Dit project gaat over het ontwikkelen van een software omgeving voor software distributie in de cloud. Dit project is uitgevoerd in opdracht van 3Di-waterbeheer en de werkzaamheden zijn op de TUDelft verricht. 3Di waterbeheer werkt aan het verbeteren van overstromingssimulaties. Hiervoor hebben ze een …

In this paper we present the concept and initial design stages of the TaSST (Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch). The TaSST consists of a soft pressure-sensitive input layer, and an output layer containing vibration motors. A touch to ones own sleeve is felt as a vibration on the sleeve of another person. …

In this paper we investigate the expression of emotions through mediated touch. Participants used the Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch (TaSST), a wearable sleeve that consists of a pressure sensitive input layer, and a vibration motor output layer, to record a number of expressions of discrete emotions. …

This paper describes the approach used to identify elderly people’s needs and attitudes towards applying ambient sensor systems for monitoring daily activities in the home. As elderly are typically unfamiliar with such ambient technology, interactive tools for explicating sensor monitoring –an interactive …

Sensor technology is increasingly applied for the purpose of monitoring elderly’s Activities of Daily Living (ADL), a set of activities used by physicians to benchmark physical and cognitive decline. Visualizing deviations in ADL can help medical specialists and nurses to recognize disease symptoms at …

Wireless sensor networks are becoming popular in the field of ambient assisted living. In this paper we report our study on the relationship between a functional health metric and features derived from the sensor data. Sensor systems are installed in the houses of nine people who are also quarterly visited …

In dit afstudeerverslag is het onderzoek opgenomen naar de invoering van Cloud Computing bij Group IT - International Systems (INTS). Naar aanleiding van de noodzaak van de afdeling INTS om haar producten en diensten goedkoper aan te kunnen bieden aan de klant is vanuit PostNL de vraag naar voren gekomen …

Deze scriptie is geschreven naar aanleiding van de afstudeeropdracht "Adviseren over de toekomstige inrichting van de server based computing omgeving, rekening houdend met flexibele groei". Het toekomstige advies stelt ingrijpende veranderingen voor om te migreren van het Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) …

Telehomecare is one of the technological solutions used by older persons to remain living at home in their own community. A selection of 85 Dutch telehomecare projects was examined in terms of the barriers to their implementation. Three categories of telehomecare technologies were distinguished: (i) …

The use of the word “social” in the context of information technology goes back to the very beginnings of cybernetics. It later pops up in the 1980s context of “groupware.” The recent materialist school of Friedrich Kittler and others dismissed the use of the word “social” as irrelevant fluff – what …