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The COVID-19 paradox of online collaborative education: when you cannot physically meet, you need more social interactions

Kalmar, E. (author), Aarts, Tom (author), Bosman, Esther (author), Ford, Camera (author), de Kluijver, Lisa (author), Beets, Josine (author), Veldkamp, Lisette (author), Timmers, Pauline (author), Besseling, Diede (author), Koopman, Joris (author), Fan, Chuntzu (author), Berrevoets, Enya (author), Trotsenburg, Melissa (author), Maton, Loes (author), van Remundt, Jill (author), Sari, Ela (author), Omar, Lee Wen (author), Beinema, Emiel (author), Winkel, R.N.W. (author), van der Sanden, M.C.A. (author)

Collaborative learning is a teaching method that brings together students to discuss a topic important for a given course or curriculum and solve a related problem or create a product. By doing this, learners create knowledge together and gain 21^st –century skills such as communication, critical thinking, decision making,...

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Mean Field Behavior of Collaborative Multiagent Foragers

Jarne Ornia, D. (author), Zufiria, Pedro J. (author), Mazo, M. (author)

Collaborative multiagent robotic systems, where agents coordinate by modifying a shared environment often result in undesired dynamical couplings that complicate the analysis and experiments when solving a specific problem or task. Simultaneously, biologically inspired robotics rely on simplifying agents and increasing their number to obtain...

journal article 2022

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MPC-based Haptic Shared Steering System: A Driver Modeling Approach for Symbiotic Driving

Rios Lazcano, A.M. (author), Niu, Tenghao (author), Carrera Akutain, Xabier (author), Cole, David (author), Shyrokau, B. (author)

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) aim to increase safety and reduce mental workload. However, the gap in the understanding of the closed-loop driver-vehicle interaction often leads to reduced user acceptance. In this study, an optimal torque control law is calculated online in the Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework to guarantee...

journal article 2021

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Economies of scale and sustainability in local government: A complex issue

Blank, J.L.T. (author), Niaounakis, T.K. (author)

Local governments may seek efficient public service delivery through scaling up production, and the quest for the optimal local government size has attracted extensive attention of scholars and policy makers. Indeed, if scale matters for local government efficiency, increasing size may be a key factor in achieving more value for money for...

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Comparing Human Factors for Augmented Reality Supported Single-User and Collaborative Repair Operations of Industrial Robots

Aschenbrenner, D. (author), Leutert, Florian (author), Çençen, A. (author), Verlinden, J.C. (author), Schilling, Klaus (author), Latoschik, Marc (author), Lukosch, S.G. (author)

In order to support the decision-making process of industry on how to implement Augmented Reality (AR) in production, this article wants to provide guidance through a set of comparative user studies. The results are obtained from the feedback of 160 participants who performed the same repair task on a switch cabinet of an industrial robot....

journal article 2019

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Challenges for design researchers in healthcare

Groeneveld, B.S. (author), Dekkers, T. (author), Boon, Boudewijn (author), D'Olivo, P. (author)

Design research in healthcare can be demanding. We report on eight challenges that designers and design researchers face when working on healthcare projects. We conducted four workshops with design researchers active in healthcare: six PhD candidates, a mixed group of thirteen design researchers, twelve design students, and eight design...

journal article 2018

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Towards automatic collaboration analytics for group speech data using learning analytics

Praharaj, S. (author), Scheffel, Maren (author), Schmitz, Marcel (author), Specht, M.M. (author), Drachsler, Hendrik (author)

Collaboration is an important 21st Century skill. Co-located (or face-to-face) collaboration (CC) analytics gained momentum with the advent of sensor technology. Most of these works have used the audio modality to detect the quality of CC. The CC quality can be detected from simple indicators of collaboration such as total speaking time or...

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Evolving ICT and governance in organizational networks: Conceptual and theoretical foundations

Loukis, E (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Dawes, S. (author), Zheng, L (author)

Both private and public sector organizations tend to participate in networks in order to gain access to knowledge, skills and resources of other organizations and to create synergies to achieve highly demanding and complex goals they cannot attain individually. The governance of these networks has been recognized as being an important variable...

journal article 2016

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Analyzing scientific mobility and collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa

El-Ouahi, Jamal (author), Robinson Garcia, N. (author), Costas, Rodrigo (author)

This study investigates the scientific mobility and international collaboration networks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region between 2008 and 2017. By using affiliation metadata available in scientific publications, we analyze international scientific mobility flows and collaboration linkages. Three complementary approaches...

journal article 2021

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Positive energy districts: Identifying challenges and interdependencies

Krangsås, Savis Gohari (author), Steemers, Koen (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Soutullo, Silvia (author), Liu, Mingming (author), Giancola, Emanuela (author), Prebreza, Bahri (author), Ashrafian, Touraj (author), Murauskaitė, Lina (author), Maas, Nienke (author)

Positive Energy Districts (PED) are areas within cities that generate more renewable energy than they consume, contributing to cities’ energy system transformation toward carbon neutrality. Since PED is a novel concept, the implementation is very challenging. Within the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action, which...

journal article 2021

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A systemic framework of energy efficiency in schools: experiences from six European countries

Brychkov, Dmitry (author), Goggins, Gary (author), Doherty, Edelle (author), Romero Herrera, N.A. (author), Roudil, Nadine (author), Di Trani, Antonella (author), Singh, A. (author), Smit, Sander (author), McLoughlin, Eilish (author)

Schools are complex physical and social institutions within national education systems. They account for significant energy consumption and like other buildings can demonstrate inefficient patterns of energy use. Poor energy performance of educational facilities is an intricate issue driven by complex causality of interconnected and dynamic...

journal article 2023

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Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City: Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs

Voorwinden, Astrid (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), Verhoef, Leendert (author)

Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have been implemented in many cities, but their organizational and legal structure has not often been analyzed. ULLs aim to provide a space for different parties to research, develop, and test solutions to urban problems whilst engaging with local communities. Their experimental approach to urban innovation and to...

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The ground handler dock capacitated pickup and delivery problem with time windows: A collaborative framework for air cargo operations

Bombelli, A. (author), Fazi, S. (author)

We study a typical problem within the air cargo supply chain, concerning the transportation of standard Unit Load Devices (ULDs) from freight forwarders’ to ground handlers’ warehouses. First, ULDs are picked up by a set of available trucks at the freight forwarders’ premises within a time window. Next, they are delivered to the ground handlers,...

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A process model for collaboration in circular oriented innovation

Brown, P.D. (author), Von Daniels, C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

Circular oriented innovation commonly requires collaboration. Yet, to date, circular research lacks empirical investigation into collaborative processes. Collaborative processes are, however, highly researched within strategic management literature, thus offering valuable insights. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, identify and...

journal article 2021

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A tool for collaborative circular proposition design

Brown, P.D. (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Konietzko, J.C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

Circular oriented innovation aims to address sustainability problems such as resource scarcity, pollution and climate change by (re)designing industrial products, processes, business models, and value network configurations. Although the literature identifies collaboration as crucial for circular oriented innovation—due to the complexity,...

journal article 2021

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Collaborative Learning in Engineering Design Education: A Systematic Literature Review

van Helden, G. (author), Zandbergen, B.T.C. (author), Specht, M.M. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author)

Contribution: This article presents a comprehensive overview of characteristics of educational designs of collaborative engineering design activities found in literature and how these characteristics mediate students' collaboration. Background: Engineers have to solve complex problems that require collaboration. In education, various...

journal article 2023

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Robotic Skill Mutation in Robot-to-Robot Propagation During a Physically Collaborative Sawing Task

Maessen, Rosa E.S. (author), Prendergast, J.M. (author), Peternel, L. (author)

Skill propagation among robots without human involvement can be crucial in quickly spreading new physical skills to many robots. In this respect, it is a good alternative to pure reinforcement learning, which can be time-consuming, or learning from human demonstration, which requires human involvement. In the latter case, there may not be...

journal article 2023

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Teams’ boundary-spanning capacity at university: Performance of technology projects in commercialization

Taheri, M. (author), van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author)

Universities increasingly are taking on the commercialization of knowledge as their third mission. More recently, they appear to be challenged to go even beyond that mission and adopt more interactive relationships with user groups and society. A shift like this calls for a solid study on how well the knowledge commercialization has performed...

journal article 2016

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A Survey on Story Generation Techniques for Authoring Computational Narratives

Kybartas, B.A. (author), Bidarra, Rafael (author)

Computers are often used as tools to design, implement and even visualize a variety of narrative forms. Many researchers and artists are now further attempting to engage the computer actively throughout the development of the narrative itself. Any form of computational narrative authoring is at some level always mixed-initiative, meaning that...

journal article 2017

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A collaborative game to study presence and situational awareness in a physical and an augmented reality environment

Datcu, D. (author), Lukosch, S.G. (author), Lukosch, H.K. (author)

While augmented reality research has grown into a mature field over the last years, the aspects of situational awareness and presence of augmented reality (AR) are still quite open research topics. This paper introduces a collaborative game to explore the different perception of situational awareness and presence in a physical and an AR...

journal article 2016