Reusable Virtual Coach for Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Coaching

Smoking tobacco and physical inactivity are key preventable behavioural risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Computerised coaching systems can help individuals to modify risky behaviours, thereby preventing CVD. However, most reported eHealth or computerized coaching systems are hard to reuse in slightly different settings. To provide...

Integrating heritage assets in large commercial complexes: de-contextualization and re-signification of memory in Shanghai

Since early this century, multiple large-scale commercial projects in Shanghai and other Chinese cities incorporate heritage assets for the creation of new identities after de-contextualisation trough demolition of complete city blocks. This tabula rasa approach resulted in a discontinuity of the meaning and use that local communities gave to...

Renewal of the Sefer: Step by Step: Affordable housing, Ethiopia Addis Ababa

How can the ‘Tabula rasa approach’ be avoided and through a development strategy which can be phased in time, within the existing fabric of the sefer, avoiding relocation of the residents to other parts of city and maintaining existing social networks and provisions.<br/>