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Ordonhas Viseu Cardoso, R. (author), Meijers, E.J. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Burger, M.J. (author), de Vos, D.W. (author)Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential disadvantages of their choice. This paper uses...working paper 2017
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Kujala, S (author), Mugge, R. (author), Miron-Shatz, T. (author)We develop and test a model that suggests that expectations influence subjective usability and emotional experiences and, thereby, behavioral intentions to continue use and to recommend the service to others. A longitudinal study of 165 real-life users examined the proposed model in a proximity mobile payment domain at three time points: before...journal article 2017
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Ozkaramanli, D. (author), Ozcan Vieira, E. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)This paper suggests that designers can frame user behaviour in terms of the conflicts between long-term goals and immediate desires (i.e. self-control dilemmas), and address these conflicts by facilitating the pursuit of long-term goals. A phenomenological study provided an understanding of self-control dilemmas and the strategies people use to...journal article 2017
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Mekel, M.L. (author)Since the 19th century, the effect of the urban environment on the quality of life has been increasingly researched by spatial environment related disciplines. The discipline of urban planning has particularly focused on the negative values and the discipline of heritage on the positive values of the existing urban environment. Over the years...master thesis 2016
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Handayani, T.P. (author)Study towards subjective factor of QOL in developing countries is being underdeveloped. Moreover, QOL enhancements in developing countries are mostly focused on and through its objective factor. This might due to the correlated subjective factor to objective factor within the poor objective factor of QOL context. Those solutions considered as...master thesis 2016
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)How are we to appraise new technological developments that may bring revolutionary social changes? Currently this is often done by trying to predict or anticipate social consequences and to use these as a basis for moral and regulatory appraisal. Such an approach can, however, not deal with the uncertainties and unknowns that are inherent in...journal article 2016
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Shyrokau, B. (author), Loof, J. (author), Stroosma, O. (author), Wang, M. (author), Happee, R. (author)The steering behaviour in a driving simulator has a significant influence on a driving realism. This study investigates the influence of the complexity of a steering-system model on the subjective assessment of truck steering feel in on-centre handling. Ten subjects drove a highway task with and without lateral wind disturbance with 4 steering...conference paper 2015
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Van de Poel, I.R. (author)How are we to appraise new technological developments that may bring revolutionary social changes? Currently this is often done by trying to predict or anticipate social consequences and to use these as a basis for moral and regulatory appraisal. Such an approach can, however, not deal with the uncertainties and unknowns that are inherent in...journal article 2015
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Geerts, B.A.M. (author)The research is about traffic safety in school environments. It is investigated how much the subjective traffic safety perceived by the users of the environment can be objectively explained. In that way it can be determined how much influence a municipality has, in its role as road authority, in influencing the perceived traffic safety. In the...master thesis 2015
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Claus, J.J.H. (author)This thesis consists of two main parts: Part 1- A qualitative user study of ten interviews, referred to as Study 1, that is addressed in ‘Violins, ovens and hiking shoes: How experience enablers affect people’s subjective well-being in comparison to material- and experiential acquisitions’ Part 2- A quantitative user study of 209 participants...master thesis 2015
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Marques Ribeiro Da Silva Cas, M. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Because products are often discarded while still fully functioning, it may be possible to support durability with design that stimulates a more enduring product-owner relationship. This paper is based on the proposition that one promising approach to support such prolonged relevance is by developing products with a higher predisposition for the...conference paper 2015
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Jacobse, C.L.M. (author)This design project focused on the joy of early parenthood in contrast with the daily hassles young parents deal with when raising their infant(s). The project goal was to design a product that contributes to the subjective well-being of early parents and their infants by initiating a new and meaningful activity during dinner time in the context...master thesis 2015
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Koepsell, D.R. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author), Pont, S.C. (author)Human research ethics has developed in both theory and practice mostly from experiences in medical research. Human participants, however, are used in a much broader range of research than ethics committees oversee, including both basic and applied research at technical universities. Although mandated in the United States, the United Kingdom,...journal article 2014
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Petermans, A. (author), Pohlmeyer, A.E. (author)Can interior environments engage people in pleasurable and meaningful experiences and thereby have a positive influence on their happiness? This paper discusses why and how interior architects might want to consider implementing ideas in relation to ‘design for subjective well-being’. Despite of people being the ingredients that bring life to...conference paper 2014
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Jiminez, S. (author), Pohlmeyer, A.E. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Huzen, B.M.A. (author)This paper discusses an approach to possibility-driven design as an alternative to traditional problem-driven design approaches. the first parts discuss merits and challenges when design- ing for possibilities, and present some examples of existing design theories that exemplify the potential contribution of this view on design. Next, a five...conference paper 2014
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Rodionova, A. (author)The planning intention of many post-war urban areas was to create quiet and harmonious, healthy dwelling areas for mostly working class families. However, unpredicted effects such as safety issues (crime and feeling of being unsafe in public spaces) started to take place in many of these areas just a few years after realization (Van Wegen and...master thesis 2014
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Duste, T.F. (author)This graduation project redefines the interior of a Car2Go vehicle by using Design for happiness as explorative research. Design for Happiness is a fairly new term in the design world and is increasingly applied, though there is still no existing methodology. The outcomes of this report will be used as a case study for a scientific paper at the...master thesis 2014
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Hagendoorn, R.G.C. (author)Mental workload is an important subject in traffic safety research, however workload measurements are expensive and time intensive. To this end a measurement method is developed which uses short video fragments of driving situations to the subject, after which they are asked about their perceived mental effort if they would be driving through...master thesis 2014
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Ploum, I.D.J.M. (author)This project started off with gathering information on gratitude: what it is, how it can be practiced and how it contributes to subjective well-being. Amongst scientific papers, two specifically interesting books can be found: Gratitude works! (Emmons, R. A., 2013) and The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want ...master thesis 2014
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Van Egmond, R. (author), De Ridder, H. (author), Pappas, T.N. (author), Silva, P.M. (author)We investigate the effect of contrast enhancement on the subjective roughness of visual textures. Our analysis is based on subjective experiments with seventeen images from the CUReT database in three variants: original, synthesized textures, and contrast-enhanced synthesized textures. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to adjust the...conference paper 2014