Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session user study (n = 113 children) that included a nine-month break between the third and fourth session. During the study, …

We kijken terug op het tweede jaar van het SPRONG Expertisenetwerk Systemisch Co-Design (ESC). In het eerste jaar hebben we gebouwd aan ons programmateam en ons partnernetwerk. In het tweede jaar zijn we vanuit de opgedane inzichten en gedeelde expertise aan de slag gegaan en hebben we een steviger (leer)programma …

This research investigates the digital and physical draping of fully-fashioned knit textiles, aiming to address challenges faced by knit manufacturers in achieving accurate virtual prototypes. Through a combination of literature review, case studies, and controlled experiments, methods for creating digital …

The study evaluated two speech recognition systems, Wav2vec2 and Whisper, for potential biases for Dutch speakers.Results obtained by evaluating on the JASMIN corpus revealed biases against non-native speakers, children, and the elderly,with (slightly) better performance for women. The study emphasizes …

Fashion design has rapidly become a digital process where textiles are simulated as soft, conformable materials on a digital body. The embodied experience and physical interaction with the textile have been replaced by screen-based media, resulting in a gap in understanding between physical and digital …

Het onderzoek in het kader Monitor creatieve industrie 2023 resulteert in een viertal hoofdconclusies: De creatieve industrie heeft de COVID-19 crisis, mede dankzij de geboden overheidssteun, goed doorstaan. De creatieve zakelijke dienstverlening, de bedrijfstak design in het bijzonder, levert een bijzonder …

In this paper we present an educational digital game, Function Dungeon, that we developed for learning about functions in a playful way. Results from a pilot conducted with fourteen 13-year-old students in a school in the Netherlands show that the game can foster ‘joyful practice’. That is, students …

Contemporary education increasingly involves a blended learning environment, which consists of a combination of offline and online delivery methods. Blended learning environments can motivate students to learn, but designing motivating blended learning environments is challenging and can result in environments …

The advent of the twenty-first century ushered in a new generation of fashiondesigners who merge design, artistic practice and research in a natural way. Theyuse artistic and activist interventions to revision fashion as a cultural and symbolicvalue-adding component integral to post-industrial restructuring …

Lecturers in higher education are expected to make use of the expanding amount of available resources when designing their courses(Baron & Zablot, 2015). This use of resources includes selecting, structuring and presenting materials; behaviour often referred to as curation (e.g. Anderson, 2015). Little …