Preface: This study is part of the collaboration between the School of Nursing from the HUAS with Diponegoro University in Semarang, Central Java and with the Hasanuddin University in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this study has been conducted online. In 2020 the COVID-19 virus …

In a matter of weeks last year, discussions regarding tourism in cities changed from how to deal with overtourism to how to deal with ‘no tourism’. Shortly thereafter, a great number of posts on LinkedIn, websites, and blogs highlighted how the tourism crisis that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic …

Due to Covid-19 the way of working changed rapidly. Also the change of the work environment accelerated. A ‘new normal’ emerges because organisations and employees have discovered the advantages of working from home. This influences the use of the offices and thereby the corresponding facilities. Dutch …

On 8 and 9 October 2020, the Reinwardt Academy hosted the digital conference Ethnology Lab on the Workings of Covid-19 on Museums. The programme was geared to address the challenges faced by museums and cultural heritage institutions in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These included some of the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of people’s lives, and seems to have affected people’s wellbeing and relation to technology now, and in the future. Not only has it changed people’s lives and the way citizens live, work, exercise, craft and stay connected, the pandemic has also altered …

Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced family-centred care dramatically due to restricting visiting policies. In this new situation, nurses were challenged to develop new approaches to involve family members in patient care. A better understanding of these changes and the experiences …

NOVA coordinates a group of three inflatable mobile planetariums which visit around 200 primary and secondary schools per year (~30,000 students/year). After an initial stop in activities (March-June 2020) due to the COVID-19 crisis, NOVA restarted school visits in July 2020 using a high quality flat-screen. …

ARS-CoV-2 can spread by close contact through large droplet spray and indirect contact via contaminated objects. There is mounting evidence that it can also be transmitted by inhalation of infected saliva aerosol particles. These particles are generated when breathing, talking, laughing, coughing or …

Abstract: Methods: Nurses were recruited from the psychogeriatric and somatic ward of five nursing homes in the Netherlands, from September to December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, semi-structured interviews were held with twenty nurses via Microsoft Teams. The intra-oral camera was demonstrated …

This goal of this paper was to find out: How could an avatar using inverse kinematics in first person perspective in Virtual Reality influence core gameplay? The definition of immersion and possible inverse kinematics solutions have been researched to test ways to improve gesture-based and other types …