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Mispelblom Beijer, Juerd (author)This project develops a novel assistive technology for aiding in mobility of the Visually Impaired in collaboration with Royal Visio. This technology provides VIPs with a dynamic tactile map of their environment to improve spatial awareness. The aim is to improve overview, wayfinding and orientation, while also improving the overall mobility...master thesis 2024
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Ghorbani Moghadam, Rojin (author)This thesis explores the challenges faced by students with vision impairment in accessing visual educational content, with the goal of designing an inclusive tool to enhance their learning experience. Adopting a human-centered design approach backed with value-sensitive design, the research methodology combined qualitative and quantitative...master thesis 2023
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Ko, Sylvia (author)Each year, 5.9 million tonnes of tea is consumed worldwide. However, this large consumption of tea also leads to large amounts of tea waste. Approximately 90% of steeped tea is being thrown away. This waste leads to problems such as environmental pollution. In order to combat this issue, Tea Clay was previously developed as a material made from...master thesis 2023
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Juffermans, Ricardo (author)Pompe disease is a progressive muscular disorder that will affect the respiratory muscles, in particular the diaphragm, thereby seriously limiting the respiratory function. Respiratory function is typically assessed using spirometry. However early stages of diaphragm impairment may not be detected by conventional spirometry measurements due to...master thesis 2023
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Vollebregt, Frank (author)There are an estimated 253 million blind and visually impaired people in the world. To grant them access to text publications that contain images, experts are employed to write image descriptions. There is both a societal and a legislative pressure to supply image descriptions to all new and archived publications within a number of years, yet...master thesis 2023
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Kisjes, Hannah (author)This graduation project arose from Erasmus MC’s mission to continuously improve the patient experience. The results of the patient monitoring by Erasmus MC showed that an intervention at their ophthalmology outpatient clinic (OOC) could contribute to this objective. The patient satisfaction scores on wait time experience were very low at this...master thesis 2023
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van de Ruit, M.L. (author), van der Velden, Levinia L. (author), Onneweer, Bram (author), Benner, Joyce L. (author), Haarman, Claudia J.W. (author), Ribbers, G.M. (author), Selles, R.W. (author)Background: Upper limb impairments in a hemiparetic arm are clinically quantified by well-established clinical scales, known to suffer poor validity, reliability, and sensitivity. Alternatively, robotics can assess motor impairments by characterizing joint dynamics through system identification. In this study, we establish the merits of...journal article 2023
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Ghodrat, S. (author), Sandhir, P. (author), Huisman, G. (author)Wearable haptic assistive devices can provide tactile information to visually impaired people (VIP) to support independent living. However, electromechanical haptic feedback has a number of disadvantages, including hardware being relatively heavy, large, and producing excessive sound. Here, we present a design-driven investigation of the...journal article 2023
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Venkatraghavan, Vikram (author), Voort, Sebastian R.van der (author), Bos, Daniel (author), Smits, M. (author), Barkhof, Frederik (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Klein, Stefan (author), Bron, Esther E. (author)Computer-aided methods have shown added value for diagnosing and predicting brain disorders and can thus support decision making in clinical care and treatment planning. This chapter will provide insight into the type of methods, their working, their input data –such as cognitive tests, imaging, and genetic data– and the types of output they...book chapter 2023
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Durand, A.L.M. (author), Zijlstra, Toon (author)Introduction: Special Transport Services (STS), a.k.a. paratransit, help keep people with an impairment mobile. Yet these services face financial and organisational challenges. Public transport (PT) is usually seen as a way to alleviate some of these burdens. In fact, the discussion around the potential for PT to substitute STS has been on...journal article 2023
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Boyuklieva, Alina (author)In the recent years, many older buildings are being transformed into more sustainable zero-energy housing. However, next to its advantages, there are many challenges that still have to be tackled. One of the main ones is the mismatch between residents’ expectations and systems’ functioning. This report analyses the specific case of a demo...master thesis 2022
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Takada, Akari (author)With the rise of digital technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor technologies, all the products we use every day are increasingly becoming ‘intelligent’. Machines, objects, and tools are slowly evolving into robots, objects-with-intent (Rozendaal et al., 2019), and agents. At the same time, their capabilities...master thesis 2022
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Tchistiakov, A. A. (author), Kottsova, A. (author), Shvalyuk, E. V. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)This article describes the effects of different physico-chemical factors on formation damage caused by migration of in situ clay particles as a result of water injection into a clastic reservoir.journal article 2022
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Montilla, Y. M. (author), León Sánchez, C.A. (author), Lizarazo Salcedo, I. (author)Indoor navigation is a complex task for people and especially for visually impaired ones. This research proposes an indoor navigation system oriented to visually impaired users, integrating the OGC IndoorGML and CityGML standards with Bluetooth Low Energy devices (BLE) by using the RSSI signal loss value and the Weighted Path Loss-techniques...journal article 2022
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Berka, Jakub (author), Balata, Jan (author), Jonker, C.M. (author), Mikovec, Zdenek (author), van Riemsdijk, M. Birna (author), Tielman, M.L. (author)Disabled people can benefit greatly from assistive digital technologies. However, this increased human-machine symbiosis makes it important that systems are personalized and transparent to users. Existing work often uses data-oriented approaches. However, these approaches lack transparency and make it hard to influence the system’s behavior. In...journal article 2022
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Sandhir, Preeti (author)There are approximately 285 million people worldwide living with a visual impairment and the rate of acquired blindness is expected to continue increasing. Assistive technology for them is progressively being developed in order to enable independent living. For the blind and visually impaired, the tactile sense is the primary source of...master thesis 2021
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Chu, Yuxin (author)Visually impaired people should enjoy the same rights to acquire information as people with normal sight. Since visual contents become more and more pervasive in our daily life, image description becomes increasingly important to help visually impaired people to get equal access to the information contained in visual contents. However, how to...master thesis 2021
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Djenaihi, Walid‐Mahfoud (author), Zemmouri, Noureddine (author), Djenane, Moussadek (author), van Nes, A. (author)This contribution investigates the correlation between street noise levels and the spatial configuration of the street network in four different types of neighbourhoods in the Algerian city of Biskra. Space syntax methods are used to analyse spatial relationships, where accessibility, intelligibility, and legibility of urban spaces can be...journal article 2021
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van der Kruk, E. (author), Silverman, Anne K. (author), Reilly, Peter (author), Bull, Anthony M.J. (author)Capacity is the physiological ability of the neuromusculoskeletal systems; this declines with age. This decline in capacity may result in the inability to stand up (sit-to-stand, sit-to-walk), which is an important movement for independent living. Compensation, as a result of functional redundancy, is key in understanding how much age-related...review 2021
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van der Kruk, E. (author), Silverman, Anne K. (author), Koizia, Louis (author), Reilly, Peter (author), Fertleman, Michael (author), Bull, Anthony M.J. (author)The prevention, mitigation and treatment of movement impairments, ideally, requires early diagnosis or identification. As the human movement system has physiological and functional redundancy, movement limitations do not promptly arise at the onset of physical decline. A such, prediction of movement limitations is complex: it is unclear how...journal article 2021