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Wolfert, Sandra (author)Outdoor play is declining, with negative consequences for children’s development, physical health, mental well being and social relations. More action is needed than the presence of a singular playground in a neighborhood to make outdoor play popular again in this digital and urbanized century. <br/><br/>This thesis studies how an urban...master thesis 2024
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Xu, Hongxin (author)Strong intergenerational relationships can provide emotional support and stability for both grandparents and grandchildren. Technology tools have been proven to be beneficial in connecting grandchildren and grandparents. Prior work mainly examined how to use technology to connect children and their grandparents over a distance. Those collocated...master thesis 2024
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Hutchinson, K. (author), van Zandwijk, Jan Peter (author), Vester, Marloes E.M. (author), Seth, A. (author), Bilo, Rob A.C. (author), van Rijn, Rick R. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author)Inflicted shaking trauma can cause injury in infants, but exact injury mechanisms remain unclear. Controversy exists, particularly in courts, whether additional causes such as impact are required to produce injuries found in cases of (suspected) shaking. Publication rates of studies on animal and biomechanical models of inflicted head injury...review 2024
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Hemmes, Charlotte (author)The Child Brain Lab (CBL), a part of the Paediatric Brain Centre at Sophia Children’s Hospital within the Erasmus Medical Centre, is a scientific research and testing facility dedicated to children with brain conditions (CB). These children frequently experience isolation and lack of social contact due to their situations. These observations...master thesis 2023
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Visser, Titus (author)Generative AI has had a profound impact on various sectors since mid-2022. The rapid adoption by students poses challenges for student assessment and raises concerns about student development. This thesis delves into the subject and proposes a positive implementation in education through play-based learning. The project uses a human-centred...master thesis 2023
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Liu, X. (author), Kayser, Manfred (author), Kushner, S.A. (author), Tiemeier, H (author), Rivadeneira, F (author), Jaddoe, Vincent (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Wolvius, E.B. (author), Roshchupkin, G.V. (author)STUDY QUESTION: Is there an association between low-to-moderate levels of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and children's facial shape? SUMMARY ANSWER: PAE before and during pregnancy, even at low level (<12 g of alcohol per week), was found associated with the facial shape of children, and these associations were found attenuated as...journal article 2023
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Chua, Victoria Y.H. (author), Liu, Hexin (author), Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia (author), Woon, Fei Ting (author), Wong, Jinyi (author), Zhang, X. (author), Khudanpur, Sanjeev (author), Khong, Andy W.H. (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author), Styles, Suzy J. (author)To enhance the reliability and robustness of language identification (LID) and language diarization (LD) systems for heterogeneous populations and scenarios, there is a need for speech processing models to be trained on datasets that feature diverse language registers and speech patterns. We present the MERLIon CCS challenge, featuring a...journal article 2023
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Styles, Suzy J. (author), Chua, Victoria Y.H. (author), Woon, Fei Ting (author), Liu, Hexin (author), Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia (author), Khudanpur, Sanjeev (author), Khong, Andy W.H. (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author)Language development experts need tools that can automatically identify languages from fluent, conversational speech and provide reliable estimates of usage rates at the level of an individual recording. However, LID systems are typically evaluated on metrics such as equal error rate and balanced accuracy, applied at the level of an entire...journal article 2023
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Das, Subasish (author), Tawhidur Rahman, Md (author), Kabir, Nuzhat (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author), Dey, Kakan (author), Mahmud Hossain, Md (author)Children are one of the most vulnerable population groups in traffic crashes. Child safety seats (CSSs) can reduce the severity of crash outcomes for children. The use of CSSs has significantly increased in the U.S. over the last 40 years, but the use of CSSs in popular ridesharing services (RSSs), such as Uber and Lyft, is not widespread. This...journal article 2023
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Nieuwenhuis, Jaap (author), Best, Matt (author), Vogel, Matt (author), van Ham, M. (author), Branje, Susan (author), Meeus, Wim (author)An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure to violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to...journal article 2023
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Persson Waye, Kerstin (author), Löve, Jesper (author), Lercher, Peter (author), Dzhambov, Angel M (author), Klatte, Maria (author), Schreckenberg, Dirk (author), Psyllidis, A. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Belke, Christin (author)Mental disorders among children and adolescents pose a significant global challenge. The exposome framework covering the totality of internal, social and physical exposures over a lifetime provides opportunities to better understand the causes of and processes related to mental health, and cognitive functioning. The paper presents a conceptual...journal article 2023
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Bilo, Rob A.C. (author), Vester, Marloes E.M. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author), Teeuw, Rian A.H. (author)Child abuse, irrespective of the type of child abuse, probably is the most prevalent risk factor for the development of children. Physical abuse is the type of abuse with the highest risk of infliction of injuries. The most injured organ due to physical abuse is the skin, with bruises being the most prevalent cutaneous injury. Other cutaneous...book chapter 2023
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Design of Child-robot Interactions for Comfort and Distraction from Post-operative Pain and DistressFerrari, Oriana Isabella (author), Zhang, Feiran (author), Braam, Ayrton A. (author), Van Gurp, Jules A.M. (author), Broz, F. (author), Barakova, Emilia I. (author)There are numerous strategies for reducing the stress and anxiety associated with pain that children experience before and after surgery. There is a potential communication barrier between hospital staff and the child which may result in inadequate pain management. Social robots may reduce the gap between the support that personnel can...conference paper 2023
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Zhang, Feiran (author), Broz, F. (author), Ferrari, Oriana (author), Barakova, Emilia (author)There is a growing interest in implementing robotics applications for children in healthcare to provide companionship, comfort, education, and therapy. Parental expectations regarding robotics for young children play a critical role in influencing its development and acceptance. However, parental expectations are widely overlooked in HRI....conference paper 2023
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Karaosmanoğlu, Eda (author)In Turkey, roughly 3000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every year (Kebudi, 2012). Although there are different types of pediatric cancers, their trajectory is similar and filled with various physical and psychosocial challenges for the patients and their families. Moreover, cancer usually causes a drastic life change for the...master thesis 2022
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Hoornaert, Britt (author)Density in a city puts a lot of pressure on the public space. As a result, public spaces are designed according to standard design rules, leaving the wishes of certain groups overlooked. This project aims to pay attention to a group of people who, while not involved in the design of the city, greatly profits from using it comfortably every day....master thesis 2022
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Heinen, Yade (author)In the future, the digital environment is increasingly determining how we are living together. Both young and old are being challenged in preparing themselves for a world they do not know yet. Children are growing up in a faster changing world than their parents, increasing the tension between parents and children in how they perceive the world...master thesis 2022
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Grundmann, Sharon (author)Around the world, child helplines through their services provide a safe and confidential space for children to be heard and empowered. The Dutch Kindertelefoon is one of such helplines providing counselling services to children via call and chat all year round. In this thesis, we explore the design of a conversational agent for training...master thesis 2022
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Wang, Ching-Fang (author)In the first two decades of the 21st century, urbanisation along with the virtualized social and educational methods, childhood today is increasingly becoming an indoor experience. Under urban densification, a high percentage of childhood is lacking outdoor activities, especially when nature is not accessible enough in the city. The range of the...master thesis 2022
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de Rouw, Jordy (author)The Netherlands is currently facing an overloaded housing market. This has the consequence that many people cannot find a suitable dwelling. To solve this issue the government made the plan to build one million houses between 2020 and 2030. Apart from the quantitative problem of too little houses what is even more important is to figure out what...master thesis 2022