Gebouwde omgeving en het leer- en leefklimaat op scholen

De sfeer op school wordt vooral bepaald door de houding en werkwijze van de leraren en het aantal en soort leerlingen dat de school bevolkt. Maar ook het gebouw levert een belangrijke bijdrage. Het gebouw en de buitenruimten vormen het decor waarin alle activiteiten zich afspelen. De uitstraling die van een gebouw uitgaat heeft grote invloed op...

Programming of buildings

A vital function of a building is spatial organisation of activity. Designing must have a sound insight into points of departure objectives and wishes of users: their activities, organisational structure and ensuing spatial consequences. When a new organisation is looking for an adress; or when an existing organisation has decided that present...

Ex post evaluation of buildings

Literally, ‘evaluating’ means to assess something’s ‘value’. It would seem that the term orginated in the banking world, where evaluation stands for appraisal in terms of the stock exchange, and for determining prices in cash. In the case of evaluations in the discipline of architecture, it is relevant to distinguish between product orientated...

Quantifying neural and non-neural components of wrist hyper-resistance after stroke: Comparing two instrumented assessment methods

Patients with poor upper limb motor recovery after stroke are likely to develop increased resistance to passive wrist extension, i.e., wrist hyper-resistance. Quantification of the underlying neural and non-neural elastic components is of clinical interest. This cross-sectional study compared two methods: a commercially available device ...

The Cortical Response Evoked by Robotic Wrist Perturbations Reflects Level of Proprioceptive Impairment After Stroke

Background: Proprioception is important for regaining motor function in the paretic upper extremity after stroke. However, clinical assessments of proprioception are subjective and require verbal responses from the patient to applied proprioceptive stimuli. Cortical responses evoked by robotic wrist perturbations and measured by...

An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration

We often interact with our environment through manual handling of objects and exploration of their properties. Object properties (OP), such as texture, stiffness, size, shape, temperature, weight, and orientation provide necessary information to successfully perform interactions. The human haptic perception system plays a key role in this. As...