Abstraction is considered an essential aspect of computational thinking. Primary schools are starting to include computational thinking into the curriculum. However, in order to guide their support, teachers need to know how to recognize abstraction. In this paper, we present how we can observe abstraction …

De ontwikkelingen rondom toekomstige slimme steden worden in de lokale en regionale media maar mondjesmaat belicht. Als er over digitale ontwikkelingen geschreven wordt is dat met name positief gekleurd, zo blijkt althans uit het onderzoek Slimme Luis in een Digitale Pels dat het lectoraat Fontys Journalistiek …

AI wordt al met succes toegepast in E-discovery als machinelearningtechniek ten behoeve van predictive coding om slimmer e-mails en documenten te filteren en te clusteren. AI wordt ook al ingezet door opsporingsinstanties bij het automatisch zoeken naar afbeeldingen met wapens, drugs en bloot en naar …

This bachelor final project examines how the Dutch Ministry of Defence could enhance the number of female officers within in the organisation. The Dutch Ministry of Defence represents safety and peace in- and outside of the Netherlands. In the organisation, women are rarely represented. In 2017, solely …

Analysis of spontaneous speech is an important tool for clinical linguists to diagnose various types of neurodegenerative disease that affect the language processing areas. Prosody, fluency and voice quality may be affected in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD, degradation of voice quality, unstable …

Spontaneous speech is an important source of information for aphasia research. It is essential to collect the right amount of data: enough for distinctions in the data to become meaningful, but not so much that the data collection becomes too expensive or places an undue burden on participants. The latter …

Beyond the potential of new layers of urban infrastructure - sensor-laden networks, big data, artificial intelligence - to optimize cities functionally, lay promising opportunities to also use these technologies for new forms of social interactions. In an ongoing smart city development project, we explore …

This paper introduces the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and describes its evolution from a concept proposed by Kevin Ashton in 1999 through its public emergence in 2005 in a United Nations ITU report entitled “The Internet of Things”, to the present day where IoT devices are available as off-the-shelf products …

Cozmo is a real-life robot designed to interact with people playing games, making sounds, expressing emotions on a LCD screen and many other pre-programmable functions. We present the development and implementation of an educational platform for Cozmo mobile robot, with several features, including web …

Presentation for the directors of the foundation Spectrum Zorggroep Drenthe responsible for care of elderly people in the Dutch province of Drenthe.