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Setting Physical Activity Goals with a Virtual Coach: Vicarious Experiences, Personalization and Acceptance

Albers, N. (author), Hizli, B. (author), Scheltinga, Bouke (author), Meijer, Eline (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author)

Goal-setting is often used in eHealth applications for behavior change as it motivates and helps to stay focused on a desired outcome. However, for goals to be effective, they need to meet criteria such as being specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound (SMART). Moreover, people need to be confident to reach their goal. We thus...

journal article 2023

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‘How Would you Score Yourself?’: The Effect of Self-assessment Strategy Through Robots on Children’s Motivation and Performance in Piano Practice

Song, Heqiu (author), Tsiakas, K. (author), Ham, Jaap (author), Markopoulos, Panos (author), Barakova, Emilia I. (author)

This research examines how to design social robots to support self-regulated learning skills for piano practice. More specifically, a social robot is used to provide feedback to children and initiate self-assessment. To assess the impact of this approach on children’s motivation and performance, we conducted an experiment in a music school...

journal article 2023

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Escape theory: Explaining a negative motivation to travel

van Wee, G.P. (author), Mokhtarian, Patricia (author)

In this paper we assume that people could travel in some cases to escape from something, such as their family, colleagues, or residential or work area. The concept of escaping as a driver to travel complements both the mainstream assumption that travel is a derived demand and the idea that people sometimes travel for the fun of it (and thus...

journal article 2023

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Ikigai in online learning with Platzi

Kaußen, Luca (author)

This thesis project explores how to maintain students' motivation to learn with the e-learning platform Platzi. Latin American EdTech company Platzi provides online courses related to jobs in the digital economy to a Spanish-speaking audience. Despite many new benefits of e-learning, like on-demand learning, it also comes with new challenges...

master thesis 2022

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Employing latent profile analysis to identify student motivational profiles

Huisman, Pauline (author)

Latent profile analysis is a statistical modeling approach used to identify hidden subpopulations (i.e., latent profiles) within a population. These latent profiles are identified based on values of observed continuous variables, also known as profile indicators. While LPA is getting more popular in education sciences and psychology to group...

bachelor thesis 2022

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Space Mission Sanitas: Integrating physical activity into the daily life of cardiac patients - A persuasive game during rehabilitation

Chan, Megan (author)

Space Mission Sanitas is a game-based health intervention to help cardiac patients maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. Often people find it hard to maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. They face different barriers that lower their motivation, resulting in an unhealthy lifestyle...

master thesis 2022

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The attitude of anesthesia assistants towards Artificial Intelligence-assisted patient monitoring in the Operating Room: Using the knowledge on their attitude and motivation to create an educational module that supports anesthesia assistants in their awareness and understanding of the impact of AI-assisted monitoring

Joosten, Karlijn (author)

Research on the possibilities to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Operating Room (OR) is rising, although there is no implementation yet. AI-assisted monitoring could provide support to anesthesia assistants in their task of patient monitoring, by making predictions on the future occurrence of deviating events in the vital parameter...

master thesis 2022

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Design engagement for the Recharge app to help and motivate users throughout the program

Choenni, Arvind (author)

Due to an increase in remote working concerns around mental and physical health are increasing. Most people are aware of this problem, but find it hard to improve their health. Recharge is a company that wants to help these people by providing an app where users experience an one-week Bootcamp. In this week they are challenged to try out new...

master thesis 2022

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Start your future today: Developing a future self tool based on predictive knowledge for younger participants to feel more in control of their pension

Stevens, Lisa (author)

Do you remember the phrase “they grow up so fast”? Personally when I hear this, I immediately get flashbacks of my grandmother smiling proudly from ear to ear while saying this about me and my siblings. Maybe for you this was a parent, a neighbour, a teacher or a family friend. Or maybe you have a different memory with this phrase altogether....

master thesis 2022

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Towards functional robotic training: motor learning of dynamic tasks is enhanced by haptic rendering but hampered by arm weight support

Özen, Özhan (author), Buetler, Karin A. (author), Marchal Crespo, L. (author)

BACKGROUND: Current robot-aided training allows for high-intensity training but might hamper the transfer of learned skills to real daily tasks. Many of these tasks, e.g., carrying a cup of coffee, require manipulating objects with complex dynamics. Thus, the absence of somatosensory information regarding the interaction with virtual objects...

journal article 2022

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Naturalistic visualization of reaching movements using head-mounted displays improves movement quality compared to conventional computer screens and proves high usability

Wenk, Nicolas (author), Buetler, Karin A. (author), Penalver-Andres, Joaquin (author), Müri, René M. (author), Marchal Crespo, L. (author)

Background: The relearning of movements after brain injury can be optimized by providing intensive, meaningful, and motivating training using virtual reality (VR). However, most current solutions use two-dimensional (2D) screens, where patients interact via symbolic representations of their limbs (e.g., a cursor). These 2D screens lack depth...

journal article 2022

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Experience Sharing Conversational Agent for Type II Diabetes

Saravanan, Nash (author)

In this work, a conversational interaction was designed and implemented to test the effect of references to past events or shared experiences rephrased into motivational phrases within the context of working towards a diet related goal that can assist with type II diabetes over multiple sessions.<br/>Prior works that utilized a memory typically...

master thesis 2021

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A personalized approach for communicating found anomalies in Netflow data to end-users

de Hoog, Dion (author)

In this research, we use different supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to detect anomalies in NetFlow data. We aim to create a system for home or small-business use where the user is in control. We use WEKA for the machine learning models and feature selection. The UGR’16 dataset is used to train and test the models. We...

master thesis 2021

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Remote work is in my blood - reflections on motivating first year students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rans, C.D. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)

conference paper 2021

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Facilitating goal setting and planning to enhance online self-regulation of learning

Wong, L.Y.J. (author), Baars, Martine (author), He, Min (author), de Koning, Björn (author), Paas, Fred (author)

Online learning environments demand learners to self-regulate their learning but many learners are poor at self-regulated learning (SRL). In this paper, two studies were conducted to examine the effect of two SRL supports, i.e., guiding goal setting and planning using an approach known as mental contrasting and implementation intentions (MCII...

journal article 2021

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Effect of immersive visualization technologies on cognitive load, motivation, usability, and embodiment

Wenk, N. (author), Penalver-Andres, J. (author), Buetler, K. A. (author), Nef, T. (author), Müri, R. M. (author), Marchal Crespo, L. (author)

Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool to promote motor (re)learning in healthy users and brain-injured patients. However, in current VR-based motor training, movements of the users performed in a three-dimensional space are usually visualized on computer screens, televisions, or projection systems, which lack depth cues (2D screen), and...

journal article 2021

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BRINGING TECHNOLOGY TO LIFE: Increasing the amount of in-service medical equipment by developing a MOOC to train Biomedical Equipment Technicians in Low-/ Middle Income Countries

Rutten, Roosmarijn (author)

Currently between 30% till 50%, some even state up to 70%, of medical and laboratory equipment is reported as out of service, due to small or large technical failures or due to missing knowledge of how to use well-functioning equipment in Low-/ Middle- Income Countries (LMIC). This is not due to the complexity of the required repair, but due to,...

master thesis 2020

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Improving Work-From-Home Satisfaction During COVID-19: Helping homeworkers manage work and family together for better work-from-home satisfaction.

Parukoor Thomas, B. (author)

This project deals with the creation of mechanisms for self-assessment in work-from-home (WFH) environments to enhance people's satisfaction. The core of the project lies in increasing WFH satisfaction by incorporating self-experimenting into work and family activities. This relies on the determinants of satisfaction and how homeworkers relate...

master thesis 2020

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Motivating PhD candidates with depression symptoms to complete thoughts-strengthening exercises via a conversational agent

Al Owayyed, Mohammed (author)

PhD students are usually more susceptible than other people to depression-inducing situations, which are not adequately addressed in eHealth systems. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-established depression treatment, and one of its therapeutic methods is to change negative thought patterns into positive ones. The new positive...

master thesis 2020

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Design guidelines for laboratory learning activities in structural mechanics

Gavioli, M. (author), Klaassen, R.G. (author), den Brok, Perry (author), Bisagni, C. (author)

Structural Mechanics (SM) is a fundamental subject in engineering bachelor curricula. Since experimental investigations play a central role in the discipline, laboratory practice is often present in SM courses. Many instructors recognize in laboratory activities, not only a way to develop laboratory skills and appreciation of the scientific...

conference paper 2020