This chapter discusses the concept of sensitive environments. Sensitive environments are essentially spatial and public areas like streets or school that are provided with an intelligent infrastructure that collects sensory information of users while they move and interact. Such sensitive environments …

The first part-time jobs came into development in the 1950's. Due to shortage of (female) workers companies started offering part-time jobs to married women. Only part-time jobs were offered since the norms and values of that time viewed raising children and doing the household as the primary task of …

This paper describes the participatory development process of a web-based communication system focusing on disease management, particularly infection control of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These infections are becoming a major public health issue; they can have serious consequences …

Door middel van dit afstudeerproject wordt onderzocht of een zes- wekelijks wandelprogramma bij mobiele ouderen, woonachtig in een verzorgingshuis, leidt tot een verbetering op het gebied van conditie en het algehele welbevinden. Bovendien wordt er gekeken naar hoe een dergelijk wandelprogramma er uitziet …

Full text via link. Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat het enorme ledenverloop van fitnesscentra afneemt? De branchevereniging Fit!Vak stelde deze vraag ruimt 2 jaar geleden aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Deze ondervroeg ruim 5000 klanten van geselecteerde fitnesscentra om aan de hand van de resultaten met oplossingen …

We present a fully working prototype of NOOT, an interactive tangible system which supports (sharing of) moments of reflection during brainstorms. We discuss the iterative design process, informed by embodied situated cognition theory and by user studies in context using various versions of the prototype. …

If being physically fit is of the outmost importance, then what can be said about the fitness of persons with severe or profound intellectual, visual and motor disabilities? Exactly how could their level of physical fitness be measured? Formulated differently, if a person sees little to nothing and in …

To perform at top level, all systems within an organization need to be aligned. When body and mind aren’t connected, you can’t function well. In the same way that it is important to align the mind and the body, a promising business vision (the mind) will not have the expected result when executed without …

The coming decades, the baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) are going to retire. This retirement wave will cause a loss of knowledge for organizations and thus threatens the organization‟s ability to make knowledge productive and thus competitiveness. As knowledge management (KM) is the formal …

Cities need to become environmental sustainable, they have to reduce their ecological footprint by reducing waste, CO² emissions, use land sustainably and take care of the biodiversity. This research took The Hague as an example to investigate the possibilities for an urban agriculture initiative to …