Requirements for a virtual environment to support the social participation education of low-literates

People of low literacy experience difficulties while participating in society. Learning support software could help alleviate these difficulties. However, there is currently no overview of theoretically and empirically sound requirements for this kind of support. This paper uses the situated cognitive engineering method to create a...

Adding Ethical Values to Situated Cognitive Engineering

The subject of this master thesis is to add ethical values to the Situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) design methodology by combining it with Value Sensitive Design (VSD). The new methodology called sCEThics was implemented in the Situated Cognitive Engineering Tool by TNO and evaluated with users of the tool mainly based on the usefulness of...

Woede therapie in een virtuele omgeving - Een prototype van een systeem voor het gebruik van virtual reality bij therapie van agressie management bij jong-volwassenen

Dit rapport bevat het verslag van met maken van een prototype voor woede therapie, met behulp van een virtuele omgeving. Met behulp van Situated Cognitive Engineering zijn er drie prototypes ontwikkeld, een paperprototype, een low-fidelity prototype en een high fidelity prototype. Het uiteindelijke prototype is onderzocht door gebruik van een...

The Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Modal Memory Restructuring System for patients suffering from a combat-related PTSD

This thesis discusses a new and unexplored concept which uses computer assisted technology to support trauma-focused psychotherapy, focusing on restructuring and relearning of past events. The proposed application allows patients and therapist to visualize the patient’s past experience using maps, personal photos, stories and self created 3D...

RubbleViewer: Communicating for situation awareness in the urban search and rescue domain

The current way of communicating situation awareness through sketches has been found not sufficient as is seen during exercises of usar.nl. The proposed solution RubbleViewer presents the personnel with a 3d map where they can annotate information on. This map of a collapsed building is calculated by running photogrammetric algorithms on an...