Wat te doen met gebouwen die al jaren leeg staan? Het herbestemmen van bijvoorbeeld kantoorpanden, is iets wat vaak gebeurt, denk maar aan het huisvesten van studenten in zulke leegstaande gebouwen. Maar wat te doen met complexe gebouwen in een uitdagende stedenbouwkundige context? Het vinden van een …

Online shoppen met mobiele devices als de smartphone en tablet nemen een steeds groter aandeel in van de gehele online shopping industrie. Het gemak is hier de grootste reden voor. Veel websites en shops spelen nog niet in op deze evolutie. Dit kan ervoor zorgen dat gebruikers de site vervolgens verlaten …

The creation of artifacts is one of the factors that make us human. Artifacts contribute to our continual adaptation to the world by permitting better knowledge and control of it. The focus of this chapter is on the role of one specific kind of artifact: sensors. In contrast to our immediate perception …

The maturing field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) results in long-lived deployments that produce large amounts of sensor data. Lightweight online on-mote processing may improve the usage of their limited resources, such as energy, by transmitting only unexpected sensor data (anomalies). We detect …

Floodproofing and climate adaptive building. Manila, february 2013

What drivers of change and cluster dynamics, in particular for energy clusters, are significant to cluster development and what revision might be needed for cluster theory?

Explanation of the Master Class programme. You can learn about: the objective, the target groups, the nature of the programme, the topics, the didactics and the duration. Proposal to the Opening Up partners to offer a Master Class in relation to the cluster Development.

Opening Up is bedoeld om een betere dienstverlening aan burgers en bedrijven te zoeken door de inzet van social media en open data.

Swarm planning is a theory and practical approach to deal with uncertain futures. By anticipating scenarios such as a ‘post-carbon’ world and a ‘pre-adaptive’ landscape, it offers an alternative pathway to prepare for medium-term incremental and step changes. The focus is on the regional scale with a …

This study investigated temporal changes in movement strategy and performance during fatiguing short-cycle work. Eighteen participants performed six 7-min work blocks with repetitive reaching movements at 0.5 Hz, each followed by a 5.5-min rest break for a total duration of 1 h. Electromyography (EMG) …