From the onset of the Corona crisis, a specific policy challenge was identified in the Netherlands: How to motivate young people to adhere to the behavioral measures, such as physical distancing? Young people have an important role to play in stopping the virus from spreading, but they may be more difficult …

Research about design cognition acknowledges the importance of knowledge about exiting solutions. Designers tend to employ solution oriented thinking strategies; they generate idea’s starting from initial solutions - called primary generators; they are known to rely on episodic knowledge and precedent …

The theoretical framework of this dissertation is based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach (Chapter 2). In the early 1980s, development economist Amartya Sen developed the capability framework as a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment …

The main purpose of this final thesis project was to investigate how The Hague University of Applied Sciences can improve the university website according to the users’ viewpoint. To achieve this objective, a thorough review of the literature on the multidimensional concept of website quality, previous …

A number of studies have investigated the possibility of extending Electric Vehicle (EV) Lithium-ion battery life by deliberately choosing to store the battery at a low to moderate state of charge. Recently, there has been considerable interest shown in the scheme of a deliberate discharge and subsequent …

Digitalisation of society is a trend that increasingly impacts various sectors of society like healthcare, education, finance, and government. This digitalisation does not only create new technological developments but also impacts society and its traditional structure, institutions, and organizations. …

Effectuation is a theory originating in the literature of entrepreneurship, that focuses on behavioral attitudes of founders of multiple companies with over 15 years of experience and proven superior performance, so-called expert entrepreneurs. It includes a set of decision-making principles that these …

The Urban Gaming studio aims to challenge that by not defining the brief priory (no program, no objectives, no site boundaries). Instead it emphasizes that a client or clients should be sought for, that multiple voices or stakeholders are needed and that a strategy is required to incorporate their needs …

To elucidate how authoritative knowledge is established for better dealing with unstructured urban problems, this article describes how collaborations between researchers and officials become an instrument for conceptualizing and addressing policy problems. A case study is used to describe a research …

We will illustrate and discuss how Living Labs can be used to address so called wicked problems in Delta Areas. We will specifically address the role of students and research in this concept. Participants are challenged by questions and are also asked to think whether and how they could take part in …