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Automated Mobility Lab

Design for our entanglements with automated mobility

Cardio Lab

Smart technologies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases

Circular Design Lab

Innovation in design for circular economy

Critical Alarms Lab

The future of alarms and soundscapes in socio-technological environments

Connected Creativity Lab

Exploring creative behaviour, processes and skills in innovation

Data-Centric Design Lab

Designing with behavioural data, together.

End of Life Lab

Contributing to the quality of life in its last stage

Entrepreneurship Lab

Entrepreneurial behaviour within design and innovation

Human-Robot Interaction Lab

Shaping the future of AI in a human-centred and impact-driven way

Food & Eating Design Lab

Creating healthy and sustainable food solutions

Future Libraries Lab

Design for meaning making in libraries

Inclusive Design Lab

Promoting inclusive everyday interactions through design and research

Inclusive Global Health Lab

Creating Access to Healthcare for All

Museum Futures Lab

Innovation in design for circular economy

Participatory City Making Lab

Exploring new approaches of design in the public realm

Pictorial Research Lab

Where eyes, machines and culture meet

Play Well Lab

Designing children’s flourishing in and through play

Seamless Personal Mobility Lab

Designing our future personal mobility services

Systemic Design Lab

Generating systemic change within society through design
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Sponsors and Partners

Contributing to the Critical Alarms Lab with support, knowledge and opportunities.

PROJECT PARTNER

The project PaDS – Participatory Designing with Sound, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action under grant agreement No. 893622, supports us in developing sound-inclusive methodology and co-design knowledge on designing sound for complex systems. Together we disseminate a design culture on the world of audible and vibrations.

Design United

SPONSOR

Design United sponsored the CareTunes project and allows for graduation projects related to the topic of harmonizing alarm sounds and information interpretation.

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Plymouth University Cognition Institute

SPONSOR

Research collaboration with Judy Edworthy, Professor of Applied Psychology at Plymouth University Cognition Institute on alarm design for international standards of intensive care.

NewCompliance

PROJECT PARTNER

New Compliance collaborates within the Silent ICU projects on the subject of OR and ICU digital information systems. The projects run in collaboration with the Erasmus Medical Center.

 

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St. Gallen Geriatrische Klinik

PROJECT PARTNER

The St. Gallen Geriatrische Klinik in Switzerland collaborated with Delft University of Technology on graduation and embodiment design projects related to remote alarm design both for geriatric patients and nurses.

Quietyme

PROJECT PARTNER

Quietyme provides us with their expertise in hospital noise reduction for the Silent ICU initiative; in particular for one of our graduation projects about a persuasive system which can be seen as the extension of Quietyme.

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VanBerlo

PROJECT PARTNER

Besides our collaboration for the contextual research during the development of CareTunes, VanBerlo gave us a stage at the Embassy of Health exhibition, Dutch Design Week 2018. The abundance of critical alarms was shown towards the broader public.