IDP-X Archive
Each semester starts with a new challenge. The projects below illustrate the range of concepts developed by interdisciplinary IDP-X teams.
Winter 2025
A dynamic cushion with pressure sensors detects static sitting in desk workers and provides gentle vibrations to encourage movement. This subtle haptic feedback helps reduce the negative effects of prolonged sitting without disrupting daily work routines.
Team members: Arkaprabha Gupta, Lukas Hennecke, Omar Bahaji and Yan-Tung Poon.
A Smart Communication Cube that enables simple, symbol-based two-way communication between children and parents working from home. Children can express basic needs while parents respond asynchronously without interrupting their workflow.
Team members: Lisa-Maria Fellinger, Audrey Hartmann, Teodora Petrovic, Paulina Seidl and Mario Weigl.
SENSA is an ambient device that helps users maintain focus by responding to rising stress with rhythmic light and gentle haptic breathing cues. A companion app is used only for personalisation, ensuring a distraction-free experience during deep work sessions.
Team members: Antonia Fruth, Mertkan Kaça, Christopher Schonert and Lisa Seidel.
A mobile application that integrates physical activity into desk-based daily routines. Using object scanning and computer vision, the app suggests exercises adapted to the user’s environment.
Team members: Nico Daffner, Hawbir Kwekha Mohammed, Lukas Preuß and Matthias Reiter.
CubeWorks is a tangible device that guides users through short, structured micro-breaks using light, haptic feedback and voice cues. It encourages psychological detachment from work and supports recovery.
Team members: Veronica Hartl, Abdulrahman Hassan, Marsida Topuzi and Yaru Wang.
A hybrid system combining a digital app with a physical companion to support structure, boundary-setting and information management during the transition to working life.
Team members: Julia Wärle, Cecilia Born, Linda Pähland, Victoria Rein and Gerard Lilipaly.
Summer 2025
How can smart solutions help people integrate work and private life without unnecessary friction?
A transformable home-office concept designed to create a clearer physical boundary between work and private life. The workspace can be moved out of sight after the workday to support psychological detachment.
An AI-supported concept for teachers that turns spoken notes into structured documentation and supports smoother handovers when classes need substitute teachers.
A recovery-oriented concept for healthcare workers combining mobility routines, voice interaction and tangible interaction to support decompression after demanding shifts.
A mobile office concept that treats train travel as usable work time and explores how comfort, connectivity and spatial design can make business travel more productive.
Winter 2024
How can older people benefit more easily and confidently from what technology has to offer?
A hands-free reminder system designed to support everyday routines with simple visual cues, voice alerts and remote caregiver support.
A set of tactile and visually differentiated stickers intended to make buttons and controls on modern household appliances easier to recognise and operate.
Summer 2024
A compact bathroom waste-bin concept using a mechanical press to increase capacity and encourage correct waste disposal.
A reusable-container refill and delivery concept intended to reduce single-use grocery packaging through a closed-loop service model.
Winter 2023
A robust learning environment that helps inexperienced users practise spatial movement, coordinates and control-panel interaction before working with robots.
A privacy-transparency concept inspired by browser cookie controls, designed to make robot data collection and connectivity more visible and controllable.
Earlier Semesters
Earlier IDP-X cohorts addressed challenges including campus community, inclusive shopping, sustainable campus life, stress reduction, access to culture and equal opportunities at work.