Mood expression by seniors in digital communication: Evaluative comparison of four mood-reporting instruments with elderly users

Elderly users have widely adopted digital communication. Digital communication is often text-only, e.g. instant messaging (IM) and e-mail. Text-only communication has been found less effective than communication that uses richer channels such as audio and video. Mood expression instruments, such as emoticons, are used to increase the...

Pick-a-mood; development and application of a pictorial mood-reporting instrument

This paper presents ‘Pick-A-Mood’ (PAM), a cartoon-based pictorial instrument for reporting and expressing moods. The use of cartoon characters enables people to unambiguously and visually express or report their mood in a rich and easy-to-use way. PAM consists of three characters that each express eight different mood states, representing four...

Large-scale physical model tests on sand-filled geotextile tubes and containers under wave attack

Veiligheid waterkeringen bij natuurontwikkeling wetlands in het IJsselmeergebied

Het IJsselmeergebied, waaronder behalve het IJsselmeer ook het Markermeer, IJmeer en de randmeren worden gerekend, heeft thans te lijden onder een achteruitgang van natuur- en landschapskwaliteit en een voordturende hoge ruimtelijke druk. Door alle belanghebbenden en betrokken is erkend dat deze problemen opgelost moeten worden en dat daarvoor...

Designing with Care: The Future of Pervasive Healthcare

Monitoring Bresvorming: Meetplan

In dit rapport is een meetplan beschreven voor monitoring van de bresvorming en taludontwikkeling tijdens zandwinning. De beschrijving vindt plaats in het kader van het Delft Cluster werkpakket ‘Oeverstabiliteit bij verdieping waterbodem’. Het plan moet dienen als basis voor een concreet plan zodra er zich een concrete mogelijkheid voordoet om...

Considerate Home Notification Systems: A User Study of Acceptability of Notifications in a Living Room Laboratory

Recent field experiments on acceptability of notifications in the home showed that people generally want to be informed of urgent messages as soon as possible, whereas non-urgent messages should not be presented at all. A possible way to improve the acceptability of a notification might be to adjust the presentation mode and the timing of...

Ubi-designer: A web-based toolkit for configuring and field-testing UbiComp prototypes

Technology is now available for creating affordable sensor networks and infrastructures for ubiquitous computing environments. In the area of ambient assisted living, context-awareness is considered to be a key factor towards creating acceptable solutions that support elderly people in living independently in their homes as long as possible....

Sturende factoren erosie, transport en sedimentatie in stroomgebieden Rijn en Maas

Het Delft Cluster-project Waterkwaliteit & Calamiteiten brengt de toekomstige ontwikkeling van de water- en slibkwaliteit in beeld onder invloed van extreme gebeurtenissen (gerelateerd aan bijvoorbeeld klimaatsverandering en verandering in landgebruik) en door de mens veroorzaakte calamiteiten (zoals lozingsongelukken). Dit rapport is het...

Please do not disturb: Modeling user experience for considerate home products

Products in the home offer ever more functionality. Advances in sensor technology, embedded processing power, and modeling and reasoning software, have enabled everyday products to sense their environment and eventually anticipate user needs. The enabling technology for ambient intelligence is now available. Whereas in the early days most of the...

Considerate home notification systems: A field study of acceptability of notifications in the home

A field study in ten homes was conducted to understand what influences users’ acceptability of notifications in the home environment. The key finding is that perceived message urgency is the primary indicator of acceptability of notifications in the home—if people think a message is urgent, they want the message to be shown immediately,...

A user experience-based approach to home atmosphere control

The complex control problem of creating home atmospheres using light, music, and projected wall-art can be reduced by focusing on desired expe- rience, rather than product functions and features. A case study is described in which subjective interpreta- tions of living room atmospheres were measured and embedded into a prototype display system....

Man-machine interface

The invention relates to an interface for maintaining man-machine communication with a control system for tuning appliances that influence the ambience, wherein a user command given during operation is converted to settings of these appliances in accordance with at least one predetermined conversion model, wherein the conversion model is a three...