Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits: associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment

We studied the relation between cumulative exposure to neighbourhood deprivation and adolescents’ Big Five personality traits, and the moderating role of personality in the relation between neighbourhood deprivation and the development of problem behaviour and educational attainment. We studied 5365 British adolescents from ages 10 to 16,...

Design for collective family experiences during online grocery shopping

Doing groceries is an inherent part of family life (Pettersson, Olsson, & Fjellström, 2004). Families are recognized as a unit for food choice and consumption. The influence of family members on food choices happens throughout family life and takes place in the private home or in the public sphere, mainly grocery stores. Picnic is an online...

Changing civil servants’ behaviour concerning the opening of governmental data.: Evaluating the effect of a game by comparing civil servants’ intentions before and after a game intervention

Open data policies are increasingly being adopted by governments. However, civil servants find it challenging to comply with open data policies. Gaming can help civil servants to practise opening data and can change their behaviour to support the opening of more data. In this article, the effect of playing a game is evaluated in an experiment...

Behaviour of cyclists and pedestrians near right angled, sloped and levelled kerb types: Do risks associated to height differences of kerbs weigh up against other factors?

To create a safer environment for bicyclists and pedestrians, the usefulness of different types of kerbs as a separation between these two modes has been questioned by both researchers and practitioners. Right angled kerbs pose risks to cyclists due to their height but are assumed to separate them well from pedestrians. Sloped and levelled kerb...

Design and evaluation of a personal robot playing a self-management education game with children with diabetes type 1

Objective To assess the effects of a personal robot, providing diabetes self-management education in a clinical setting on the pleasure, engagement and motivation to play a diabetes quiz of children (7–12) with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), and on their acquisition of knowledge about their illness. Methods Children with T1DM (N = 27)...

Traffic Safety of Kerbs

In the goal of creating a safer environment for bicyclists and pedestrians, there is an on-going debate about the usefulness of kerbs as a separation between these two modes. Right angled kerb types separate well but are not forgiving. Sloped and levelled kerb types are more forgiving, but the extent to which they separate is unknown. A video...