Knowledge and Intelligence Design (KInD) is a human-centered and multi-disciplinary research group based at Sustainable Design Engineering department of the Industrial Design Engineering faculty, Delft University of Technology.
KInD focuses on the relationship between the science and practice of design, and the digital technology that fuels intelligent products, services, and systems.
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Design in the Digital Age
Individuals, organisations and society are taking advantage of computing power to crunch data and automate decision-making. This trend is opening up many new possibilities – from social robots to digital infrastructures for intelligent cities and health-care systems. But it also poses complex questions for designers. Questions around bias, fairness, transparency, and contestability in automated decision making. Questions about the emerging relationship between people and automated devices. The Knowledge and Intelligence Design (KInD) researches these – and many more – questions.
Intelligent tools and methods
KIND’s work leads to new tools and methods for designing, understanding and controlling knowledge- and intelligence-centric product-service systems (PSS). By integrating research in design with research in data science, Internet of Things, machine learning, human-computer interaction, spatial analysis, and crowd computing, KInD aims to unlock the potential of digital materials – to ​​design and engineer intelligent PSSs that are robust, meaningful, intelligible, accessible, and inclusive.
The scientific work conducted by members of the KInD group contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
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News and Updates
- [September 15, 2023] | CTwalk Map—Measuring and evaluating co-accessibility: New tool shows accessibility of public areas for different population groups. Featured here.
- [June 20, 2023] | Urban Analytics Lab researchers published and presented three papers at the AGILE 2023 and CUPUM 2023 International Conferences. Read the AGILE paper here and the CUPUM papers here and here.
- [May 25, 2023] | Vasileios Milias and Roos Teeuwen lead the workshop on “What Factors Impact Access to Public Spaces and for Whom?“, with the support of the American Planning Association. Read here.
- [May 25, 2023] | Roos Teeuwen and Vasileios Milias present CTwalk Map and how to map walking accessibility of different population groups at the National Program for Sustainable Digital Information Management Demo Day. Read here.
- [May 15, 2023] | Dr. Achilleas Psyllidis spoke at Stanford University’s “Designing for Future Mobility” symposium on pedestrian accessibility and was part of an IDE delegation to develop research and education partnerships with UC Berkeley, Stanford University, UC Davis, and MIT. Read the blog here.
- [May 8, 2023] | Roos Teeuwen and Achilleas Psyllidis publish a short news article on measuring greenspace accessibility. Read here.
- [April 26, 2023] | Dr. Achilleas Psyllidis speaks at MIT’s City Form Lab on unlocking new measurements of pedestrian accessibility and how to factor human experiences into these metrics.
- [April 26, 2023] | Alejandra Gomez Ortega and Jacky Bourgeois co-organise the CHI '23 SIG on Data as Human-Centred Material. Read here.
- [April 18, 2023] | Dr. Achilleas Psyllidis speaks at the Healthy City Conference in Rotterdam about reframing how we measure access to greenspaces for all. More info.
- [March 15, 2023] | Vasileios Milias gives an invited talk at TU Delft’s CityAI Lab on computational methods for assessing accessibility.
- [February 7, 2023] | Wo Meijer published in ETIS ’22: Destructive Feedback: a user created strategy for collecting user feedback in shared systems. Read here.
- [January 26, 2023] | The paper ” HybridEval: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Evaluating Design Ideas at Scale” from our alumni Sepideh Mesbah and colleagues from the WIS Delft group has been accepted at the 2023 Web Conference.
- [January 24, 2023] | Five full papers from KInD members have been accepted at the premier HCI conference ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023.
- [January 22, 2023] | Two papers from KInD members have been accepted at the IUI 2023 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
- [January 16, 2023] | New Project: “Our Smart Family Buddy” consortium meeting. Read more here.
- [January 13, 2023] | Jeroen Schunselaar successfully graduated presenting his MSc thesis. Read the thesis here.
- [January 12, 2023] | Sinyoung Ann graduated, defending her thesis Towards Designedly Data Donation in Practice. Read here.
- [January 10, 2023] | Roos Teeuwen, Dr. Achilleas Psyllidis, and Prof. Alessandro Bozzon publish article in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Read here.
- [December 22, 2022] | Collaboration with Erasmus MC to support cancer patient, funded by KWF. Read more here.
- [November 29, 2022] | Mina Foosherian from BIBA presented our COALA work in MUM 2022 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Read more here.
- [November 7–10, 2022] | Dr. Evangelos Niforatos and Prof. Gerd Kortuem hosted the “12th International Conference on the Internet of Things” at IDE, TU Delft. Read more here.
- [October 8, 2022] | Alejandra Gomez Ortega, Jacky Bourgeois, Gerd Kortuem published in NordiCHI'22 Reconstructing Intimate Contexts through Data Donation: A Case Study in Menstrual Tracking Technologies. Read the full paper here.
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