Social media is becoming vitally important in today’s world. Big corporates and small companies both make use of it as part of their online marketing strategy (Ramachandran, 2014). It is a cheap, easy and it is a fast way to connect with customers, create dialogue and reach the mass. Consulting companies …

Visualizing news is increasingly considered an apt way for dealing with two challenges of modern journalism: disclosing big data and presenting complex information in a way that is easy to comprehend. Newsrooms are trying their hand at it, and finding ways to organize the production of information visualizations …

An overview of whole body scanners in 1998 (H.A.M. Daanen, G.J. Van De Water. Whole body scanners, Displays 19 (1998) 111–120) shortly after they emerged to the market revealed that the systems were bulky, slow, expensive and low in resolution. This update shows that new developments in sensing and processing …

Athor supplied : "This paper describes an agent-based architecture for domotics. This architecture is based on requirements about expandability and hardware independence. The heart of the system is a multi-agent system. This system is distributed over several platforms to open the possibility to tie …

This study is performed to observe the effects of a Rock and Water training on social competence in the child and adolescent psychiatry Karakter Zetten. Karakter and health insurers raised the question for evidence based practice (EBP) programs in the psychomotor therapy. There are two types of interventions …

Besparen op het onderhoud van de openbare ruimte is in tijden van bezuinigingen easy money. Maar ook hier is goedkoop duurkoop. Een onaantrekkelijke omgeving trekt alles naar beneden. Dit artikel, geschreven door Cees-Jan Pen (Platform31) en Jan-Willem Wesselink (Stedelijk Interieur) verscheen op 29 …

De ruime geldpolitiek van de FED zal ooit worden afgebouwd. Maar dat zal heel behoedzaam gebeuren.

In its past, terrorism has evolved from old terrorism into new, even more catastrophic terrorism. Today, hundreds or even thousands of people can become victim from one moment to the other, through which the fear for terrorist attacks has increased a lot lately. Next to that, Europe has become much more …

In 2007, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations initiated the program 'Veilige Publieke Taak'. It was designed to provide employers with guidelines and solutions for handling aggression and violence towards employees with a public task. One of the most important initiatives of this …

Large groups in society lack the necessary skills to be sufficiently self-reliant and are in need of personal assistance. These groups could be supported by information and information technology (ICT), but only if this technology is designed to fit their (cognitive) abilities. Inclusive design theory …