At the location along the Westerschelde and the sea locks, Terneuzen offers a thriving industrial economy and comfortable living. Yet, it is also a fringe area secluded from national infrastructures, which competes hardly with other, more attractive places in Zeeuws Vlaanderen and Vlaanderen in Belgium. …

This paper introduces the open-source Urban Belonging (UB) toolkit, designed to study place attachments through a combined digital, visual and participatory methodology that foregrounds lived experience. The core of the toolkit is the photovoice UB App, which prompts participants to document urban experiences …

The concept of human-computer integration (HInt) is entering a new evolutionary phase, that leads to a paradigm shift from interaction to the integration of computing devices with the human body (Farooq & Grudin, 2017). This embodied integration, where a computer tightly integrates with the human body …

Presentation: Local and flexible, three case studies of innovative community energy services

Het debat rond politiserende praktijken is steeds luider te horen (Kaulingfreks, 2022; Van Bouchaute & Vanderhulst, 2022), hoewel nog regelmatig ‘over de hoofden’ van werkers gevoerd. Sociaal werkers geven hun normatieve professionaliteit vorm in ‘rommelige’ of ‘modderige’ contexten, waarbij door reflectie …

This position paper is part of a long-term research project on human-machine co-creativity with older adults. The goal is to investigate how robots and AI-generated content can contribute to older adults’ creative experiences, with a focus on collaborative drawing and painting. The research has recently …

Green gas is an attractive option for a local energy transition to combat climate change, notably in rural communities. As local initiatives require local acceptance, the study used a questionnaire methodology to capture opinions and intentions toward green gas in a panel of rural respondents (N = 403) …

Context Retirement is an opportune time for people to establish new healthy routines. Exercise and nutritional interventions are promising in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenic obesity. Objective This systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of nutritional and exercise interventions …