Intelligent environments can offer support to people with early-stage dementia, who often experience problems with maintaining their circadian rhythm. The focus of this work is developing a prototype of an Intelligent Environment for assisting these people with their daily rhythm while living independently …

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 …

Occupational stress can cause health problems, productivity loss or absenteeism. Resilience interventions that help employees positively adapt to adversity can help prevent the negative consequences of occupational stress. Due to advances in sensor technology and smartphone applications, relatively unobtrusive …

The debate about the world wide web is of vital importance. Will it remain the democratic place of unconditional meeting and community building, or will it become a tool in the hands of governments, trillion dollar companies and the mafia, in order to secretly establish a dictatorship of control and …

The rehabilitation clinic I designed for severe gaming addicts is conceived as an architectural antidote to the digital world and is based on the principles of social reintegration and physical reconnection. The rehabilitation clinic provides a 12-week programme for 13-25-year-old gaming addicts, …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …

Research and publishing have always been closely related but are currently undergoing changes. Informed by technological and cultural developments, their practices and definitions are being debated. For new forms of interdisciplinary and artistic research, there is a corresponding need for new forms …

Op donderdag 8 november staat IT Academy colleges in het teken van gepersonaliseerde digitale gezondheid. Het college wordt verzorgd in samenwerking met het Lectoraat Personalized Digital Health (PDH) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Lector dr. Hilbrand Oldenhuis en promovendus Herman de Vries bespreken …

The Hybrid City’ proves that there are alternative ways to compact cities without compromising the quality of life, affordability, health and accessibility of the city. For this we have to review conventional ways of housing and living together. Network economies, the rise of digital possibilities and …