De term soft control wordt gebruikt voor een keur aan sturings- en beheersmaatregelen die organisaties helpen op koers te blijven. Ze hebben vooral betrekking op gedrag en cultuur. Uit ons inventariserend onderzoek blijkt dat er geen eenduidigheid over de definitie van soft control is en al helemaal …

The Utrecht Symptom Diary (USD) is a Dutch and adapted version of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, a patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) tool to asses and monitor symptoms in cancer patients. This study analyses the validity and responsiveness of the USD and the cutoff points to determine …

Brain & Technology is about the relationship between mind and technology, so about brain and lifelong learning, and therefore about the extended mind. More generally, humanity uses technology to outsource brain processes (mind) to smart devices, just as we partially outsource our digestion to cooking …

It is time for science and politics to take real responsibility for the "iatrogenesis" (pathogenic effect) of technology, instead of blindly investing in new disruptive technology. Even though the close link between technology and the economy seems to "force" it. Monocultures are both not natural, and …

If a pianist receives a completely different organized keyboard, (s)he would have to learn to play again. In digital technology this happens continuously. However, software companies show little or no awareness of this inadvertently “tweaking” users, and this is because we do not understand enough that …

A paradigm shift occurs when scientists stick to their model of reality (theory), while evidence begins to pile up that doesn 't fit in there. Often a group of relative outsiders is needed, for example a younger generation of scientists or scientists from a different discipline, who are first seen as …

Rich versus poor, rural versus urbanites, workers versus managers, the autistic versus the “normal”. Despite systems to “enlighten” truth (such as the rational enlightenment that heralded the scientific revolution), we will always have to feel and believe. Our knowing will always remain temporary, until …

We investigated online intead of onsite working and found that adult workers generally see the benefits of screen meetings much more than students. Students seem to miss social contacts enormously. Adult employees now have the chance to integrate work and private life. A culture of working from home …

Now that higher education is closed in Corona lock-down, schools are only going to continue very partially (“pretend” they 're still open), we run the risk of pricing ourselves out of the market. Because if it really is only about knowledge transfer, there are of course so many more interesting documentaries …

It is important to see that although every person is pure quality, people produce quantity. Quantity is not automatically quality. We have to learn to control (tame) the scalability - the quantity generator - without throwing that inalienable quality organism - humans - into the abyss. H