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Ipakchian Askari, Sima (author), Huisman, G. (author), Haans, Antal (author), IJsselsteijn, Wijnand A. (author)Affective haptic devices (AHDs) are communication technologies utilizing the sense of touch, and include mediated social touch (MST), symbolic haptic messaging, and awareness systems that, for example, let one feel another person's heartbeat. The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent social distancing measures have led to a reemphasis of the...journal article 2022
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Kreulen, Kurt (author), de Bruin, B. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Mellema, René (author), Kammler, Christian (author), Vanhee, Loïs (author), Dignum, Frank (author), Dignum, Virginia (author)Since its first appearance in Wuhan (China), countries have been employing, to varying degrees of success, a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within their populations. In this article, we build on scientific work that demonstrates that culture is part of the explanation for the observed...journal article 2022
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Aylett-Bullock, Joseph (author), Gilman, Robert Tucker (author), Hall, Ian (author), Kennedy, David (author), Evers, Egmond Samir (author), Katta, Anjali (author), Ahmed, Hussien (author), Fong, Kevin (author), Comes, M. (author), Gaanderse, M.Q. (author)The spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems and infrastructures across the world, exacerbating inequalities and leaving the world's most vulnerable populations at risk. Epidemiological modelling is vital to guiding evidence-informed or data-driven decision making. In forced displacement...journal article 2022
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Shortall, R.M. (author), Mouter, N. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of transport-related policy measures worldwide. In this paper, we review the literature on factors that are important for the design of those measures, and their effects on safety, physical and mental health, economy and environment. We conclude that factors underlying the introduction of...journal article 2022
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Kaur, M. (author), Parkin, S.E. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Fiebig, T. (author)The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic made working from home – wherever working remotely is possible the norm for what had previously been office-based jobs across the world. This change in how we work created a challenging situation for system administrators (sysadmins), as they are the ones building and maintaining the digital infrastructure...journal article 2022
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Mouter, N. (author), de Ruijter, A.M. (author), Ardine de Wit, G. (author), Lambooij, Mattijs S. (author), van Wijhe, Maarten (author), van Exel, Job (author), Kessels, Roselinde (author)Background: Vaccination is generally considered the most direct way to restoring normal life after the outbreak of COVID-19, but the available COVID-19 vaccines are simultaneously embraced and dismissed. Mapping factors for vaccine hesitancy may help the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and provide valuable insights for future pandemics. Objectives...journal article 2022
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Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of office workers were required to conduct their work from home. Little is known about the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) preferences and psychosocial comfort preferences of staff working from home. Therefore this study aimed to cluster office workers working at home based on their self-reported...journal article 2022
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van Brakel, Rosamunde (author), Kudina, O. (author), Fonio, Chiara (author), Boersma, Kees (author)This paper focuses on two examples of the introduction and use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in The Netherlands (CoronaMelder) and Belgium (Coronalert). It aims to offer a critical, sociotechnical perspective on tracing apps to understand how social, technical, and institutional dimensions form the ingredients for increasing surveillance....journal article 2022
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Tonetto, Leonardo (author), Adikari, Malintha (author), Mohan, Nitinder (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Ott, Jörg (author)Human mobility shapes our daily lives, our urban environment and even the trajectory of a global pandemic. While various aspects of human mobility and inter-personal contact duration have already been studied separately, little is known about how these two key aspects of our daily lives are fundamentally connected. Better understanding of such...journal article 2022
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de Vries, P. (author)Emerging technologies are part of the constituting datafication and digitalization process that poses major challenges to the current educational infrastructure. Clearly, universities are challenged to respond to the demands that seem to develop faster and become more complex over time. The complexity, though, is not just technical; it is the...journal article 2022
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Shelat, S. (author), Cats, O. (author), van Cranenburgh, S. (author)With a few exceptions, public transport ridership around the world has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Travellers are now likely to adapt their behaviour with a focus on factors that contribute to the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Given the unprecedented spatial and temporal scale of this crisis, these changes in behaviour may even...journal article 2022
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Nane, G.F. (author), Robinson Garcia, N. (author), van Schalkwyk, François (author), Torres-Salinas, Daniel (author)We model the growth of scientific literature related to COVID-19 and forecast the expected growth from 1 June 2021. Considering the significant scientific and financial efforts made by the research community to find solutions to end the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented volume of scientific outputs is being produced. This questions the...journal article 2022
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Voigt, Christiane (author), Lelieveld, Jos (author), Schlager, Hans (author), Schneider, Johannes (author), Curtius, Joachim (author), Bohn, Birger (author), Mertens, M. (author), Grewe, V. (author), Lucke, J.R. (author)During spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused massive reductions in emissions from industry and ground and airborne transportation. To explore the resulting atmospheric composition changes, we conducted the BLUESKY campaign with two research aircraft and measured trace gases, aerosols, and cloud properties from the boundary layer to the...journal article 2022
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Badman, Ryan P. (author), Wang, Ace X. (author), Skrodzki, M. (author), Cho, Heng-Chin (author), Aguilar-Lleyda, David (author), Shiono, Naoko (author), Yoo, Seng Bum Michael (author), Chiang, Yen-Sheng (author), Akaishi, Rei (author)A core assumption often heard in public health discourse is that increasing trust in national political leaders is essential for securing public health compliance during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–ongoing). However, studies of national government trust are typically too coarse-grained to differentiate between trust in...journal article 2022
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Peng, Z. (author), Pineda Rojas, A.L. (author), Kropff, E. (author), Bahnfleth, W. (author), Buonanno, G. (author), Dancer, S.J. (author), Kurnitski, J. (author), Li, Y. (author), Boerstra, A.C. (author), Jimenez, J.L. (author)Some infectious diseases, including COVID-19, can undergo airborne transmission. This may happen at close proximity, but as time indoors increases, infections can occur in shared room air despite distancing. We propose two indicators of infection risk for this situation, that is, relative risk parameter (Hr) and risk parameter (H). They combine...journal article 2022
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van Wee, G.P. (author)COVID-19 is zeer snel een hot topic geworden in de wetenschappelijke literatuur over mobiliteitsgedrag. Er zijn inmiddels honderden papers over dit onderwerp verschenen. Ook in Nederland en Vlaanderen krijgt het onderwerp veel aandacht. Zo heeft het Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid onder meer gepubliceerd over thuiswerken tijdens en na de...journal article 2021
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Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author), Daamen, W. (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author)In dit artikel worden de effecten van COVID-19 op de (relevante onderdelen van de) aanbodkant van het mobiliteitssysteem beschreven. Gezien de verwachte impact ligt de focus op voetgangersstromen, fietsstromen, het gebruik van deeldiensten en openbaar vervoer voertuigen. We kijken naar het effect op de capaciteit, via gemeten of theoretisch...journal article 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Bahamonde-Birke, Francisco (author)Na de uitbraak van COVID-19 heeft de Nederlandse overheid verschillende maatregelen genomen om het virus terug te dringen. Voorkeuren van burgers over de wenselijkheid van maatregelen kunnen besluitvorming over maatregelen informeren. In dit discrete keuze-experiment meten wij de wenselijkheid van verschillende maatregelen om thuiswerken te...journal article 2021
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Shortall, R.M. (author), Mouter, N. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)Als reactie op de COVID-19 pandemie zijn wereldwijd veel transport gerelateerde maatregelen getroffen, en die maatregelen hebben vele maatschappelijk relevante effecten gehad. Doel van dit paper is de literatuur te reviewen die tot eind 2020 over dit onderwerp beschikbaar was. Het is daarmee een tussentijdse stand van zaken. De review beoogt een...journal article 2021
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Shortall, R.M. (author), Mouter, N. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)De COVID-19 pandemie heeft wereldwijd geleid tot maatregelen gericht op personenmobiliteit (Shortall et al., 2021). In dit paper reviewen we de literatuur over factoren van belang voor het ontwerp van die maatregelen, en de effecten ervan op veiligheid, lichamelijke en geestelijke gezondheid, economie en milieu. Zo’n review is van belang om te...journal article 2021