PhD topics for research students
Find below a list of currently available self-funded PhD topics.
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Description
Supervisor
Funding
Design for meaning
Problem Statement
With the increasing availability of affordable products, systems and services the attention of architects and designers is turning more-and-more to the properties of 鈥渆xperience鈥� and...
Self Funded
Design fictions
Problem Statement
With the dramatically increasing rate of technological and societal change it is becoming more-and-more difficult to estimate future trends and to design complex systems which take m...
Self Funded
Trust In Autonomous Vehicles
Problem Statement
Several recent research studies have suggested that 鈥渓ack of trust鈥� is one of the major factors which is slowing the commercial introduction of autonomous vehicles. While the technol...
Self Funded
Naturalness of autonomous vehicles
Problem Statement
Naturalness and simplicity are well known prerequisites of success in product, system and service design. Autonomous vehicles have, however, few precedents in human history and are t...
Self Funded