The purpose of this paper is to gain deeper insight into the practical judgements we are making together in ongoing organizational life when realizing a complex innovative technical project for a customer and so enrich the understanding of how customer orientation emerges in an organization. The outcome …

Deze editie van de monitor laat allereerst de ontwikkeling zien van het aantal banen en bedrijven in de Nederlandse creatieve industrie en ICT-sector aan de hand van de LISA-dataset waarin data tot en met april 2020 beschikbaar waren. Ook de analyse van het belang van de top 10 steden in creatieve industrie …

Like a marker pen on a map, the Covid-19 pandemic drastically highlighted the persisting existence of borders that used to play an ever decreasing role in people´s perception and behavior over the last decades. Yes, inner European borders are open in normal times. Yes, people, goods, services and ideas …

This doctoral dissertation, anchored in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and design research, addresses the following primary research question: How can interaction design research contribute to stimulating physical activity in the office environment? This thesis makes several contributions …

Ruud van der Horst, lector Vakmanschap Forensische Zorg, schetst in deze publicatie van zijn openbare les een beeld van de ontwikkelingen in de forensische zorg. Deze gaan enerzijds over de professionalisering van de sector, maar hebben eveneens de roep om vakmanschap doen toenemen. Er wordt inzichtelijk …

The Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) sector is responsible for a large part of the total worldwide energy consumption, a significant part of which is caused by incorrect operation of controls and maintenance. HVAC systems are becoming increasingly complex, especially due to multi-commodity …

Waarom is een circulaire transitie noodzakelijk en wat is wat is de bijdrage die het Fontys Expertisecentrum Circulaire Transitie (FECT) daarin wil bieden?

The studies presented in this dissertation have shown that fostering the vocational identity of at-risk youth can be improved when their different individual characteristics are taken into account and when preferences of at-risk youth and their mentors concerning mentor qualities are addressed during …

We hebben in de afgelopen eeuwen de vruchten van het huidige economische systeem kunnen plukken. De wereldwijde ontwikkeling van welvaart is gepaard gegaan met ontegenzeggelijk positieve ontwikkelingen: de levensverwachting is hoger dan ooit, het percentage mensen dat leeft in armoede is lager dan ooit, …

We present a novel architecture for an AI system that allows a priori knowledge to combine with deep learning. In traditional neural networks, all available data is pooled at the input layer. Our alternative neural network is constructed so that partial representations (invariants) are learned in the …