Dasha Ilina’s video work Advice Well Taken: Folk Tales of Digital Savation uses the ‘techlore’ concept to find out what ‘urban legends’ are in the age of smartphones. You can watch the ‘director’s cut’ of the video installation here. You can also have a look at a selection of the catalogue here. The …

How is an academic philosopher, humanities researcher, or scientist with an interest in philosophy able to imagine, understand and reproduce a philosophical theory that’s highly abstract in a way, because the theory is a priory by nature and doesn’t use a lot of examples that relate to daily life? For …

In this report you can read about the pear simulator developed for Riwo as part of my graduation assignment. It gives a description of the company and the end user. It also goes through the design phases, testing, and obstacles throughout the project. Finally it will go into detail about the automated …

Hoofdstuk uit boek. Samenvatting van de hoofdtitel: Hoe kun je wetenschappelijk onderzoek doen dat direct een bijdrage levert aan de praktijk? Dat is de centrale vraag van dit boek. De auteurs presenteren een aanpak waarin ontwerpen en onderzoeken zijn gecombineerd. Deze methodologie levert niet alleen …

Welcome to the Collaboration for Impact magazine (CfI). This magazine shows the added value of applying design research in, with and beyond the creative industry. The stories presented here are witnesses of the fact that multiple value creation urgently needs discipline and boundary crossing collaboration. …

The goal of the Bubble Games consortium is to narrow the gap between opposing groups and bring back nuance, tolerance and empathy in debates on social issues. We believe, and previous projects indicate, that using Virtual Reality (VR) can help create - or bring back - understanding between opposing groups. …

Many nature-based solutions are seen as favourable and effective measures to increase urban resilience during more extreme weather events, by for example decrease high temperatures in summer. Since space is often scarce in urban environments, roofs have received increased attention in mitigating the …

Media literacy is an important element in countering the harmful effects of dis- and misinformation. To date, the main perspective on media literacy can be described as a ‘liberalist’ view of media literacy, focused on the nature and source of individual messages (Phillips and Milner, 2021). In this …

It is crucial that ASR systems can handle the wide range of variations in speech of speakers from different demographic groups, with different speaking styles, and of speakers with (dis)abilities. A potential quality-of-service harm arises when ASR systems do not perform equally well for everyone. ASR …