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Have you ever heard of the word karabai? It is Swahili for kerosene lamp. These lamps are widely used in Tanzania – for example during night fishing but are problematic due to kerosene’s explosive nature and the noxious gas that it emits.

With her work on combatting noise and alarm fatigue in hospitals, Elif Özcan-Vieira captured the attention of the New York Times. She was interviewed about her research with the Critical Alarms Lab. The article is out now!

Can a painting be considered ‘art’ if it is constructed by artificial intelligence and painted by a robot? The performance Paintrobot ‘Bob Rob’ posed this question in a German art exhibition that recently took place. With one of the Universal Robots manipulators of the Applied Labs, a multidisciplinary team established a system, which is able to use sensory information, calculate a painting and paint it with different colours.

IDE researchers were awarded the best paper award (second place) in the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), part of the International Geometry Summit 2019. The awarded paper is coauthored by PhD student Tim Kuipers (Ultimaker), and his supervisors Jun Wu and Charlie Wang (promotor).

Marco van der Woude, IDE student (TU Delft) who is taking a master's degree in Strategic Product Design has become BestGraduates winner. He received the prize of € 10,000 and an honorable mention and attention from the Dutch business community. BestGraduates works together with the top employers in the Netherlands. Read the article (in Dutch).

On Wednesday 19 June, assistant professor Anne Kranzbühler from the IDE faculty (TU Delft) received the Best Dissertation Award 2018 from SERVSIG (Service Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association). She has won a prize of $ 1000.