Mapping social context of sustainable attitudes using stakeholder analysis with discourse analysis: Investigating the maritime sector in order to provide knowledge about future technological pathways

Maritime sectors have been notorious for their slow paced innovation efforts and although it is an efficient sector, it has big impact on the environment just because of the size of the industry (M. Rahim, et al. 2016). There is a lot of activity on the seas, changes in this sector could make a big difference when making our world become more...

Cultural Differences and Similarities in Perceptions of Artificial Social Agents Between German and Chinese Speakers

The Artificial Social Agent(ASA) questionnaire serves as a tool to assess the interaction between humans and ASA\cite{OGQuestionnaire}. In an effort to increase the number of people who can make use of the questionnaire, previous work has been done to translate this questionnaire to Mandarin Chinese\cite{Chinese}. To increase the number of...

Perceptions of Artificial Social Agents: The cultural similarities and differences between Dutch and Chinese speakers in their perception of artificial social agents

Artificial social agents (ASAs) are systems designed to interact with humans in a socially intelligent manner. As the field of robotics is rapidly advancing, some studies focused on creating more effective agents by analysing how people perceive them. However, culture affects people’s perception of ASAs. So, cultural aspects must be examined in...

Exploration of the code review process:: Can a code review checklist improve the process?

In the software engineering field the code review process has been widely adopted as a quality control, in the current day code reviews have also multiple additional advantages. In this research we explored how the code review process is used at Greenchoice, a Dutch energy supplier. Subsequently, we created a code review checklist which was used...

Schema mode assessment through a conversational agent

Schema therapy is a psychotherapy for treatment of personality disorders and other psychological disorders. An important element of schema therapy is determining a patient's schema modes, a concept central to deciding the treatment approach. The objective of this work was to evaluate whether assessment of these schema modes is possible through a...

PrEmo Toolkit: Measuring emotions for design research

The product generated in this project aims to develop offline version of an emotion measure instrument and the objective of the project is to combining the convenience of physical product and the clarity of animations. By analysing some other emotion measurement instrument as well as previous work of PrEmo, some opportunities that could help to...

User experience in social virtual reality: Exploring methodologies for evaluating user experience in social virtual reality

Nowadays, social interaction is often mediated by technology, which makes it possible for people to interact with each other when they are separated. However, most of these technologies target the interaction between 'weak ties' and they cannot support the naturalness and richness offered through face-to-face interaction. Recently, a new type of...

DESIGNHUIS: Powerhouse for Transformation

This Master thesis report covers the process of developing a service platform for the facilitation of the creative industry in collaboration with the DesignHu- is, based in Eindhoven. Using input from the community in Eindhoven a po- sitioning statement is made for the DesignHuis and the needs of the Creative community in Eindhoven. Based on the...

Empirical Investigation of Strategy-Based Lane Change Choice: A driving experiment and questionnaire

Influence of Steering System Imperfections on Truck Steering Feel | a driving simulator study

Road safety is a prime concern in modern society. Statistics on traffic accidents show that articulated vehicles are overrepresented in fatal accidents. A third of all accidents happen during a vehicle maneuver with small lateral displacements: on-center handling. Stable guidance and handling behavior of the vehicle is mainly determined by its...

Adaptive Cruise Control in Practice: A Field Study and Questionnaire into its influence on Driver, Traffic Flows and Safety

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is a system present which enables the car to autonomously maintain a certain speed, and based on the location and the speed of the predecessor, change the speed of the vehicle. This research is meant to determine the influence of ACC on the behavior of the driver, and on flows and safety on the road. Three databases...

Approach to collect leading indicators in major accident areas

Major Accidents have the potential to endanger multiple lives, the environment but also the market position of even the biggest companies in the world. In the past we have seen various major accidents in the Oil & Gas Industry, one of the most recent and best known is the Macondo Blowout a.k.a. Deepwater Horizon Explosion that killed eleven...

Realising Transformation through Simulation: A universal indicator for transformation by using serious gaming

Municipalities in the Netherlands are required to improve the quality of the public services and become more accessible through the internet. Theory on transformation says that to acquire that goal these government organisations must transform their organisational structure to become more process and chain based. A lot of municipalities appear...