The idea that merely viewing nature can promote stress recovery has profound societal implications, driving the use of nature imagery in the design of environments where access to real nature is limited. Scientific support for this concept originates from a pioneering study by Ulrich et al. (1991), which …

With Behind the Curtains, I aim to create a space where young women, like myself, can feel less alone as they navigate the emotional complexities of today’s dating world. In an era of ghosting, bread crumbing, yap-trapping, and other fleeting trends born from hookup culture, many of us are left feeling …

Een glazen lijnextensie ontwikkeld voor het merk Tupperware. Gericht op een jongere generatie, de Modern Day Homemaker, die het merk slechts kent als een generieke term voor vershoudbakjes. Met deze lijnextensie speelt Tupperware in op trends als quiet luxury, nostalgia, non-toxic living. Maakt duurzaamheid …

Dit experimentele onderzoek onderzocht het effect van Quiet Eye (QE)-instructies op het kijkgedrag en de schotnauwkeurigheid van basketballers met een gemiddeld (n = 10) en gevorderd (n = 10) ervaringsniveau. QE verwijst naar de laatste stabiele visuele fixatie op een doelwit vlak vóór een motorische …

Background The Wii Balance Board (WBB) is used as a rehabilitation tool for balance or strength interventions and posturography in balance tasks. Nonetheless, implementation of posturography using the WBB in a clinical setting is hampered by required technical skills for signal processing to obtain meaningful …

This paper presents a report of some of the activities of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Wind TCP Task 39. By identifying best practices in an international collaboration, Task 39 hopes to provide the scientific evidence to inform improved regulations and standards, increasing the effectiveness …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

In the Netherlands municipalities are searching for guidelines for a heat resilient design of the urban space. One of the guidelines which has recently been picked up is that each house should be within a 300 meter of an attractive cool spot outside. The reason is that houses might get too hot during …

We live in a hearing world. Others live in a deaf world. The deaf world has its own language, the sign language, Dutch or English or . . . Frisian. The deaf world also has its memorials, made out of stone. The only deaf memorial in the Netherlands --- and likely in the whole world --- is in Amsterdam, …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe whether and how groups of nursing home residents respond to the interactive device “the CRDL”. The CRDL can translate touches between people into sounds. It recognises the type of touch and adjusts the produced sound accordingly. Design/methodology/approach …