In this paper I measure first year student Facebook usage as part of a broader PhD study into the influence of social media usage on the success of students in higher education. A total of 906 students were asked to complete 3 surveys on Facebook usage with their peers, for two consecutive years (2011-2012 …

Sustainability is one of the most pressing and general topics in todays (Western) society. How the world of sport is contributing to climate change and what that implies for the world of sport is stressed by e.g. Gammelsaeter & Loland (2022) and Goldblatt (2023). The perspective found in the work of …

This research was conducted to update the content of the International Business Studies curriculum. The dynamically developing business environment, including the shift towards hybrid work, deepened the widely reported misalignment between business communication instruction and industry requirements. …

Het klassieke modesysteem – dat zo sterk verankerd is in de westerse verlichting, in industrialisatie, kapitalisme en modernisme – is niet langer houdbaar en moet opnieuw gedefinieerd worden. Hier wordt ingegaan op het proces van verandering, de nieuwe vragen en mogelijke, meer inclusieve, oplossingen …

Werken sociale robots echt op de winkelvloer? Maken klanten er gebruik van en wat vinden zij van de robot? En hoe kijken winkelmedewerkers tegen de robot aan? Ewout Nas, Tibert Verhagen, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Stephanie van de Sanden (HvA) en Koen Hindriks (VU Amsterdam) zochten het uit. Het is voor winkeliers …

We present our ongoing work on upgrading the Amsterdam Public Library's book database search capabilities. So far, users have had to input the exact book title and/or author name without any typos or misspellings in order to retrieve any results. This is in sharp contrast with the manner in which users …

In de afgelopen jaren spelen toepassingen van kunstmatige intelligentie (artificiële intelligentie, AI) een steeds prominentere rol bij werk, er wordt zelfs gesproken dat AI menselijke arbeidstaken geheel kan overnemen. De bestaande overzichten van gebruikte AI-tools zijn vaak ingedeeld in categorieën …

During the 2024 Open Science Retreat, the Measuring Open Science team collected, reviewed, and analyzed existing research into open science practices. As a team, we developed an interactive overview of open science surveys, which may be used e.g. to reuse questionnaire items on different open science …