Cognitive Performance of Spatially Disoriented Military Helicopter Pilots

Spatial disorientation (SD) is one of the main causes of incidents and accidents in aviation. While most studies have investigated the effect of SD on the control task, we tested the effect of SD on cognitive performance in an operationally representative environment.<br/>Thirteen Dutch military helicopter pilots flew scenarios with six...

Explore a new haptic reading experience

Today, thanks to digitization, publications are no longer fixed, but dynamic and fluid. The convenience of carrying, the diversity of interaction and the convenience of resource acquisition provided by e-reading make e-reading more and more popular. However, there is still a lot of room for exploration in this field based on the more reading...

The Hospital of Thinkable Boundaries: Methods for Noetic Design

The Hospital of Thinkable Boundaries: Methods for Noetic Design; addresses how the modern city and knowledge-context deals with mental illness and healing. Rather than studying medical spaces this research stems from personal evidence of embetterment through the noetic experience, where productive and vital experience is materialized by the...

HapSync - Exploring Emotional Interactions Through Haptic Vibrations

This project was meant to explore social connection between people through haptic interfaces based on tactile vibrations, but it ended up being a reflection on how technology has been influenced by our understanding of human cognition and how new trends in cognitive science can help to create interfaces that make our digital interactions...

Redesigning MS patient experience - it's all about preparation

Yearly, 270 people in the Netherlands are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and over 16.000 people are already diagnosed with MS in the Netherlands [1]. Between 40% and 70% of MS patients suffer from cognitive complaints in various stages of their disease [8, 67]. The MS Centre Amsterdam has started a new so-called Second Opinion Multiple...

Abductive reasoning as strategy to develop business growth: Executive's cognition and business performance

The study presented in this work investigates the impact of forms of logical reasoning on company performance. Under changing market conditions and uncertainty, executives too often fail to foresee strategic options that lead to superior company performance. One reason for this is that executives tend to rely on deductive/inductive logic in...