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Scenario-Based Design with Care Organisations

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Adaptive Architecture: the Robotic Orchestration of a Healthy Workplace

Design , Experience , Interaction

Making room for autism at work

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Minds at work – a mixed method approach to assess the effect of indoor nature for healthy organizations

Experience , Inclusion , Interaction

picture of kitchen by Anna Syla, unsplash

Material Space & Homemaking: Experiences of Adult Third Culture Kids

Design , Experience , Inclusion

A Situated Data Visualization shows Analytical Sports Statistics on a Public Display

Expression , Interaction

‘Folding’ a Virtual Reality Environment to Enable Natural Walking in Physical Reality

Design , Expression , Interaction

Craft-Inspired Robotic Fabrication Makes Intricate Material Expressions that cannot be Digitally Modelled

Design , Fabrication , Interaction

A Robotic Wall Adapts an Interior Architectural Layout

Design , Experience , Expression , Interaction

Similarity in Difference: Bridging Universalism and Particularism in Design through Resonance

Design , Inclusion

BUILD CARE: Building Support for Children & Families Affected by Stroke

Design , Experience , Inclusion

TouchTomb: a Tangible Installation Gamifies Cultural Learning in a Museum

Design , Experience , Interaction

Co-gnito: a Participatory Physicalization Game for Mental Mapping Urban Environments

Design , Expression , Interaction

Learning from innovative care architecture to design for humane detention

Design , Experience , Inclusion

view of a nurse taking care of a Covid patient in a hospital

Spatially separating Covid from non-Covid

Design , Inclusion

picture of a cat under a car

What makes a city child-friendly?

Experience , Inclusion

view of an individual room in a very intensive care centre

Room for people with challenging behaviour

Design , Experience , Inclusion

enable² – enabling the building sector to create enabling spaces

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Alternative briefing techniques to design a humanitarian hub

Design , Experience , Inclusion

User experience of a prison house

Design , Experience , Inclusion

A new home for refugees in Flanders

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Morphological innovation of the loggia for urban resilience to climate change

Design , Experience , Inclusion

How to design activating healthcare buildings?

Design , Experience , Interaction

Experiencing versus measuring indoor environmental quality

Design , Experience

The In-Situ Projection Mapping of Architectural Heritage Information

Expression , Interaction

Emergent Qualities of Robotic Architecture Fabrication

Fabrication , Interaction

Health Visualization on Tangible Displays

Expression , Interaction

Displaying Data-Driven Feedback during Mass Events

Expression , Interaction

Citizen Dialog Kit

Expression , Interaction

Towards an Inclusive Approach to Built Heritage Values

route to the gallery, photo by Boudewijn Bollmann

A Multi-Sensory Design Approach in Architecture

Design , Experience , Expression , Inclusion

Room for vulnerability

Architectural design In Dialogue with disAbility (AIDA)

collage showing a student visiting a student restaurant

Rent-a-Spatialist

Housing design which supports independent living for autistic people

QualiCraft

MUURmelaar: an Interactive Sound-based Media Facade with Architectural Value

Expression , Interaction

Robotic Fabrication Masterclass and Symposium

Expression , Fabrication

An Augmented Reality Interface for Communicating Egyptian Heritage in a Museum

Expression , Interaction

Conveying a Local Civic Issue via Spatially Distributed Public Visualization Displays

Expression , Interaction

Wayfinding via Consecutive and Synchronized Public Displays

Combining Touch, Mid-Air Gesture and Floor Mat Interaction on Public Displays

The Architectural Qualities of Media Architecture

Expression , Interaction

Information Augmented Basketball Jersey

Narrative Data Visualization on Public Displays

Expression , Interaction

The Socio-Demographic Inequality of Crowdsourced Civic Participation

Expression , Inclusion

Analysing Urban Twitter Messages

Expression , Inclusion

The Agency of Designers, Users and Artefacts in Architectural Design

Inclusion , Interaction

Building support

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Just design

An Anthropological Inquiry by Design towards Improving Indoor Air quality within Hospital Settings

How do disabled architects design?

Design , Experience , Inclusion , Interaction

Designing Experience-Rich Architecture

The experience of lying.

Offering Architects Insights into Living with Dementia

Design , Experience , Inclusion

Neighborhood Infographics

Expression , Interaction

Neighborhood Energy Scoreboards

Expression , Interaction

Interactive Urban Street Interfaces

Uncovering How People Approach Interactive Installations

Care(ful) Research for Care(ful) Design

Articulating user experience in architects’ knowing: Tailoring scenario-based design to architecture

Interactive Public Display for Bicyclists

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