Understanding civil servants' intentions to open data: factors influencing behavior to disclose data

Purpose: The opening of government data is high on the policy agenda of governments worldwide. However, data release faces barriers due to limited support of civil servants, whereas the literature neglects civil servants' role in opening data. This paper aims at understanding why civil servants can be reluctant to support the disclosure of data....

Representer Theorem for Learning Koopman Operators

In this work, we consider the problem of learning the Koopman operator for discrete-time autonomous systems. The learning problem is formulated as a generic constrained regularized empirical loss minimization in the infinite-dimensional space of linear operators. We show that a representer theorem holds for the introduced learning problem...

NiceProp: An interactive Python-based educational tool for non-ideal compressible fluid dynamics

Non-ideal compressible flows exhibit physical behaviors that are quantitatively and qualitatively different than those of a perfect or ideal gas. As such, the classical gas dynamic relationships that can be found on fluid-mechanics textbooks cannot be directly applied to characterize this type of flows. NiceProp is a tool for interactively...

An adaptive and strategic human-centred design approach to shaping pandemic design education that promotes wellbeing

Positive student wellbeing is intrinsically connected to positive learning outcomes. Students learn more when they feel well, and the way we shape education influences the way students feel. The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to radically change our design education and is having a large impact on student wellbeing and learning. While some...

Multimodal Dialogue in Small-Group Mathematics Learning

In this paper, we combine dialogic and embodied theories of learning to create a unified analytic lens. Embodied cognition is a theoretical approach operating under the premise that thinking and communication are multimodal activities. Under this premise, dialogue between learners needs to be conceptualized using a multimodal lens. We identify...

Challenges of Urban Living Labs towards the Future of Local Innovation

Finding new approaches to overcome complex urban problems such as climate change has always been of interest to policymakers and academics. The changing dynamics of urban development result in the diversification of new practices during which experimentation is used to inform urban practice. Amongst these approaches, urban living labs (ULLs)...

Reflection in design education

In this article we evaluate the manner in which we at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology encourage the development of the capacity of reflection among our undergraduate students. First we explore the concept of reflection in relation to respectively experiential/reflective learning,...

Task Prioritization in Dual-Tasking: Instructions versus Preferences

The role of task prioritization in performance tradeoffs during multi-tasking has received widespread attention. However, little is known on whether people have preferences regarding tasks, and if so, whether these preferences conflict with priority instructions. Three experiments were conducted with a high-speed driving game and an auditory...

Normative diversity, conflict and transition: shale gas in the Netherlands

Few people disagree on the need for sustainable development, but ideas about what it exactly means and how to pursue it diverge considerably. Although such normative conflicts are key to sustainability transitions, attention to such conflicts is lacking in transition studies. In this paper we understand societal conflict as an informal...