healthcare industry through personalised seating products, SEC is now expanding into the logistics market. The objective is to create custom driver seating solutions that tackle the prevalent issue of musculoskeletal discomfort (MSD), improving driver well-being and reducing work absences and operational costs for logistics companies.

The future of aviation depends on achieving growth in a responsible and therefore sustainable way (ICAO). The current opera-onal concepts of airports are stretched, with infrastructure and resources limitations impacting ground movements particularly. We need to work smarter, not build more of the same. THE ASSIGNMENT- is to design the automated Usherbot vehicle which drives in front of an aircraft on the platform area of any airport during any weather circumstance or time of the day, the so-called regulated follow-me process.

Transforming Modular Wheelchair Seating with a Unique Mounting Solution; The Perfect Fit SEC is currently developing a new seating system with advanced positioning possibilities for the orthosis market. This innovative seating system requires a unique mounting solution for manual and powered wheelchairs from the clients portfolio and beyond. The student will begin by understanding the current market solutions and the specific requirements of the ongoing seating system development. They will explore existing solutions and the functionalities of the perspective wheelchairs and ultimately deliver 1-2 creative concept recommendations for a modular mounting solution tailored for adaptability in seating systems Transforming Patients Well-Being with Pressure Relief Seating; The Perfect Fit SEC is developing a new seating system with advanced positioning possibilities for the orthosis market, requiring an innovative cushion solution to provide effective, full-body pressure relief. This cushion must allow for optimal air flow, be durable, and ideally be reusable for long-lasting comfort. The student will begin by researching existing market solutions, human anatomy needs, and specific pressure relief requirements in seating systems. They will ultimately propose one cushion concept with ideal pressure distribution through densities and shape.