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The COVID19 pandemic has exposed several systemic failures and injustices in the way cities are planned and designed around the world. It has also exposed the failings due to lack of planning in most places in the Global South. Careful, inclusive and participatory spatial planning is thought to greatly strengthen the capacity of societies to...book 2021
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Giunti, Guido (author), Claes, Maëlick (author), Zubiete, Enrique Dorronzoro (author), Rivera-Romero, Octavio (author), Gabarron, Elia (author)Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the world's most common neurologic disorders. Social media have been proposed as a way to maintain and even increase social interaction for people with MS. The objective of this work is to identify and compare the topics on Twitter during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Data was...book chapter 2021
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Arkesteijn, M.H. (author), Jansen, S.J.T. (author), Kieft, B.B.T. (author), Appel-Meulenbroek, Rianne (author), Hoekstra, Bartele (author), Jongens-Vander Schaaf, Pity (author)Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Dutch employees were told to work from home as much as possible. Homeworking can have benefits both for employees and employers, as some experience a productivity increase and a better work-life balance. However, it is also harder for employers to measure and monitor employees’ performance and for the employee it can...conference paper 2021
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Ding, Er (author), Zhang, D. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)To investigate the sufficiency of ventilation during the COVID-19 pandemic for school children, a field study was conducted in 37 classrooms of 11 Dutch secondary schools between October 2020 and June 2021. All the classrooms were visited twice, before and after a three-month national lockdown, when different measures against COVID-19 were taken...conference paper 2022
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Cash for the Register? Capturing Rationales of Early COVID-19 Domain Registrations at Internet-scalePletinckx, S.R.G. (author), Habben Jansen, G.J. (author), Brussen, A. (author), van Wegberg, R.S. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic introduced novel incentives for adversaries to exploit the state of turmoil. As we have witnessed with the increase in for instance phishing attacks and domain name registrations piggybacking the COVID-19 brand name. In this paper, we perform an analysis at Internet-scale of COVID-19 domain name registrations during the...conference paper 2021
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Schuller, Björn W. (author), Batliner, Anton (author), Bergler, Christian (author), Mascolo, Cecilia (author), Han, Jing (author), Lefter, I. (author), Kaya, Heysem (author), Amiriparian, Shahin (author), Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses four different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the COVID-19 Cough and COVID-19 Speech Sub-Challenges, a binary classification on COVID-19 infection has to be made based on coughing sounds and speech; in the Escalation...conference paper 2021
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Gotze, Matthias (author), Matic, Srdjan (author), Iordanou, Costas (author), Smaragdakis, G. (author), Laoutaris, Nikolaos (author)In recent years, governments worldwide have moved their services online to better serve their citizens. Benefits aside, this choice increases the danger of tracking via such sites. This is of great concern as governmental websites increasingly become the only interaction point with the government. In this paper, we investigate popular...conference paper 2022
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Xu, Y. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author), Yorke-Smith, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)COVID-19 significantly influenced travel behaviours and public attitudes towards public transport. Various studies have illustrated complicated factors related to long-term travel behaviour, indicating difficulty in understanding and predicting post-pandemic long-term travel behaviour via traditional methods. In these complex circumstances,...conference paper 2023
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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)Recently articles in Newspapers, University News Bulletins and Scientific Literature report about negative aspects of the wellbeing of students caused by COVID-19 epidemic. Half of the students have mental problems and don't participate in the teaching learning process anymore. In the Netherlands, Universities are surveyed by questionnaires,...conference paper 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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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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Rosenthal, Jean Claude (author), Schneider, Armin (author), Wisotzky, Eric L. (author), Meij, S.E.P. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (author), Arens, Philipp (author), Uecker, Florian C. (author)Existing challenges in surgical education (See one, do one, teach one) as well as the Covid-19 pandemic make it necessary to develop new ways for surgical training. This is also crucial for the dissemination of new technological developments. As today's live transmissions of surgeries to remote locations always come with high information loss...journal article 2021
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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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Kleiman, F. (author), Meijer, S.A. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)The recent need for social-distancing caused by COVID-19 resulted in working remotely, which can cause loneliness and disconnect from the organization. The pandemic stimulated people to look for novel ways to interact and, at the same time, socialize with each other. The change to home office increased the number of people using digital video...journal article 2020
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Vuorio, Alpo (author), Kovanen, Petri T. (author), Budowle, Bruce (author), Sajantila, Antti (author), Palo, Jukka U. (author), Stoop, J.A.A.M. (author)Despite the increased frequency and scale of wildfire-related catastrophes, there has been little or no effective and coordinated international policy to address their highly negative impact. Possibly a generalized approach to respond to such major events could be modeled on existing international safety investigation policies and agreements...journal article 2021
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Zhao, Liang (author), Ao, Yibin (author), Wang, Yan (author), Wang, T. (author)As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) swept the world in early 2020, all the Chinese universities and colleges adopted online learning to fulfill the directive saying “classes suspended but learning continues.” Understanding the impact of this large-scale online learning experience on the future online learning intention of Chinese university...journal article 2022
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Wang, Y. (author), Viseu Cardoso, Rodrigo (author), Forgaci, C. (author)This paper presents the concept of urban pandemic vulnerability as a crucial framework for understanding how COVID-19 affects cities and how they react to pandemics. We adapted existing social and environmental urban vulnerability frameworks to assess pandemic impacts and responses, identifying the appropriate components and spatial,...journal article 2022
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Goyal, N. (author), Howlett, Michael (author)Although understanding initial responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 is important, existing research on the topic has not been systematically comparative. This study uses topic modeling to inductively analyze over 13,000 COVID-19 policies worldwide. This technique enables the COVID-19 policy mixes to be characterized and their cross-country...journal article 2021
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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