In this paper we investigate the expression of emotions through mediated touch. Participants used the Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch (TaSST), a wearable sleeve that consists of a pressure sensitive input layer, and a vibration motor output layer, to record a number of expressions of discrete emotions. …

In dit afstudeerverslag is het onderzoek opgenomen naar de invoering van Cloud Computing bij Group IT - International Systems (INTS). Naar aanleiding van de noodzaak van de afdeling INTS om haar producten en diensten goedkoper aan te kunnen bieden aan de klant is vanuit PostNL de vraag naar voren gekomen …

Deze scriptie is geschreven naar aanleiding van de afstudeeropdracht "Adviseren over de toekomstige inrichting van de server based computing omgeving, rekening houdend met flexibele groei". Het toekomstige advies stelt ingrijpende veranderingen voor om te migreren van het Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) …

Deze afstudeerscriptie genaamd 'Cloud Computing Bij De Gemeente Nijmegen', gestart 1 februari 2012, hebben wij in opdracht van de gemeente Nijmegen uitgevoerd ter afronding van de studie Geodesie/Geo-Informatie aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar de behoefte aan cloud computing bij …

Telehomecare is one of the technological solutions used by older persons to remain living at home in their own community. A selection of 85 Dutch telehomecare projects was examined in terms of the barriers to their implementation. Three categories of telehomecare technologies were distinguished: (i) …

The use of the word “social” in the context of information technology goes back to the very beginnings of cybernetics. It later pops up in the 1980s context of “groupware.” The recent materialist school of Friedrich Kittler and others dismissed the use of the word “social” as irrelevant fluff – what …

Existing research on the recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) from simple sensor networks assumes that only a single person is present in the home. In real life there will be situations where the inhabitant receives visits from family members or professional health care givers. In such cases …

Game development businesses often choose Lua for separating scripted game logic from reusable engine code. Lua can easily be embedded, has simple interfaces, and offers a powerful and extensible scripting language. Using Lua, developers can create prototypes and scripts at early development stages. However, …

In order for techniques from Model Driven Engineering to be accepted at large by the game industry, it is critical that the effectiveness and efficiency of these techniques are proven for game development. There is no lack of game design models, but there is no model that has surfaced as an industry …

The project discussed in this paper is aimed at increasing people’s understanding of the existence and desired workings of ambient technology in the home by demonstrating its potential. For this purpose, an interactive dollhouse is presented. The dollhouse, a miniature model of a sensor-equipped home, …