BACKGROUND: There is a growing interest in empowering older adults to age in place by deploying various types of technology (ie, eHealth, ambient assisted living technology, smart home technology, and gerontechnology). However, initiatives aimed at implementing these technologies are complicated by the …

The municipality of Apeldoorn had polled the interest among its private home-owners to turn their homes energy neutral. Based on the enthusiastic response, Apeldoorn saw the launch of the Energy Apeldoorn (#ENEXAP) in 2011. Its goal was to convert to it technically and financially possible for privately …

The economic recession has hit especially hard the residential building sector in the EU region, e.g., the number of the housing completions has decreased -49% and the total residential output has been squeezed down by -24% between 2007 and 2014 (Euroconstruct, 2015). In turn, the aim of our paper is …

In de gezondheidszorg en preventie is het gebruik van ICT niet meer weg te denken. Doel van het gebruik van informatie- en communicatietechnologie via internet (ehealth) en apps (m-health) is om de gezondheid en de gezondheidszorg te ondersteunen en te verbeteren. E-health kan geheel zelfstandig door …

In deze scriptie wordt beschreven of het mogelijk is spiegeltherapie voor de hand te digitaliseren met behulp van de Oculus Rift en de Leap Motion. Er is hiervoor een programma gemaakt en daarna een meting gehouden om te onderzoeken of het programma een positief effect heeft. De hypothese was dat het …

In many European countries, higher education institutions outside the university sector now have a formal mandate to perform research related to regional needs and the improvement of education and professional practice (Kyvik & Lepori, 2010). The term 'new universities' will be used for those institutions. …

In 1949 the People's Republic of China emerged from a civil war with communist Mao Zedong as its victor. During the peak of Mao's rule China was completely isolated from the world. In the 1960's China lost the support of the Soviet Union due to failed policies such as the Great Leap Forward and various …