I want my thesis to …
I want my thesis to be an exploration into a topic that will increase my knowledge of service and product design. What motivates me is if the user of the service or product is one that is
In someway in need of my work and as a group could be short of resources.
My thesis should give me a reference point from which I can start work life as an employee or intern. I want my thesis to be well documented and showcase my skills into the discipline of Interaction Design along with my personal interests and drive.

I’m interested in/inspired by…
The area of eldercare represents a growing part of the Danish populace that in my opinion is marginalized and under funded. Our investigations showed that a lot of steps could be made to improve the daily lives in the elderly homes.
My thesis will take its starting point in an investigation into the life of the elderly stricken with dementia or Alzheimer’s. What is the current treatment that is offered to these people? What is the official strategy to battle this decease and preserve quality of life for those stricken? My goal is to identify the needs of the person/patient and to look into the ways of which more could be done.
Two possible topics:

1. I will use the project “Familiar things” as a case study and if it makes sense after the initial investigation to take this project into the next faze looking at ways of improving / shaping the product.

2. The current medication being offered to Alzheimer patients are doubling their mortality rate. At the same time organizing funerals for elders without kind is a very costly affair for the elderly homes. This road will take a service design oriented approach to the topic.

During my thesis I would like to challenge myself in…
I would like to challenge myself in areas such as graphic design and visualisation. I intent to work with different ways of presenting my data and communicating my ideas using tools such as video prototyping, posters and I will work with GUI where it makes sense. I will further challenge myself into the topics that I am more comfortable with such as ethnography and concept development trying to go as broad as I can before narrowing my focus. If the thesis takes me into product/GUI design I will also be looking into flash programming.