Job Information
- Organisation/Company: Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
- Research Field: Engineering » Biomedical engineering; Engineering » Design engineering
Offer Description
Within the MEDAL project (Motivating mEaningful Daily Data collection through Design, AI, and SociaL engagement, https://www.clicknl.nl/en/ontwerpkrachtentransities/medal/), TU/e leads a consortium — including Catharina Hospital, Fashion Tech Farm, and other creative and knowledge partners like Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences — investigating how personal life data, alongside clinical measurements, can find a place in cardiovascular care pathways. The recurring tension here: patients at home need data that is both clinically usable and effortless to fit into daily life. This EngD track works out that tension specifically for the heart failure care pathway.
Assignment
You research and design how contextual data - living patterns, activity, emotional and social signals - can be used alongside physiological measurements to support heart failure patients in self-management at home.
- Co-design workshops with heart failure patients and healthcare professionals at Catharina Hospital to identify data needs and interaction preferences. You can work with the team in the hospital who already redesigned and develop the care pathway.
- Translate these insights into design requirements for data collection, visualization, and feedback.
- Collaborate with Fashion Tech Farm on a tangible, textile-based exploration of what this health data can feel like — a more explorative, conceptual counterpart to the functional prototype, probing wearable and material forms of data experience beyond screens and numbers.
- Develop and iterate a data-driven prototype for home monitoring, working with technology partners like Cardiron.
- Run real-world pilot tests on subjects like usability, clinical relevance, user engagement, and impact on home-based self-management.
Outcome
A validated prototype, embedded in the existing systems in the hospital for participatory home care for heart failure patients, alongside a textile/tangible design exploration developed with Fashion Tech Farm that opens up alternative, more embodied forms of engaging with health data. Together these feed the design principles contributed to the broader MEDAL framework for data interaction in participatory healthcare.
Where to apply
Website: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/363976/engd-in-designing-human-system-interaction/apply/
Requirements
Specific Requirements
- A relevant Master's degree, in an area related to the fields of industrial design, human-computer interaction, or comparable.
- Affinity with healthcare contexts and working with patients and clinicians.
- Experience with co-design and prototyping; interest in material/tangible design or wearables is a plus.
- To be successful in Dutch Healthcare context, to engage with healthcare professionals and patients, speaking Dutch is a preference.
Additional Information
Benefits
A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station.
In addition, we offer you:
- Full-time employment for 2 years.
- Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale TOIO (€ 3.173 gross per month (full-time)).
- In addition to your base salary, you will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus, both calculated based on your annual gross base salary.
- Generous leave options: a standard 29 days (based on a 38 hour working week) per year that you can increase to 41 days by working two hours more per week (flexible working hours). This is prorated if you work part-time.
- As a TU/e employee, you participate in the ABP pension scheme, providing retirement pension and pension benefits for surviving dependents and occupational disability. TU/e pays 70% of the pension premium, while employees contribute the remaining 30%.
- High-quality training programs on general skills, didactics and topics related to research and valorization.
- An excellent technical infrastructure, and on-campus children's day care.
- Unlimited access to the modern on‑campus TU/e Student Sports Center at an exceptionally affordable rate.
- We support your wellbeing with free 24/7 access to OpenUp, providing you and your family with mental health support, expert guidance, and online training.
- Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
- A TU/e Postdoc Association that helps you to build a stronger and broader academic and personal network, and offers tailored support, training and workshops.
- A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates, as are a tax compensation scheme (the Expat Scheme) and a compensation for moving expenses.
On our website you can discover even more information about our conditions of employment. Build on your career at TU/e!
Selection process
We invite you to submit a complete application using the apply-button. The application should include a:
- A cover letter in which you describe your motivation and qualifications for the position.
- A curriculum vitae, including a list of your publications and the contact information of three references. Kindly note that we may reach out to references at any stage of the recruitment process. We recommend notifying your references upon submitting your application.
- Copies of relevant BSc and MSc diplomas and grade transcripts.
- Examples of your work, such as research papers and design portfolios.
- The result of an English proficiency test such as IELTS or TOEFL.
Ensure that you submit all the requested application documents. Please note that incomplete applications may not be considered and could be rejected.
We look forward to receiving your application and will screen it as soon as possible. The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled.
Additional comments
Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more? Please contact the hiring manager Jun Hu (J.Hu@tue.nl), or the consortium colleagues Eva Deckers (eva.deckers@catharinaziekenhuis.nl), Marine Toeters (m.toeters@gmail.com), and Bin Yu (b.yu@hva.nl).
Visit our website for more information about the application process, and about the HSI EngD program.
Are you inspired and would like to know more about working at TU/e? Please visit our career page.
Website for additional job details: https://www.academictransfer.com/363976/
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available: 1
- Company/Institute: TU/e
- Country: Netherlands
- City: Eindhoven
- Postal Code: 5612AZ
- Street: De Zaale
Contact
- City: Eindhoven
- Website: http://www.tue.nl/
- Street: De Rondom 70
- Postal Code: 5612 AP
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