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Ankle distractor: Design of a personalized hinged ankle distractor for people with end-stage ankle osteoarthritis

de Jong, Julia (author)

Ankle osteoarthritis (AOA) or degenerative joint disease (DJD ) of the ankle, is a progressive condition characteristic by the thinning of cartilage between the tibia and talus bone. Eventually, this leads to complete ankle joint loss. When looking at surgical treatments, joint sacrificing treatments are the golden standard. Young active people...

master thesis 2023

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Biomechanical loading behaviour of a knee joint distraction device as treatment for osteoarthritis

van Duijnhoven, Hugo (author)

master thesis 2023

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Is distraction on the road associated with maladaptive mobile phone use? A systematic review

Rahmillah, Fety Ilma (author), Tariq, Amina (author), King, Mark (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Maladaptive Mobile Phone Use (MMPU) (also known as Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Fear of Missing Out, or Problematic Mobile Phone Use) is a growing mental health problem. However, the health and safety consequences of MMPU remain unexplored in many real-life contexts. A potential setting where MMPU may have some negative repercussions is on...

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External and internal influences on mobile phone use while driving: Combining the theories of deterrence and self-determination

Truelove, Verity (author), Watson-Brown, Natalie (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Objectives: Various legal countermeasures have been introduced in numerous jurisdictions worldwide to reduce the risky behaviour of phone use while driving. However, external factors do not influence behaviour alone; internal factors may also play a large role in influencing behaviour. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the impact...

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“It is a different type of policing than in the bush”: Police officers’ perceptions of the differences in enforcement of the phone use while driving legislation in rural and urban areas

Truelove, Verity (author), Stefanidis, Kayla (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Mobile phone use while driving continues to be a significant road safety concern, despite the severe legal countermeasures to reduce this behaviour. Phone use while driving-related crashes have been demonstrated to be an issue in rural areas, yet research into the impact of legal sanctions on phone use while driving has primarily focussed on...

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Star rating of driver's behavior as a tool to prevent risky behavior

Tešić, Milan (author), Miladić-Tešić, Suzana (author), Folla, Katerina (author), Yannis, George (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Driver behavior is a key determinant of road safety. Risky behaviors can be measured and quantified using traditional and modern methods, which enables the assessment of the driver's behavior. Following lessons from safety science, it is important to analyse and manage risks factors to optimize interventions in the transport context at the...

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Police and public perspectives on the use and impacts of technology that expose enforcement locations for phone use while driving

Truelove, Verity (author), Stefanidis, Kayla (author), Mills, Laura (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Avoiding being caught and punished has consistently been demonstrated to be a key predictor of continued engagement in risky and illegal phone use while driving. This is a large concern, as the presence of applications such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, and social media pages/groups that share the location of enforcement activities related...

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The impact of road traffic context on secondary task engagement while driving

Cuentas-Hernandez, Sandra (author), Li, Xiaomeng (author), King, Mark J. (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Introduction: Driver distraction has been recognized for a long time as a significant road safety issue. It has been consistently reported that drivers spend considerable time engaged in activities that are secondary to the driving task. The temporary diversion of attention from safety-critical driving tasks has often been associated with...

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Road rule enforcement and where to find it: An investigation of applications used to avoid detection when violating traffic rules

Truelove, Verity (author), Nicolls, Michelle (author), Stefanidis, Kayla B. (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Introduction: One of the primary countermeasures in place to prevent road rule violations is legal enforcement, yet there are numerous applications that can undermine such efforts by notifying drivers of enforcement locations. However, the capabilities of these applications and how they can impact offending behavior is currently unknown. Method:...

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Digital Distraction Barrier Design: Using Lean startup to develop an app that creates intentional friction to create conscious phone usage

Smits, Tim (author)

Smartphones have revolutionized the way we live, giving us instant access to countless tools and apps (replacing dozens of single-function products), and this has made us more and more dependent on them. But there is another side, they are taking a heavy toll on our time and attention. Unpluq is a startup that aims to help people reclaim their...

master thesis 2022

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Cyclists’ handheld phone use and traffic rule knowledge

Brandt, Rebecca Karstens (author), Haustein, Sonja (author), Hagenzieker, M.P. (author), Møller, Mette (author)

Phone use is likely to distract cyclists and possibly increase crash risk. Therefore, handheld phone use among cyclists is forbidden by law in some countries, even though cyclists use compensatory strategies to attempt to mitigate distractions and related effects. Both demographic, environmental, and psychological factors have been associated...

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Workplace Focus for Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Vink, Aron (author)

ADHD has long been thought of as a children's disorder, that you grow out of during puberty. Now we know that this is not the case: 72% of children with ADHD still have it as adults, meaning that an estimated 2.1% of adults in the Netherlands have some form of ADHD. This means that these people still have symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity,...

master thesis 2021

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Assessing learner’s distraction in a multimodal platform for sustained attention in the remote learning context using mobile devices sensors

Di Giuseppe Deininger, Giuseppe (author)

During a learning task, keeping a steady attentive state is detrimental for good performance. A person is subject to distraction from different sources, among which distractions originating from within him or herself or from external sources, such as ambient sound. The detection of such distraction can improve the effectiveness of a task by...

bachelor thesis 2021

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Multimodal learning analytics on sustained attention by measuring ambient noise

Pronk, Jeffrey (author)

In this research, a learner’s sustained attention in the remote learning context will be studied by collecting data from different sensors. By combining the results of these sensors in a multi-modal analytics tool, the estimation of the learner’s sustained attention can hopefully be improved. This research will mainly focus on microphone...

bachelor thesis 2021

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How should external human-machine interfaces behave? Examining the effects of colour, position, message, activation distance, vehicle yielding, and visual distraction among 1,434 participants

Bazilinskyy, P. (author), Kooijman, L. (author), Dodou, D. (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)

External human-machine interfaces (eHMIs) may be useful for communicating the intention of an automated vehicle (AV) to a pedestrian, but it is unclear which eHMI design is most effective. In a crowdsourced experiment, we examined the effects of (1) colour (red, green, cyan), (2) position (roof, bumper, windshield), (3) message (WALK, DON'T...

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Improving the perception of waiting time through positive interactions at the G-gates of Schiphol

van Gent, Floor (author)

To achieve the ambition of providing a 9+ experience for every passenger, the Passenger Experience Platform develops concepts that improve on impactful touchpoints of the passenger journey. Increasing the passenger satisfaction contributes to the ambition of Schiphol to become Europe’s preferred airport. The departure gates are impactful...

master thesis 2020

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Impact of activity-based workplaces on burnout and engagement dimensions

Appel-Meulenbroek, Rianne (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Aussems, Rik (author), Le Blanc, Pascale (author), Arentze, Theo A. (author)

Purpose: This paper aims to explore, which characteristics of activity-based offices are related to the position of workers on the burnout – engagement continuum. Design/methodology/approach: Literature review and an online survey amongst knowledge workers in the Netherlands, which provided data of 184 respondents from 14 organisations. The...

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Haptic lane-keeping assistance for truck driving: A test track study

Roozendaal, Jeroen (author), Johansson, Emma (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author), Abbink, D.A. (author), Petermeijer, S.M. (author)

Objective: This study aims to compare the effectiveness and subjective acceptance of three designs for haptic lane-keeping assistance in truck driving. Background: Haptic lane-keeping assistance provides steering torques toward a reference trajectory, either continuously or only when exceeding a bandwidth. These approaches have been...

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Foster Individual Productivity at the Workplace

Gecaj, Dennis (author)

This project began with an interest in the productivity of the individual. How does the definition of productivity change when altering the perspective from a team to the individual? The context of this project is very intentionally limited to the individual workplace of an employee. The opportunities of an understanding of individual working...

master thesis 2019

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Effects of surgical flow disruptions on surgeons’ resources: a pilot study

van Houwelingen, B. C.G. (author), Rutkowski, A. F. (author), Ganni, S. (author), Stepaniak, P. S. (author), Jakimowicz, J. J. (author)

Background: Minimally invasive surgery requires surgeons to allocate more attention and efforts than open surgery. A surgeon’s pool of resource is affected by the multiple occurrences of interruptions and distractions in the operating room. Surgical flow disruption has been addressed from a quantitative perspective. However, little is known...

journal article 2019