De EU investeert fors in de ontwikkeling van robotica. Europa heeft drie sectoren aangeduid waarin zij een groot potentieel voorzien als belangrijke toepassingsmarkten voor robotica, namelijk de maakindustrie, de gezondheidszorg en de agrarische sector (euRobotics aisbl, 2013). Ook binnen Nederland leeft …

Traditional turn-by-turn navigation approaches often do not provide sufficiently detailed information to help people with a visual impairment (PVI) to successfully navigate through an urban environment. To provide PVI with clear and supportive navigation information we created Sidewalk, a new wayfinding …

Wearable displays with augmented reality are in an early phase of adoption by the public. The uptake is slow and user studies regarding acceptance and use are scarce and have limitations to understand long-term use and their influence on daily life. The complexity of understanding long-term use requires …

Blended treatment – a combination of web-based and face-to-face therapy – is a promising eHealth service, supposedl combining “the best of both worlds”: the strengths of one mode of delivery may compensate for the weaknesses of the other.

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) in human services are on the rise and raise concerns about their place and impact on the daily activities of professionals and clients. This article describes a study in which a social mobile application was developed for job coaches and employees and …

For further development of technologies but also for the implementation in real life contexts, it is important to understand users' perspectives on the anticipated use of innovative technologies in an early development phase. In addition, it is also important to get a better understanding of the explanation …

This paper introduces the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and describes its evolution from a concept proposed by Kevin Ashton in 1999 through its public emergence in 2005 in a United Nations ITU report entitled “The Internet of Things”, to the present day where IoT devices are available as off-the-shelf products …

The temporal dimension of acceptance is under-researched in technology acceptance research. Yet, people’s perceptions on technology use may change over time when gaining user experiences. Our 6-month home study deploying an interactive robot provides insight into the long-term use of use interactive …