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Fielbaum, Andres (author), Ruiz, Felipe (author), Boccardo, Giorgio (author), Rubio, Daniela (author), Tirachini, Alejandro (author), Rosales-Salas, Jorge (author)Transport workers were among the most affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In several countries, public transport and delivery drivers were considered essential workers during the pandemic, while the demand changed dramatically. In this context, little is known about the actual effects of the pandemic on the lives of drivers, and whether those...journal article 2023
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Choenni, Arvind (author)Due to an increase in remote working concerns around mental and physical health are increasing. Most people are aware of this problem, but find it hard to improve their health. Recharge is a company that wants to help these people by providing an app where users experience an one-week Bootcamp. In this week they are challenged to try out new...master thesis 2022
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Boerkamp, Christiaan (author)Neuromodulation of the vagus nerve is used as a treatment for all kinds of ailments and even as a means of improving the wearer's physiology, however, this form of treatment is not popular due to its invasive nature, high chance of side effects, and short period between reimplementation surgery, as such an alternative is sought in the form of...master thesis 2022
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Engler Faleiros, D. (author), van den Bos, W. (author), Botto, L. (author), Scarano, F. (author)This work describes a modelling approach to SARS-CoV-2 dispersion based on experiments. The main goal is the development of an application integrated in Ansys Fluent to enable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) users to set up, in a relatively short time, complex simulations of virion-laden droplet dispersion for calculating the probability...journal article 2022
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Guillén, Georgina M. (author), Galeote, Daniel Fernández (author), Sicevic, Nevena (author), Hamari, Juho (author), Quist, J.N. (author)Mobile apps are ubiquitous, affecting our everyday practices because “there is always an app for that”. In this vein, there have been a significant number of apps devised to support people’s lifestyles to make them more sustainable. This study aims to draw an overview of gamified mobile apps for sustainable consumption. Following a systematic...conference paper 2022
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Jongeneel, Alyssa (author), Libedinsky, Ilan (author), Reinbergen, Anouk (author), Tromp, N. (author), Delespaul, Philippe (author), Riper, Heleen (author), van der Gaag, Mark (author), van den Berg, D.A. (author)Background: Temstem is a mobile application developed in cooperation with voice-hearing persons to help them cope with distressing voices. After psychoeducation about voice hearing, Temstem offers two functions: Silencing is a mode designed to inhibit voice activity through the processing of incompatible language; the Challenging mode...journal article 2022
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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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Anthopoulos, Leonidas (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Weerakkody, Vishanth (author)This is the 8th edition of the workshop series labeled "AW4City - Web Applications and Smart Cities", which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was held virtually in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop series aims to investigate the Web and Web...conference paper 2022
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Balaban, Ö. (author)Leisure walking (including running) is the easiest way to combat the lack of physical activity of urban residents. Hence, understanding what drives people to take a leisurely walk is vital for the design and planning of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods. In this chapter, we investigate and identify which (urban) features can define the...book chapter 2022
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Heeres, Pleun (author)Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, often caused by having too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun. An effect of this is that the part of the body that is exposed the most to the sun is also the body part where skin cancer is seen more often; the head. When the skin cancer gets removed surgically, the defect...master thesis 2021
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Khot, Rucha (author)Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy that include gestational hypertension are seen to complicate pregnancies worldwide. Even if hypertension resolves postpartum, these women are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular issues in the future. So, they are recommended lifelong lifestyle changes that include making adjustments to their diet...master thesis 2021
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Costanzo, Marise (author)The Covid-19 pandemic has outlined the creativeness of each country in the definition of the most appropriate public health management strategies to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ranging from total lockdowns to trusting in people’s common sense to act properly. Several non-pharmaceutical health interventions have nationally been...master thesis 2021
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Hallak, Daniela (author)The overwhelming majority of doctor visits are related to stress. When stress is studied the data is often not disaggregated based on gender, creating a gender data gap. Literature about mHealth apps with data analysis being disaggregated based on gender does not exist. In order to amend that, an experiment has been created where the perceived...master thesis 2021
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Torbus, Marek (author)The close app is a concept of a mobile application designed to help COVID-19 patients feel less isolated and lonely, therefore, closer to their loved ones with whom they cannot meet. The main principle of the application lies in fulfilling the fundamental needs of the patients and its family identified throughout the research. An isolated...master thesis 2021
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van den Brink, Corne (author)A smart home can be defined as a system of connected devices that are controlled remotely from one central place. Smart home solutions used to be for early adopters who like the novel and fun part of this new technology. Currently the smart Home market is moving to mainstream users. Hombli is a smart home brand established in 2019 in the...master thesis 2021
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Gkavra, R. (author)Travel time is an integral part of all human activities. In transport planning, travel time is one of the most widely used and significant parameters in the design of transport systems. However, people's ability to estimate travel time and time, in general, is limited. The aim of this thesis is to broaden the knowledge on the perception of...master thesis 2021
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Fitrianie, S. (author), Horsch, C.H.G. (author), Beun, Robbert Jan (author), Griffioen-Both, Fiemke (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author)A mobile app could be a powerful medium for providing individual support for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as facilitating therapy adherence. Little is known about factors that may explain the acceptance and uptake of such applications. This study, therefore, examines factors from an extended version of the Unified Theory of...journal article 2021
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Wit, Renate F. (author), Lucassen, Desiree A. (author), Beulen, Yvette H. (author), Faessen, Janine P. M. (author), Bos-de Vos, M. (author), van Dongen, Johanna M. (author), Feskens, Edith J. M. (author), Wagemakers, Annemarie (author), Brouwer-Brolsma, Elske M. (author)Prenatal nutrition is a key predictor of early-life development. However, despite mass campaigns to stimulate healthy nutrition during pregnancy, the diet of Dutch pregnant women is often suboptimal. Innovative technologies offer an opportunity to develop tailored tools, which resulted in the release of various apps on healthy nutrition...journal article 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Collewet, Marion (author), de Wit, G. Ardine (author), Rotteveel, Adrienne (author), Lambooij, Mattijs S. (author), Kessels, Roselinde (author)Objectives: Our study investigates the extent to which uptake of a COVID-19 digital contact-tracing (DCT) app among the Dutch population is affected by its configurations, its societal effects, and government policies toward such an app. Methods: We performed a discrete choice experiment among Dutch adults including 7 attributes, that is, who...journal article 2021
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Lucassen, Desiree A. (author), Lasschuijt, Marlou P. (author), Camps, Guido (author), Van Loo, Ellen J. (author), Fischer, Arnout R.H. (author), de Vries, Roelof A.J. (author), Haarman, Juliet A.M. (author), Simons, Monique (author), Bos-de Vos, M. (author)Overweight, obesity and cardiometabolic diseases are major global health concerns. Lifestyle factors, including diet, have been acknowledged to play a key role in the solution of these health risks. However, as shown by numerous studies, and in clinical practice, it is extremely challenging to quantify dietary behaviors as well as influencing...journal article 2021