This book offers a comprehensive, practice-based exploration of Systemic Co-Design (SCD) as it is applied to society’s most complex and urgent transitions. Drawing on collaborative projects from the Expertisenetwork Systemic Co-Design (ESC), it portrays Systemic Co-Design not as a fixed framework but …

This thesis aims to develop and validate a comprehensive and adaptable activity monitoring system that quantifies physical behaviours in children with and without developmental disabilities, including those utilizing assistive devices. This system seeks to overcome the current limitations in the accuracy …

De gezondheidszorg is in transitie en staat voor grote uitdagingen als het gaat om kwaliteit, toegankelijkheid en betaalbaarheid. De passende inzet van point of care technologie (POCT) en digitale (zelf)zorg kunnen hieraan een positieve bijdrage leveren, onder andere door het verbeteren van de arbeidsproductiviteit …

Utterances: Composing a Care- Informed Artistic Research Practice in the Cracks is a humble offering towards an alternative research practice that is guided by an ethics of care. It is an offering coaxed out of the side notes and the whispers of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, a collective formed within …

De wereld vergrijst en dat brengt uitdagingen met zich mee. Mensen worden ouder met meer aandoeningen en dementie is er daar één van. Geestelijke gezondheid is een groot goed en dat geldt ook voor mensen met dementie. De geestelijke gezondheid van mensen met dementie komt onder druk te staan door neuropsychiatrische …

De effecten van extreem weer (hitte, droogte, wateroverlast, bodem daling, waterkwaliteit) en zeespiegelstijging worden in toenemende mate gevoeld op de economie, de gebouwde omgeving en door mens en natuur. Wereldwijd en in de Rotterdamse stedelijke delta. Ook nu al. Om ons voor te bereiden op 2050, …

Research into automatic text simplification aims to promote access to information for all members of society. To facilitate generalizability, simplification research often abstracts away from specific use cases, and targets a prototypical reader and an underspecified content creator. In this paper, we …

This thesis addresses two important issues in midwifery: I) the care and support provided by midwives to women and their families facing vulnerable circumstances during pregnancy and childbirth, and II) the role and tasks of clinical midwives in Dutch hospitals.

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual reality come with many ethical and societal questions. In order to develop applications based on these technologies responsibly, businesses, governments and knowledge institutions are increasingly working together, and sometimes …

Living Labs are ‘open innovation ecosystems’, offering unique opportunities for conducting scientific experiments ‘in the wild’. Yet, Living Labs also support the generation of other, informal, types of knowledge: often tacit and difficult to capture and share, acquired outside of rigorous academic research …