The relation between motivational factors and video gaming addiction

The gaming industry is growing larger every year. Video games are useful for many applications but are also a reason for worry. Games are starting to affect the lives of people negatively. Nowadays, this is defined as Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). We relate the players' motivations to game addiction through a survey and test our findings by...

Self-efficacy of Dutch primary school teachers towards programming education

Only 32% of the Dutch primary schools do something with programming, despite its benefits on students’ skills, job opportunities, understanding of the world, and diversity. Primary school teachers not getting involved with programming education can be caused by a lack of belief in their teaching programming abilities. The belief in your own...

Language-consistent Open Relation Extraction: from Multilingual Text Corpora

Open Relation Extraction (ORE) aims to find arbitrary relation tuples between entities in unstructured texts. Even though recent research efforts yield state-of-the-art results for the ORE task by utilizing neural network based models, these works are solely focused on the English language. Methods were proposed to tackle the ORE task for...

Manoeuvrability and communication requirements for safe operation when manned and unmanned vessels meet

This thesis proposes two methods two solve the challenge of communication between manned and unmannd vessels. The first solution is to avoid communication by staying well clear. The second solution is to develop a protocol based on existing systems and protocols, to facilitate communication between manned and unmanned vessels.

The analysis of three-dimensional embeddings in Virtual Reality

Dimensionality reduction algorithms transform high-dimensional datasets with many attributes per observation into lower-dimensional representations (called embeddings) such that the structure of the dataset is maintained as well as possible. In this research, the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to analyse these embeddings has been evaluated and...

Improving Code Quality in Agile Software Development

Agile software development is a popular approach for developing software. Another important topic of research in software engineering is code quality. Unfortunately, a minimal amount of extensive research has been done on how these two influence each other. The goal of this study is therefore to explore the connection between these two using a...

Increasing Operational Awareness using Monitoring-Aware IDEs

It is important to detect problems fast and to have a clear overview of what is happening within a system after deployment to maximize the uptime and functional quality of the system. Therefore it is necessary to increase the awareness that developers have of errors and logs. Increasing the awareness that developers have of errors and logs has a...

Breaking the filter-bubble: Using visualizations to encourage blind-spots exploration

In recent years, personalized recommender systems have been facing criticism in research due to their ability to trap users in their circle of choices, called "filter-bubble", thereby limiting their exposure to novel content. In solving the issue of filter-bubble, past research has focused on providing explanations to users about how a...

Measuring Progress in Music Rehearsals

Practice is an essential part of learning and performing a piece of music. The goal of this thesis is to develop a system for analysing audio recordings of music rehearsals that aids the musician in their studies. We gather audio recordings of rehearsals from pianists and develop two key measures based on these recordings: 1. match distribution,...