Openings

Design students who are interested in working with DIOPD researchers, can participate with a research project. You can either participate in one of the on-going research DIOPD projects, or formulate a new project that fits with the general DIOPD intentions.
With your project, you will get acquainted with setting up, executing, and reporting a research project. Important activities are reading relevant literature, formulating research questions, data collection, data analysis and writing a report or scientific article.

You will be tutored by one or more of the regular DIOPD researchers. Moreover, during your research project, you will be in the DIOPD team: you will get to know the researchers, their research, and additional DIOPD activities. You will compete your research project with a report or a paper.

A research project count as IDE master Elective, and can represent 6, 7, 8, or 9 ECTS.
ID5502 Research 6 ECTS (21 days)
ID5503 Research 7 ECTS (24,5 days)
ID5504 Research 8 ECTS (28 days)
ID5505 Research 9 ECTS (31,5 days)

Three PhD projects on design for mood regulation

From October 2018 onwards, three PhD projects are available in the “design for mood regulation” research project. Job description For these projects, we are looking for three ambitious PhD candidates…

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Library of Interaction Qualities (closed)

Research internship opportunity: Library of Interaction Qualities Emotions like joy, contentment, love, interest, amusement, and pride, are evoked by different eliciting conditions and they also differ in how they influence…

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Effect of Design on Mood

We developed a picture scale that measures mood in a quick and user-friendly way. The aim of this study is to (a) test the test the tool by comparing it…

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Happiness profiles for products

Currently we are working on developing a happiness profiling tool for products. The aim of this tool is to get an indication of the contribution to enduring happiness of a…

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Diversity of Happiness & Diversity of Design

Design for happiness can be targeted to enhance different components of subjective well-being – some are more of hedonic, some more of eudaimonic nature. Furthermore, different roles that design can…

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Tiny-Task – happiness-enhancing product-service system

Tiny-task is a concept for a product service system that aims to enable and inspire people to engage in activities that enhance their happiness. A study has indicated that tiny-task…

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Meaningful Design

We are working on a classification of ways in which design can contribute to well-being. The aim of the study is to collect examples of meaningful products and see how…

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