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Groeneveld, B.S. (author)Innovative Product Service Systems (PSSs) are needed in order to keep the healthcare system affordable, while safeguarding or enhancing care quality. This study examined application of the Community-based Co-design approach to assistive technology development for informal care. A sequence of methods was applied, involving end-users and...master thesis 2013
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Leung, H.N.J. (author)Previous Planning by zoning in the area of Amsterdam West created distinct neighbourhoods, with a majority of immigrants living in the western districts while locals tend to inhabit the eastern districts near Jordaan. In addition, a new working/living area is planned to the North of the brettenzone. There are low incentives that the groups come...master thesis 2013
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Tai, H.N. (author)This graduation project focuses on the transformation of Willem van Rijn building in Landlust, Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam West. Landlust is currently having a number of social problems, such as social isolation, poverty, unemployment, etc. The area is under 'Amsterdamse Wijkaanpak', which aims to improve social problems in the neighborhood....master thesis 2013
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De Jonge, D.J. (author)Research | Guidelines for an Adaptable Community Center The research focuses on the transition of a so-called community center that has to adapt to several conditions in several chosen phases. Since the transitional community shelter is an entire separate structure that should function as an education and community center, and is designed and...master thesis 2013
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Smekta?a, M. (author)The site of the project -Teleport O, is situated in strategic position for the whole Amsterdam: at the transport hub – Sloterdijk station, and in one of the “green fingers” of Amsterdam, reaching the city centre. The qualities of the location are not efficiently used. The “green finger” is interrupted with the office area, where a lot of...master thesis 2013
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Groenenberg, E.O.K. (author)The Project Experiencing gorillas in the cloud is a graduation project that aims ‘to create a product for the Apenheul that enhances the user experience of a visit to the park using sensor data’. In Apenheul a network of sensors has been placed around the gorilla island, constantly gathering data about the gorillas. Gorillas In the Cloud was...master thesis 2013
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Gosteva, N. (author)Start-ups engage in entrepreneurial learning throughout their existence. Although the process is highly complex and difficult, they benefit from support offered by incubator. Elements of incubator support are able to create a positive environment with certain requirements that contribute to interorganisational learning and acquisition of...master thesis 2013
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Jurgenhake, B. (author)In a time in which 50% of the world inhabitants live in an urban context, a percentage that will definitely even grow, it is important to ask whether the residential building within daily public and anonymous city life still has the quality of privacy and identity of a ‘home’. The on-going PhD research “The façade as an intermediary element...conference paper 2013
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Sassen, A.C. (author)In this thesis an app is developed which supports an architect to address the right topics during his communication process with a client in order to optimize the alignment of the expectations with the realized project.master thesis 2013
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Pucci, E.L. (author)Globalization and the boom of new media technologies have rapidly changed the social dynamics of contemporary cities: increased mobility and migration waves determine new relationships between diverse ethnic groups who now share common urban spaces and facilities, while new mobile technologies allow the formation of hybrid (between virtual and...master thesis 2013
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Wu, J.C. (author)The graduation project is under supervision of TU Delft and ABN AMRO N.V. with the objective to strengthen and further develop an exclusive online community for the Next Generation clients of ABN AMRO. The Next Generation clients are the children of ABN AMRO’s top segment clients whose investable assets are more than EUR 25 million. The key...master thesis 2013
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Cruiming, R.R. (author)Recycling of a foreign modern architecture building which is now a vertical slum towards a more permanent residence for the present community with new socioeconomic development opportunities in the Mozambican neoliberal context.master thesis 2013
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Liu, D. (author)The infrastructure networks, including the Internet, telecommunication networks, electrical power grids, transportation networks (road, railway, waterway, and airway networks), gas networks and water networks, are becoming more and more complex. The complex infrastructure networks are crucial to our human society, and it has been a hot research ...doctoral thesis 2013
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Trajanovski, S. (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author), Martín-Hernández, J. (author), Van Mieghem, P. (author)Modularity is a quantitative measure for characterizing the existence of a community structure in a network. A network's modularity depends on the chosen partitioning of the network into communities, which makes finding the specific partition that leads to the maximum modularity a hard problem. In this paper, we prove that deciding whether a...journal article 2013
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Sluiman, J.V. (author)Internationally the health care system is under pressure and research aims to give insights in hospitals’ processes to identify areas where ef?ciency gains can be achieved. At the Rotterdam Eye Hospital a case study is conducted to track the location of patients throughout their hospital visit, collecting data about patients’ processes and...master thesis 2013
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Lu, H. (author)In this thesis, major attention is paid to cooperative diversity as an alternative way to achieve spatial diversity when the multiple antenna structure is not an option. By adopting the cooperative relay nodes to forward information, we can mitigate the fading effects, increase the capacity, lower the bit-error rate, increase the achievable...doctoral thesis 2013
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Bult, W. (author)As we work more and more while on the go, mobile collaborative applications will play an increasingly important role in our lives. We note that the conventional client/server model for these applications poses several shortcomings. The model is unintuitive and unnecessarily complex. Centralized servers further introduce cost, inflexibility, and...master thesis 2013
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Nik Ahmad Ariff, N.S. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author), Eris, O. (author), Suib, S.S.S.B. (author)In this study, we investigate the communication processes during sketching in design teams on theoretical and empirical levels, and propose two frameworks. The first one, the designcommunication block framework, categorizes the types of activities that take place during sketching, and constitutes the analysis scheme for the empirical dimension...conference paper 2012
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Nik Ahmad Ariff, N.S. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author), Eris, O. (author)In this paper, we present an exploratory protocol study on the use of different communication channels during design sketching. We focus on how individual designers share their mental models with other designers in a group, and analyze their use of graphical, textual, and verbal communications during concept generation. Our findings suggest that...journal article 2012
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Nik Ahmad Ariff, N.S. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author), Eris, O. (author)The present study investigates the relation between sketching and communication in teams during the idea generation process in early concept generation. A quasi-experiment study has been conducted with Masters students of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Six groups consisting of three students had to...conference paper 2012