UX Design and Co-Creation Workshops for Future GazeTalk Development
This project focuses on user experience (UX) design and co-creation workshops to explore future development directions for GazeTalk — an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and aphasia rehabilitation system currently in pilot development at DTU. While the current system demonstrates how communication, training, and monitoring can be integrated into a unified interface, several key areas remain to be explored, particularly related to adaptive interaction, personalization, and the role of AI in interaction design.
The goal of this project is to investigate and prototype future UX directions for GazeTalk through structured workshops with relevant stakeholders (e.g., therapists, patients, and supporters). More specifically, the project should:
- Review the current GazeTalk design and identify key open challenges based on existing prototypes and reports
- Design and conduct co-creation workshops with therapists and (if possible) users to explore future interaction concepts
- Investigate how adaptive mechanisms (e.g., fatigue-aware interaction) can be translated into clear and usable interface behavior
- Explore personalization strategies based on long-term user data, including communication patterns and rehabilitation progress
- Examine how AI-driven interaction can be made more interpretable and trustworthy from a user perspective
- Explore the design of dynamic and personalized icon systems, including the use of AI to generate icons based on user context (e.g., age, culture, preferences)
- Develop and evaluate UX prototypes (e.g., in Figma) that integrate selected future directions into coherent interaction concepts
This project builds on recent UX design work in GazeTalk, where dashboards for patients, therapists, and supporters have been developed to reduce cognitive load and support adaptive interaction. The student will extend this work by focusing on future-oriented design exploration grounded in real user needs and workshop-based insights. The project will be supervised by postdoctoral researcher Ekky Tammarar Alfian and co-supervised by Prof. John Paulin Hansen. This project can be formulated into a Master thesis/Bachelor thesis/student project. The project is expected to start in the Fall semester 2026 (negotiable).
Thesis type: UX design and qualitative study with prototyping
Technical skills: Interaction design; prototyping (e.g., Figma); workshop facilitation
Research skills: Human-Computer Interaction; User-centered design; Qualitative methods
Educational background: Human-Centered Informatics, Digital Design, Interaction Design, or related fields
ECTS credits: MSc thesis / BSc thesis / Special course (5 or 10 ECTS)
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By working on the project, you will be part of a team aiming to improve lives for stroke patients!