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 …

Hintergrund: Die Nasalierungsmethode ist eine besondere Resonanzmethode, die durch Johannes Pahn zur Prävention und Behandlung von Stimmstörungen entwickelt wurde. Die Methode wurde vor allem 1978 in den Niederlanden durch Workshops und Kursen von Pahn eingeführt. In Deutschland scheint die Methode weniger …

Theatre of improvisation: creative session.Conference on evoking Excellence in Higher Education and Beyond. Groningen, Hanzehogeschool, 5 oktober 2012.Om creativiteit te stimuleren, wordt op het Hanze Institute of Technology in Assen les gegeven in improvisatietheater. Studenten volgen workshops met …

Creative Workshops with the Elderly. Presentation in session ‘Healthy Ageing through Music’. Presentations: - Evert Bisschop Boele: Creative Workshops with the Elderly World Conference ISME, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20/7/2012

The project Rhythm for Life has had a parallel project in Groningen, with the projects Learning to play an instrument at an elderly age and Creative workshops for the elderly. These were carried out in Groningen at the PCC in the framework of the research line HAMA of the research group LLMA. The second …

Presentation ‘Healthy Ageing through Music and the Arts’, EU Intensive Project Schools of Health Care/Social Studies, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 1/2/2012

Een van de grootste uitdagingen voor de meeste hedendaagse Europese samenlevingen is de toenemende vergrijzing. Ondanks het feit dat 65-plussers over minder dan dertig jaar bijna een kwart van de bevolking zullen uitmaken, legt onze moderne maatschappij steeds meer nadruk op jeugdigheid en worden ouderen …

The Business and Marketing Communication Plan for the QualityTourism Awards aims to understand the current market situation in the tourism industry, along with finding the most appropriate marketing and communication tools to introduce the new QualityTourism Awards to the tourism market. Furthermore, …

The survey on ‘Doing Business in Germany’ (2010), conducted by the CBRD research project (Cross-Media, Brand, Reputation & Design Management), helped identify key principles for doing business internationally. As the study shows, self-analysis by the Dutch agency or individual designer is at least as …