Een onderzoekende houding helpt studenten een betere start te maken in het hbo. Een (aankomend) professional met een onderzoekende houding neemt niet klakkeloos aan wat collega’s, media, of anderen zeggen; is nieuwsgierig naar achtergronden; pluist de situatie uit, en werkt volgens een plan. Kortom, …

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In this article I argue that whereas quantified technologies that measure physical functioning and worn on the body encourage a mind-body dualism, affective experiences caused by haptic devices emphasize a unity of the two. I turn to French ontologist Gilles Deleuze’s concept of immediate encounters …

Due to the increase in scale due to (digital) technology, we are increasingly losing sight of our "common grounds". Our behaviour becomes bizarre, almost psychotic, but decimated by social media. In these Big Tech 'village squares ', we are both consumers and producers, like the sheep of yesteryear, …

The full potential of predictive maintenance has not yet been utilised. Current solutions focus on individual steps of the predictive maintenance cycle and only work for very specific settings. The overarching challenge of predictive maintenance is to leverage these individual building blocks to obtain …

Teams in de HvA bevinden zich in een unieke situatie door de COVID-19 uitbraak. De digitale en sociale transformatie die als gevolg van die uitbraak in gang is gezet, heeft invloed op het professioneel handelen en het welzijn van HvA teams, zo blijkt uit eerder kwalitatief onderzoek onder 49 HvA professionals, …

The Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Assembly (D2RP&A) process developed at Delft University of Technology (DUT) has been scaled up to building size by prototyping of-site a 3.30 m high fragment of a larger spaceframe structure The fragment consists of wooden linear elements connected to a polymer node …

In recent years, the number of human-induced earthquakes in Groningen, a large gas field in the north of the Netherlands, has increased. The majority of the buildings are built by using unreinforced masonry (URM), most of which consists of cavity (i.e. two-leaf) walls, and were not designed to withstand …

People in western countries spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. This severely affects their health (WHO 2013; Klepeis et al. 2001). The health risks are exacerbated if people travel between indoor spaces by car or public transport. Buildings on streets specifically designed to create a human …