In this paper, we present and discuss Ivy, a critical artifact offering a novel design perspective on interventions that aim to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers. Ivy is an interactive office chair that represents the amount of sitting time through growing ivy strands. Using the matrix of common …

This paper is a discussion paper to support an Erasmus+ project with the name Common European Numeracy Framework (CENF) (for adults) which will start at the end of the year 2018. In the first months of 2019 the team with participants from The Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Ireland will be in the process …

Dit rapport behandelt het onderzoek in de bloembollensector waar formaline werd toegepast tijdens een warmwaterbehandeling voor de lelie. Formaline is een reinigingsmiddel voor het bestrijden van schimmel, bacteriën en nematoden tijdens het kookproces. Sinds 2013 is formaline verboden en zal de ondernemer …

Abundant HCI research exists on the many assistive technologies that provide help with everyday physical and cognitive tasks. However, while a purely assistive approach often casts aging people in passive roles, recent studies suggest that adults may be ‘flourishing’ way into advanced age, even though …

In this paper we briefly introduce the Capability Approach (CA) and focus on its opportunities for social work practice and research. As the CA is purposively underspecified, we provide theoretical handles for operationalization by pointing to four topics particularly relevant to social work theory: …

In het nieuwe Handboek Systeemtherapie (Savenije, van Lawick & Reijmers (red.), 2008) komen de naam van Ivan Boszormenyi–Nagy en begrippen als ‘intergenerationeel’ en ‘loyaliteit’ op diverse plaatsen voor, maar is de contextuele therapie als afzonderlijke stroming weggevallen. Er is in het Handboek (hoofdstuk …