In the Netherlands, over 40% of nursing home residents are estimated to have visual impairments. This results in the loss of basic visual abilities. The nursing home environment fits more or less to residents’ activities and social participation. This is referred to as environmental fit. To raise professional …

Nursing home residents with dementia face challenges in adapting to a new living environment and feeling at home. Due to communicative limitations, people with dementia after often left out of design processes. The aim of this study is to investigate the housing needs in relation to the interior design …

The upbringing of children with ASD is a difficult task for their parents. Because of their constraints in contact and communication it is hard to understand their needs and therefore the parents and their brothers and sisters need specific skills. In the Netherlands there is no home treatment specifically …

Sensor technology is increasingly applied for the purpose of monitoring elderly’s Activities of Daily Living (ADL), a set of activities used by physicians to benchmark physical and cognitive decline. Visualizing deviations in ADL can help medical specialists and nurses to recognize disease symptoms at …

Given that it is essential for hotels to understand how guests experience hospitality, hotel managers need more concrete and tangible insights into this issue to improve their service. Quantitative research on experience of the physical environment and employee contact has shown that the comfort of hotel …

Tally Weijl is an expanding fashion company possessing the financial and internal resources to expand. The research question of this paper is: What could be a suitable entry strategy for Tally Weijl to penetrate the German market with a sleeping wear line? An internal analysis of Tally Weijl tells that …

Safety at work The objective of the project Safety at Work is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artefacts from personal protective equipment and ambient intelligence technology. In this state of the art document we focus on the developments with respect to …

Contribution to exhibition Qua Art - Qua Science. The artist Joost Verhagen represents spaces in an original way by using colours, texture and forms. He invokes thoughts and feelings with his works of art. The concept of ambient intelligence also deals with space, but especially with spaces that are …

It all began with ̈Celebration® Karneval® ̈ from Westhoff, a Calibrachoa mix consisting of three different colours. The result in red, yellow and blue was so convincing that it became the trend-setter for what nowadays is marketed under the name "combi-pots". These are colourful combinations, either …

This research is done in order to create the best strategy for Philips Lighting in the changing markets of recently. The goal is to create opportunities while the European legislation concerning the incandescent light bulbs forces the company to gradually remove all its incandescent lamps. The legislation …