Are men from Mars, women from Venus? Investigating the determinants behind the intention to use fully automated taxis

Acceptance by customers is key to the success of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs). However, only a small group of early technology-savvy customers currently use such vehicles, while the general population does not. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, Theory of Perceived Risk, and perceived threat of unemployment...

Fostering spatial ability development in and for authentic STEM learning

Empirical interdisciplinary research has explored the role of spatial ability in STEM learning and achievement. While most of this research indicates that fostering spatial thinking in educational contexts has the potential to positively impact students’ enrollment and performance in STEM subjects, there is less agreement on the best approach...

Replicating five pupillometry studies of Eckhard Hess

Several papers by Eckhard Hess from the 1960s and 1970s report that the pupils dilate or constrict according to the interest value, arousing content, or mental demands of visual stimuli. However, Hess mostly used small sample sizes and undocumented luminance control. In a first experiment (N = 182) and a second preregistered experiment (N =...

Sex differences in longitudinal pathways from parenting to delinquency

In the current study, we examined longitudinally whether boys and girls differed in pathways from parenting to delinquency. Longitudinal mediational models were tested for boys and girls separately in which three parenting dimensions (i.e., monitoring, limit setting, and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship) were hypothesized to...

Gender differences in the evaluation of a risky technology

Research has been done on the gender differences in the evaluation of nanotechnology by Dutch TU Delft students. The research was executed using a questionnaire which was designed to examine if there are gender differences in the judgement of nanotechnology and if so, which variables play a significant role in this causal relations. Based on the...

Female power in packaging design

This report describes a graduation project for the master programme Integrated Product Design of the faculty Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The report describes a research concerning the influence of buyers’ gender differences on appealing packaging design and a redesign of whisky bottles based...

An empirical study on consumer information search behavior and experience in mobile shopping

This research, which is based on developments and innovations in mobile technology and attempts to provide guidance to applications of mobile retailing or shopping, focuses on Human Behavior and Interaction. A research framework is established with the thinking of customer relationship, which leads to 4 issues to be explored. Therefore, this...

Improving service matching and selection in ubiquitous computing environments: A user study