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Diaz Couder Breceda, Ileana (author)According to the WHO, dementia is one of the main causes of elderly dependency and disability worldwide. People with dementia are not the only ones affected. As the demand for care is high, families and caregivers experience physical, emotional, and sometimes financial stress. Up to date, there is no cure for dementia and its progression. The...master thesis 2020
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Alers, T.J. (author), Fennema, B.A. (author), van Breukelen, J.J. (author)Laryngectomised people (LP) have many problems with speaking in terms of intelligibility, volume and effort it takes. This thesis describes the design and simulation of a voice enhancement device which will improve the speech of LP with respect to intelligibility and volume. It only describes the chosen hardware peripherals in order to record,...bachelor thesis 2020
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de Vries, Josephine (author)All museum visitors should be able to go to any museum they like and observe the artworks they prefer. For visually impaired people this is often not the case, even though museums have a social responsibility to make their collections accessible for everyone. Especially since the United Nations agreed on the rights of persons with disabilities...master thesis 2020
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Bekker, Bernard (author)Large cities in the Netherlands, like Rotterdam, have hundreds of playgrounds, but local governments have little information on how children and adults use them. Usage data can help create playgrounds that better fit with the residents' needs by identifying what elements of a playground are the most popular, and which do not get used. The AMS...master thesis 2020
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Veenstra, Alex (author)The research was performed in order to design a roadmap for transforming the departure hall, by researching the way KLM could improve the customer departure journey. Hall capacity needs to grow to accommodate for an expected increase in passenger numbers: for welcoming, waiting, check-in, and baggage processing. Design roadmapping methodology is...master thesis 2020
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Hagenaars, Erik (author)People counting data in offices is used in many applications like HVAC system control and space management to increase comfort, decrease energy consumption and optimise space utilisation. In contrast to past approaches using imaging modalities that tend to be either expensive or intrusive, we consider single-pixel thermopile sensors for people...master thesis 2020
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van Wijk, Vera (author)A research on how to design affordable and sustainable housing for those affected by the gap in the housing market. It is getting more and more difficult for certain people to find suitable and affordable housing. They earn too much for social housing, but too little for the private sector or an owner-occupied housing. Especially in the city...master thesis 2019
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Rajkumar, Prashanth (author)The concept of collaboration has been used as an effective strategy to achieve an intended result by numerous entities across various points of time in history. Beginning from the societal nature of human civilisations and medieval kingdoms to its modern uses in trade and politics, collaboration has shaped the world in its many forms by creating...master thesis 2019
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Gong, Haotian (author)This project aims to improving the care service for people with dementia who exhibits BPSD (Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia) by providing the relevant stakeholders data insights, and meanwhile improving these people’s working efficiency.master thesis 2019
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Song, Yue (author)Improving the quality of urban spaces has always been the central concern for the urban designers. Street as the typical type of public spaces comprises more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide a space where people can safely walk, bicycle and socialize, this mainly because cars dramatically occupies most street...master thesis 2019
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Koot, Laura (author)This thesis is the final result of the graduation project of the master programme Design for Interaction at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft (Delft, The Netherlands). The project is done for the Delft Institute of Positive Design in collaboration with Marten van Doorn from Bartimeus. When glasses or contact lenses are...master thesis 2018
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Liu, Lu (author)During the last decades, people detection has received great attention in computer vision and pattern recognition because of its various applications. Though there are thousands of papers provide approaches for people detection, most of them focus on datasets from side view. People detection from overhead cameras, as an important situation for...master thesis 2018
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Gezgin, Kagan (author)The Dutch government has issued a legislation that follows the Paris Agreement of 2016. This legislation means that all office buildings in 2023 must have minimum energy label C while the ambition in 2030 is to have energy label A and in 2050 zero energy buildings. It is estimated that currently more than half of the office buildings in the...master thesis 2018
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Kattemölle, Anneloes (author)Het toenemende gebruik van de openbare Amsterdamse ruimte presenteert de gemeente van Amsterdam met de uitdaging om maatregelen treffen ter optimalisatie van duurzame benutting en ruimtelijke organisatie voor stadsplas de Nieuwe Meer. De kansen en ambities die voortvloeien uit deze uitdaging zijn opgenomen in verschillende gemeentelijke visies,...master thesis 2018
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Zhang, Shushen (author)The focus of the graduation studio AMS MID CITY is creating future scenarios through architectural design with as a testing ground the city of Amsterdam in 2050. The posed problem I encountered during my research on work in the future and the city is that the pace of the revolution of works grows faster than ever. So individuals have been forced...master thesis 2018
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Mu, Xiufan (author)The density of elderly population in Central City of Beijing is relatively high compare to that in peri urban area, which resulting in the urban disease, scarcity and low quality of public spaces in the city center. However, in Beijing, the main demands of elderly people have incline to the social needs and social participation, instead of...master thesis 2018
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van 't Klooster, Steven (author)Currently there are three methods of calculating the Dynamic Positioning capability of a vessel namely: static calculations, real-time time domain simulations and fast-time time domain simulations, although the outcome of the last two should be identical. In each of these methods a set of input variables is required to perform the calculations....master thesis 2018
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van den Breemer, Iris (author)This thesis is about improving the television experience of visually impaired people (VIP). The company VFO, world leading in assistive technology for VIP, proposed the assignment after finding out that VIP still watch television but do not experience it like sighted users. <br/><br/>First, background information was retrieved by literature...master thesis 2018
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van Bekhoven, Sjoerd (author)Voluntary employee turnover is the process of an employee voluntarily choosing to resign from a company. High voluntary turnover has been shown to have negative effect on both organisational and financial performance of companies. Therefore, if companies were to know which individuals would leave their company in the coming months, this would...master thesis 2017
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Psychoula, I. (author)The number of people affected by dementia is expected to rise to 135.5 million people over the course of the next two decades. Awaiting the discovery of a treatment able to cure dementia, current treatments focus on improving the social, physical, and emotional well-being of people with dementia. This thesis project aims to contribute to the...master thesis 2016