In this paper, we present and discuss Ivy, a critical artifact offering a novel design perspective on interventions that aim to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers. Ivy is an interactive office chair that represents the amount of sitting time through growing ivy strands. Using the matrix of common …

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The dynamic evolvement of the Information Technology world has a significant impact on other domains. All types of organizations have to keep pace with this since the customers have less and less patience and higher demands. Therefore, having hosting services to be improved qualitatively and automatized …

Socially aware persuasive games that use immersive technologies often appeal to empathy, prompting users to feel and understand the struggles of another. However, the often sought-after standing in another's shoes' experience, in which users virtually inhabit another in distress, may complicate other-oriented …

This paper addresses the design dilemmas that arise when distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are to be applied in the governance of artificial material commons. DLTs, such as blockchain, are often presented as enabling technologies for self-governing communities, provided by their consensus mechanisms, …

Background: There is increasing interest in the role that technology can play in improving the vitality of knowledge workers. A promising and widely adopted strategy to attain this goal is to reduce sedentary behavior (SB) and increase physical activity (PA). In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art …

The implementation of games in architecture and urban planning has a long history since the 1960s and is still a preferential tool to foster public participation and address contemporary spatial-and social-conflicts within the urban fabric. Moreover, in the last decade, we have seen the rise of urban …

Full tekst beschikbaar voor gebruikers van Linkedin. Driven by technological innovations such as cloud and mobile computing, big data, artificial intelligence, sensors, intelligent manufacturing, robots and drones, the foundations of organizations and sectors are changing rapidly. Many organizations …

Many people on Earth are hungry or do not have a reliable source of drinking water. Drought-tolerantcrops do not need much water to grow and therefor usable in regions where water is an issue. Cropbreeders are working on crops that are more drought-tolerant and grow faster. Corp …

Privacy by design is a widely acknowledged necessity, yet its practice is still in its infancy. Many scholars have argued that privacy by design requires a cross-disciplinary approach in which privacy perspectives from different disciplines need to be integrated from the beginning of the design process. …