Many companies have included social media features in their corporate intranets to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing, and to improve internal communications. Since November 2013 Rabobank International(RI) has launched their new worldwide social intranet, Meeting point. However, like in many …

Due to the need to present information in a fast and attractive way, organizations are eager to use information visualisations. This study explores the collision between the different experts involved in the production of these visualisations using the model of trading zones supplemented with the …

This thesis is about establishing the possibilities for Thais Verkeersbureau on social media to get more exposure on the Dutch market and to generate more traffic to Thailand. Thais Verkeersbureau is the Dutch Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT has its headquarters in Bangkok and has been promoting …

Tim Hortons is a Canadian quick service restaurant best known for its coffee and doughnuts. It opened its first coffee shop in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario. From the start, Tim Hortons has focused on top quality products that are always fresh and delivering exceptional service. It has grown into the largest …

This study examines the motives of employees to engage in work related social media use – i.e. the use of personal social media accounts to communicate about work-related issues. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was used to explain this behavior. Because social media can enable users to express their …

The initial trigger of this research about learning from video was the availability of log files from users of video material. Video modality is seen as attractive as it is associated with the relaxed mood of watching TV. The experiments in this research have the goal to gain more insight in viewing …

A rail-guided robotic system is currently being designed for the inspection of ballast water tanks in ships. This robotic system will manipulate sensors toward the interior walls of the tank. In this paper, the influence of rail compliance on the end-effector position error due to ship movement is investigated. …

Anomaly detection is a key factor in the processing of large amounts of sensor data from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Efficient anomaly detection algorithms can be devised performing online node-local computations and reducing communication overhead, thus improving the use of the limited hardware …

AIMS: To assess the influence of peer alcohol use during adolescence on young adults' alcohol use and abuse, and to assess to what extent parents' perception of their adolescent child's friends and adolescent's self-control modify this influence. METHODS: We analyzed data from the first, third, and fourth …

The maturing field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) results in long-lived deployments that produce large amounts of sensor data. Lightweight online on-mote processing may improve the usage of their limited resources, such as energy, by transmitting only unexpected sensor data (anomalies). We detect …