Everyone deserves a nice meal during their work hours and in the evenings after a hard working day. However, today’s truck drivers must lean over, hold their hot lunch box in their hands or improvise while eating their meals. This master thesis aims to optimize the eating experience for truck drivers. Discovering their frustrations and needs through extensive user studies.

This project started with discovering the context and focusing on understanding the current needs and frustrations. Various techniques and methods including literature review, benchmarking, interviews and probes were executed to enhance this knowledge and create an understanding of the current scenario. The second phase was about creating solutions by sketching, brainstorming and performing workshops together with the actual users, truck drivers. Where the users also had input through a survey on which table concept to choose and develop in the last step of this project.

The final step was to create a prototype to test and discover problems and aspects to change. Of the concept CabMate a table that easily can be attached to the armrest and adjusted accordingly to the user’s desires. Where the height of the table, closeness to the body and placement of the table were the biggest problems during the user tests. This was improved and resulted in a concept that was adjusted and refined to fit the user and their needs. Along with recommendations for future work which mainly consist of further testing and focusing on the driver's needs and safety.  To enhance their eating experience creating a pleasant environment for the drivers to work and live.