Supervisors: Prof. Regina Bernhaupt (TU/e), and Prof. Laurene Vaughan (RMIT)
Project 1: Interactive Materials for Society
Interactive Materials enable new user interaction as they enrich users’ senses (changing colours or shape). Combining data-driven design processes and visualizing societal related information to different stakeholders is key of this technical PhD topic. With cases studies from Philips Design from the domain of health care the goal is to investigate how to show societal relevant information (e.g., successfully treated patients in the city) in interactive material-based design solutions.
Project 2: A Design Framework for Interactive Materials
Develop a design framework for interactive materials and how to enhance user experience with such approaches in medical settings (Philips Design). A series of design solutions will be used to validate the framework to contribute to the general understanding of how to design for multi-stakeholder user experiences with interactive materials.
Project 3: Evaluation frameworks for Interactive Materials
Interactive Material will be deployed in the next generation of multi-stakeholder software solutions to contribute to a societal change. How such solutions that are designed for society in general can be evaluated in terms of user experience is still unclear. Goal of this PhD is to set first steps in the development of an evaluation framework of interactive materials, building on recent understanding how such solutions (e.g. Covid-19 apps) have failed to support society to tackle problems.
