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Zehntner, Johanna (author)The thesis critically examines existing dichotomies in the spatial and tem- poral aspects of (elder)care provision ranging from concepts of private and public space, over the family, the welfare state, and the private market as central units of care. Moreover, it actively questions the contemporary spa- tial representations of these three units...master thesis 2024
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van Kampen, Kimberley (author)Children with disabilities (CwD) experience many barriers decreasing their quality of life and hindering their development. Child therapists support CwD and parents of children with disabilities (PCwD) to participate in daily activities. However, the child therapists indicated to be missing the practical tools to also facilitate inclusive...master thesis 2024
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Iftimescu, Vlad (author)Smoking has been one of the great threats to health in recent years, being strongly correlated with multiple negative health consequences, including lung cancer. Recent research suggests that artificial intelligence chatbots can be effective in persuading healthy behavior change. However, these chatbots usually rely on persuasive techniques to...bachelor thesis 2024
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Delis, Kristen (author)This research explores the evolving role of shopping malls in the lives of the growing elderly population in the Netherlands. Delving into the unique needs and desires of the elderly, the study emphasizes diversity, accessibility, community, and inclusivity within shopping centres. The research methodology integrates a comprehensive literature...master thesis 2024
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Hagendijk, Marije E. (author), Zipfel, Nina (author), Melles, M. (author), van der Wees, Philip J. (author), Hulshof, Carel T.J. (author), Çölkesen, Ersen B. (author), Hoving, Jan L. (author), van der Burg-Vermeulen, Sylvia J. (author)Purpose: To explore the experiences and needs concerning work-focused healthcare of patients experiencing problems with work participation due to cardiovascular disease based on all facets of person-centred care. Methods: Nineteen patients who experienced or continue to experience problems with work participation due to cardiovascular disease...journal article 2024
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Corti, L. (author), Oltmans, R.F.A. (author), Jung, Jiwon (author), Balayn, A.M.A. (author), Wijsenbeek, Marlies (author), Yang, J. (author)Clinicians increasingly pay attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the quality and timeliness of their services. There are converging opinions on the need for Explainable AI (XAI) in healthcare. However, prior work considers explanations as stationary entities with no account for the temporal dynamics of patient care. In this work,...conference paper 2024
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Schumacher, Vanessa (author)In special needs families, family dynamics are slightly different from the dynamics in other families. A child with special health care or educational needs requires a lot of attention and special care treatment from all family members. The parents‘ attention is mainly shifted to the care needs of the brother or sister and the siblings are...master thesis 2023
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Kleine Punte, Karlijn (author)The amount of elderly people in the Netherlands is increasing rapidly. In conjunction with the individualization of the population, this has led to a number of problems. There is a lack of suitable houses for the elderly, a lack of money and nursing staff in the health care sector and a high rate of loneliness among the population. New housing...master thesis 2023
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Daily Bread: An exploration of how we should deal with our primary needs: food, warmth and communityde van der Schueren, Paulien (author)The project is situated in the neighbourhood of Bressoux in the post-industrial city Liege in Belgium. Bressoux felt at first as a deserted place. It gave the impression that only people live here because of financial necessity. The people with better jobs move away, the ones left behind seem forgotten and neglected. “The winner takes it all!”...master thesis 2023
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Bouman, N.L.J. (author), Simonse, LWL (author)Purpose – Engaging with customers and addressing unmet value have become increasingly challenging within multi-stakeholder environments of service innovation. Therefore, this paper aims to address this challenge by studying how strategic design abilities address unmet value in service engagement strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The...journal article 2023
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Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Indoor environmental quality is still described with quantitative dose-related indicators, expressed in number and/or ranges of numbers for each of the factors (indoor air, lighting, acoustics, and thermal aspects). Interactions of stressors and effects at and between human and environment level are ignored. Individual differences in needs and...conference paper 2023
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Huang, S. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)The relevance of human needs is generally recognized in human-centered design research and practice. However, a challenge of working with needs is that the word “need” can be interpreted in various ways, which can hinder effective communication and collaboration. Need typologies, in such cases, can serve as a shared language by providing an...conference paper 2023
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Zou, Y. (author), Borst, C. (author)To facilitate a smooth integration of drones into the current Air Traffic Management (ATM) system, Unmanned Air Traffic Management (UTM) systems, services and protocols are currently under development. Unlike current ATM, UTM will rely on high levels of automation. This is potentially problematic, because 100% safe and reliable automation under...conference paper 2023
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Gomez Beldarrain, G. (author), van der Maden, W.L.A. (author), Huang, S. (author), Kim, E.Y. (author)Autonomous products (e.g., home cleaning robots, smart fridges, or autonomous vehicles) take over tasks that require time and effort from their users, redefining both the user roles and context around a product. Consequently, meaningful user experiences should be designed to overcome the risk of relegating humans to undesirable tasks and to take...conference paper 2023
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Koller, Monika (author), Salzberger, Thomas (author), Floh, Arne (author), Zauner, Alexander (author), Sääksjärvi, Maria (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)Consumers evaluate products with all their senses but exhibit considerable variability in the extent to which they actively use and rely on a specific sense. We know little about the variability in consumers’ propensity to actively engage their sense of smell in the context of product evaluation in purchase decision making. This research...journal article 2023
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Bößner, Stefan (author), Xylia, Maria (author), Bilbao, Bibiana (author), Indriani, Siti N. (author), Laub, Moritz (author), Rahn, Eric (author), Virla, L.D. (author), Johnson, Francis X. (author)Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) reduce GHG emissions associated with land use and/or enhance terrestrial GHG sinks. This article investigates capacity gaps to successfully facilitate LMT adoption and/or scaling in the regions of Latin America, Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. We look at LMTs...journal article 2023
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Cong, Yangfan (author), Yu, Suihuai (author), Chu, Jianjie (author), Su, Zhaojing (author), Huang, Y. (author), Li, Feilong (author)Eliciting user needs from mass online reviews is playing a significant role in the product iteration process. Efficient user needs elicitation does achieve considerable benefits for maintaining higher competitiveness and a speedier lifecycle. However, there is inevitably an online review scarcity about new products due to the short time on...journal article 2023
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Hamida, A.B. (author), Zhang, D. (author), Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Sounds (e.g., human activity, nature, building systems) are one of the indoor environmental stimuli that may have positive and/or negative effects on students’ well-being and performance in educational buildings. Students in educational buildings have individual acoustical preferences and needs as portrayed by occupant-related indicators, for...journal article 2023
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van Houwelingen, Eva (author)The intensive care unit (ICU) is a dehumanizing technical environment causing complications that are all captured in the term post-intensive-care syndrome (PICS). The patient’s well-being could be improved by moving away from this hostile environment toward more patient-centred care. Therefore this report explores how to improve the daily ICU...master thesis 2022
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Gomez Beldarrain, Garoa (author)Vehicle automation will increasingly release car drivers from driving tasks, allowing them to engage in previously inconceivable activities. Experiential components are therefore expected to become central in human automotive mobility. In this context, the design of future in-vehicle experiences is a research gap to still discover, that concerns...master thesis 2022