Emma Heijerman wins Thesis Prize

The Dutch national Hoormij Foundation awards a biennial thesis prize for students from all faculties and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands who have written a master’s thesis in…

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Product Emotion Inspiration Booklet

700+ Product Emotion (inspiration booklet) Think of emotions – what comes first to mind? Perhaps joy, anger, fear, surprise, or love. Indeed, these are some of the emotions that all…

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Telltail: Understanding feline behavior and personality to increase the human-animal bond in order to prevent owner-surrender

Posted on May 30, 2018 in Projects > Student Projects

Overview One of the most enriching relationships of human beings is the relationship between owner and companion-animal, including more specifically the relationship between owner and cat. This project is about…

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Positive Design in Journal of Positive Psychology

In his recurring column in the (Dutch) Journal of Positive Psychology (Tijdschrift Positieve Psychologie), Pieter Desmet describes inspiring well-being-driven products and services designed by students and researchers of the TU…

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Embassy of Youth

Posted on Feb 27, 2018 in Projects > Student Projects

Empowering urban youth to explore and use their talents. Teenagers hanging out on the streets are often assumed to be up to no good. However, their behavior might be misinterpreted.…

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Mapping the creative workspace

Posted on Feb 05, 2018 in Current Projects > Projects > Research Projects

Work and study environments that facilitate creative design processes—so called creative spaces—have gained an increased interest in the past years. The question if, and if yes how the physical environment could…

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Doctoral thesis defence of Jay Yoon

On Thursday 11 January, Jay Yoon successfully defended his thesis ‘Escaping the emotional blur: Design tools for facilitating positive emotional granularity’. The doctoral committee of the thesis was: Prof. Pieter…

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Design Salon on Design + Happiness + Futures

From October 20-22, a dozen invited, international guests from varied disciplines will join members of Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, in Midtown Detroit. Anna Pohlmeyer has…

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Workshop on Body Perspectives

Posted on Jun 19, 2017 in News > News

How do you feel and think about your body characteristics? How do others feel and think about your body characteristics? As we see, exchange and relate to many different people…

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Positive Design Masterclass

Posted on Apr 24, 2017 in Course > Library

DIOPD offers a two-day masterclass on “Design for Emotion and Happiness” for (design) professionals. The masterclass is organised every two years as part of the IDE Master Class series. More…

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Research internship

Posted on Apr 24, 2017 in Course > Library

Design students who are interested in collaborating with DIOPD researchers, can participate with a research internship. More info: http://diopd.org/collaborationsresearch-internships/

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Master thesis project

Posted on Apr 24, 2017 in Course > Library

Design students who want to contribute to the DIOPD knowledge and/or design portfolio can participate with a Master Thesis project. For examples of previous projects, see: http://diopd.org/projects/design-projects/

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ID5564 Design for Emotion

Posted on Apr 15, 2017 in Course > Library

Course Contents This course focuses on emotion-driven design theory and methodology – design processes with a predefined (and specified) intended effect on the emotions of the users. The aim is…

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ID5563 Design for Happiness

Posted on Apr 15, 2017 in Course > Library

Course contents Happiness and human flourishing is a universal human goal, yet, until recently, it has hardly been explicitly incorporated in design. Happiness is understood here as “subjective well-being” that…

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Harnessing the role of meaning in products and services to foster eco-sufficient user behavior

Posted on Sep 23, 2016 in Project Repository > Projects > Research Projects

Since humans are overshooting three of nine planetary boundaries (Rockström et al. 2009), “curbing consumption”  is seen as one of five priorities for sustainable development that focus on human behavior…

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Special Issue on Positive Computing

On July 4, “Psychology of Wellbeing” published a special issue on Positive Computing. For that issue Pieter Desmet acted as guest editor, in collaboration with Rafael Calvo, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, and…

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DIOPD @ DRS conference

Posted on Jun 18, 2016 in News

DIOPD hosted a Positive Design workshop (June 27) at the DRS conference (Brighton, June 27-30). The workshop focused on design for well-being, discussing theory, tools, and techniques. Participants used the material on…

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Designing for Personal and Environmental Wellbeing

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 in Projects > Student Projects

In current behavioural approaches to Design for Sustainability, collectively labelled Design for Sustainable Behaviour (DfSB), the main focus is on “mitigating, controlling or blocking unsustainable or inappropriate behaviour by users”…

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Volkskrant

Volkskrant Magazine, September 26, 2016, no. 751, pp. 62-67 (in Dutch) Link to the magazine: http://bit.ly/1ZYFDR7

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Govert Flint visits DIOPD

On June 23, 2015, Govert Flint, designer of the ‘bionic chair’ and director of the Institute for Applied Motions (Eindhoven, NL) visits the DIOPD. He will give a guest lecture…

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The positive design award

The Positive Design Award Are you a creative? Do you and /or your team design the best new Positive Product? Do you want to win the Joolz Positive Design Award of…

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Happy Cities

On May 20, Pieter Desmet gave a keynote lecture at the Spring Event of the Dutch Regional Science Association. The theme of the event was “Happy Cities.” The event was…

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