How can smart technology support people with mild-moderate dementia to benefit from the positive effects of listening to music in daily life? The quality of life of people with dementia decreases rapidly when they experience difficulties in using everyday products and lose initiative⁠. With a focus on …

In dit evaluatieonderzoek wordt het prototype van de ETAC Community toegelicht en geëvalueerd. Het ontwerpen en evaluatie van dit concept is uitgevoerd met behulp van community builders, eindgebruikers en experts uit het ecosysteem. Daarbij is er ook literatuuronderzoek verricht.

Promoting healthy and active lifestyles is an important objective for many governing agencies. The design of active urban environments can be an effective tool to encourage more active behaviors and water features can attract people, improving their experience of the urban space. To explore the potential …

Behaviour Change Support Systems (BCSS), already running for the 10th time at Persuasive Technology, is a workshop that builds around the concept of systems that are specifically designed to help and support behaviour change in individuals or groups. The highly multi-disciplinary nature of designing …

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The number of applications in which industrial robots share their working environment with people is increasing. Robots appropriate for such applications are equipped with safety systems according to ISO/TS 15066:2016 and are often referred to as collaborative robots (cobots). Due to the nature of human-robot …

Often collected data sets contain more personal information than needed for a certain purpose. According to privacy laws and regulations the personal data in a data set should be minimized only to the data that are required and allowed for a chosen (legitimate) data usage. Statistical Disclosure Control …

Service robots provide retailers with new opportunities to innovate their in-store service offerings. Despite advances made in the fields of human-robot interaction, information systems, and marketing, there is relatively little known about how to apply a service robot in retailing. In this paper we …

Poster. Tidal flats and salt marshes are disappearing at alarming rates. The Dutch government has initiated a project to reverse this trend in the Western Scheldt estuary by interventions that stimulate the development of low dynamic intertidal zones along its flanks. The construction of new groynes …

The current Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of urban public spaces in achieving health and social well-being (Dobson, 2021; Poortinga et al., 2021), prompting policymakers and urban planners to rethink their approach to the design of these spaces. They now propagate adapting urban public …