Effects of climate change in cities are evident and are expected to increase in the future, demanding adaptation. In order to share knowledge, raise awareness, and build capacity on climate adaptation, the first concept of a “ClimateCafé” has been utilized since 2012 in 25 events all over the world. …

Organisations of land managers in landscape management face the challenge of combining the need to foster bonding social capital within their member groups with the need to develop bridging social capital with other stakeholders and linking social capital with public authorities. This paper compares …

Deze scriptie beschrijft het onderzoek naar het verbeteren van de coaching en begeleiding in de klassen van *de mbo-instelling* in *plaatsnaam mbo-instelling*. De aanleiding voor dit onderzoek is dat uit een jaarlijks onderzoek van *de mbo-instelling* onder de vroegtijdige schoolverlaters (vsv’ers) opvalt …

Studying images on social media introduces several challenges that relate to the size of datasets and the different meaning-making grammars of social visuality; or as aptly pointed out by others in the field, it means ‘studying the qualitative on a quantitative scale’. Although cultural analytics provides …

People with a visual impairment (PVI) often experience difficulties with wayfinding. Current navigation applications have limited communication channels and do not provide detailed enough information to support PVI. By transmitting wayfinding information via multimodal channels and combining these with …

Continuous development and increasing usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) introduce many opportunities for individuals, organizations and the society at large. The usage of ICT, however, increases also people’s dependency on the well-functioning of Information Systems (ISs), which …

We analyze how ‘original’ residents in different gentrifying working class areas in Amsterdam North experience and evaluate the changes in their neighborhood in terms of social cohesion – in other words, whether they feel at home in their changing neighborhood and whether they feel connected to other …

Integrated approach aims at bridging the gap between theory and practice in designing persuasive eHealth applications.  Developed from a didactic and educational perspective and is being implemented in our master program. It enables our master students to design user-centered persuasive eHealth …