Radical Improvements in Sustainable Building: Renovation Based on New Forms of Collaboration and Business Models
Jakob Brinkø Berg
This project will show strategic partnerships can be structured in the building industry to facilitate a building renovation process which is faster, generates less waste and produces more energy efficient buildings. It will also show which business models will bes support and enhance these partnerships.
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Designing Systems Visualisations for Decision Support
Agzam Idrissov
This PhD project aims to explore how to design data-driven, interactive visualisations to improve communication between stakeholders and design participants of complex engineering systems.
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Using Systems Visualisations for Decision Support
Andrea Bravo
This PhD project explores how immersive visualisations impact decision making in engineering systems design.
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Listen Care-Fully: Healthcare Design on Listening Effort and Cognitive Functioning
Alix Feldman
This project uses new technology to determine whether increased listening effort is associated with cognitive function, and to investigate how to integrate this new tool at point-of-care in dementia and hearing care. Read more here.setti
Designing sustainable behaviour change to prevent spread of contagious diseases in nursing homes
Carolina Falcao Duarte
This project aims to design behaviour change interventions to promote behaviour paths that reduce the risk of infection and contagion or to add barriers to the performance of infection and contagion risk-related behaviours in the context of nursing homes. Read more here.
Behavioural Design: From analysis to intervention to real world impact
Camilla Bay Brix Nielsen
There is an undeniable increase of behaviour related challenges in society rooted in poor choice of behaviour, and the inability of conventional approaches to tackle them. Two examples are: the increase of diabetes in Denmark and continuous poor compliance of medicine. To tackle challenges like these, technology alone is not enough, as they need to be approached from a behavioural perspective as well; both to understand how and why the undesired behaviour exists, and how it might be changed. Behavioural design has shown to be a promising way of improving solutions dealing with behavioural challenges in society. The project combines designing thinking, together with social and cognitive psychology to develop design methods that support the design phases of behavioural design. Read more here.
AR/VR Interface Design for Rehabilitation with Exoskeleton
Maximilian Wittmann
This project uses VR, AR, and XR to create interactive human-machine interfaces for home-based stroke rehabilitation. It sets out to investigate the potential of digital twins and immersive technologies for sustained behaviour change over time. Read more here.
Innovation in Danish energy companies
Eva Sass Lauritsen
The project is a collaboration between DTU and SEAS-NVE.
Cost Risk Management in Public Construction Projects
Andreas Claus Hansen
The project is a collaboration between DTU and the Danish Building and Property Agency with the aim of developing improved methods for managing cost risk of large construction projects in the context of professional public clients primarily for state governed construction projects. The project focus on tailoring methods of identification, assessment and management of risk for the specific context of the large construction projects. Read more here.
Completed PhD projects:
Sidsel Ernstsen
Nelson Humberto Carreras Guzman
Bzhwen A Kadir
Morten Wied
Pelle Willumsen
Agata Wróbel
Sarah Lasso
Kamilla Kunrath
Nina Koch Ørvad
Verena Stingl
Emil Andersen
Sebastiano Piccolo
Julia Thorpe
Miroslava Tegeltija
Baris Bekdik
Simone Nyholm
Poul Ebbesen
Pedro Parraguez
A Networked Perspective on the Engineering Design Process: At the intersection of process and organisation architectures
Pedro Parraguez; concluded August 2015
Adding Value to Facility Management through IT
Poul Ebbesen; concluded April 2016
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Participatory Simulation: Ergonomics evaluation in design of healthcare work systems
Simone Nyholm; concluded December 2016
Involvement of workers in simulation and design of their own future work system has the potential of revealing future ergonomics problems before the work system design is implemented.
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Improving Quality and Productivity in Construction by Reusing Similarities in Products, Processes and Organizations
Baris Bekdik; concluded March 2017
This research project seeks to improve quality and productivity in the fragmented project based environment of the construction industry, by exploring how similarities (e.g. modularity) in products, processes and project organizations can be leveraged in construction projects.
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Assessing the Capabilities of Advanced Risk Methods for Engineering Systems Management
Miroslava Tegeltija
This project aims to support decision making under uncertainty in large-scale engineering systems. Advanced risk management methods that can better deal with uncertainty that exists due to a lack of knowledge are explored.
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Engineering Systems Design in Healthcare
Julia Rosemary Thorpe
Smart wearables are capable of both supporting people with dementia and generating data about their behaviour. This project explores how this could be leveraged in a connected care system to enable active ageing. Read more here.
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Visual Modelling of Complex Engineering Systems
Sebastiano Piccolo
This project will shed light on the design process describing the emerging patterns of communication between designers emerging social communities in the companies, and relations between working activities.
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Visual Communication Design for Decision Making in Emergency Situations
Emil Andersen
The purpose of this project is to map the psychological mechanisms that are crucial for decision making in emergency situations and to translate them to guidelines for researchers, operators and designers alike.
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Deciding under uncertainty: improving risk management practices in engineering projects
Verena Stingl
Decisions are influenced by numerous effects known to cognitive and behavioural science. This project explores how these effects impact decision behaviour in real world engineering projects.
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Radical Innovation in Sustainable Building: Opportunities in the Built Environment due to the Need for Sustainable Transitions
Nina Koch-Ørvad
This project will contribute to the societal sustainable transition with a specific focus on construction by developing a collection of sense making tools that enable the actors within the built environment to create radically more innovative and sustainable buildings
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Analysis of the role of designers' self identity and behaviour of design teams for performance improvement
Kamila Kunrath
Uncertainty perception in product innovation projects
Sarah Venturi Lasso
Creativity workshop facilitation in the business context
Agata Wróbel
Lean Risk Management in Engineering Projects
Pelle Lundquist Willumsen
Risk management became a victim of its own success and is often implemented as a ‘tick-the-box’ exercise even though it is crucial for project success. This PhD project researches how to re-conceptualize risk management from a stakeholder value perspective to make it value adding, efficient and effective.
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Robust Decision Making for the Management of Large Engineering Projects
Morten Wied
Many large engineering projects underperform or fail. This project seeks to increase success rates by making projects more robust and adaptable to unpredictable events. The project extends the concept of resilience from the operation of technical systems to their design and implementation.
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Designing New Ways of Working in Industry 4.0
Bzwhen A Kadir
The purpose of this project is to investigate how technology, organisation, and human behaviour can be aligned in the design of Industry 4.0 production systems in order to enhance collaboration between production and product development.
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Healthcare Design for Collaborative Care
Julie Falck Valentin-Hjorth
With a starting point in hypertension, this research project aims to investigate how technology and services in collaborative healthcare can be designed in such a way that digital and human-centered treatment models can ensure better and more effective treatment. Read more here.
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Identification of Safety and Security Cascading Risks in Cyber-Physical Systems
Nelson Humberto Carreras Guzman
This research project will provide a methodology to identify and analyse potential cascading failures in Cyber-Physical Systems, enhancing the risk assessment process with a holistic framework integrating accidents and malicious attacks.
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Disruptive Technologies in Design
Sidsel Katrine Ernstsen
This project explores how disruptive technologies may affect the construction industry. This includes a cross-industrial assessment of new technologies and the development of business models to utilize the potential of applying disruptive technologies in design.
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