Research fellow projects 2023

The aim of this project is to develop an automated monitoring system that distinguishes wound types and monitors the healing process over time. The motivation comes from the need for wound care monitoring technology for home under clinical supervision. The DesignLab project facilitates the interaction with the clinic for feedback collection and medical specification.

Over the last decade, many efforts have been focused on developing semantic 3D city models for smart city modeling. Such models use various geospatial and remotely sensed information as a basis and go beyond a simple 3D visualization. Although the Digital Twinning (DT) term has recently been used in various domains, there is no commonly accepted definition of Digital Twins in the geospatial domain. 

Rising Waters, Safer Shores started in India, 2019 with the involvement of 40 primary school children in Panju Island, Mumbai. The workshop encouraged children to express themselves through the medium of drawing regarding their perceptions of flood risk. The characters and map they created formed the basis of the board game which was successfully completed and presented during Dutch Design Week 2022. This year, the researchers would like to implement the game in India, where everything started.

This project engages communities in bringing their ‘smart’ city contexts and potential value frictions to life through the co-creation of an open-source DIY scenario-making tool. The objective is to facilitate the use of value frictions as a source of inspiration to jointly envision and shape alternative urban futures. 

One of the most interesting ethical challenges in human-robot interaction is hybrid decision making. From this perspective, it is important to discuss the implications that the cognitive pairing with the robot’s AI and mechanical components has for core human dimensions, such as knowledge, identity, trust, and dependability. In order to help the new generations of students and future professionals understand and address these crucial issues, the applicants have developed a new course.