Seat Comfort Objectification: A new approach to objectify the seat comfort

The seat is the largest contact area between a human and the car. Optimizing this contact area is therefore highly relevant for long termcustomer satisfaction. The share of the total production costs for the interior can be between 20% - 30% of which almost 40% is for the seats. The current literature of seat research ismostly on the properties...

Design Inquiry Through Data

The emergence of the internet and subsequent massive data collection and storage is creating vast opportunities for design research and practice. In this dissertation, we investigate the interrelationship between design and data science practices and explore data as a new creative lens for design inquiry. While digital data has been increasingly...