This study has two major purposes, on one hand the analysis on the situation of rural Japan (including depopulation and community disappearance) and on the other hand Japan’s super-aging society and the way to continue living a safe and graceful life despite the disadvantage of ageing. To what extent …

Ubiquitous computing, new sensor technologies, and increasingly available and accessible algorithms for pattern recognition and machine learning enable automatic analysis and modeling of human behavior in many novel ways. In this introductory paper of the 6th International Workshop on Human Behavior …

Technology designed to sense behavior, often neglects to directly incorporate subjective input from (elderly) users. This paper presents experiences in deploying technology that considers the elderly user and their subjective input as a way to enrich sensor data systems and empower the user. For this …

Presentatie gegeven op het International Symposium Welfare Society Kochi University Japan d.d. 25-3-2014. Joost Degenaar was 1 van de 2 keynote sprekers (de andere was Margret Lepp van Gothenburg University). Aantal deelnemers: bijna 100.

Onderzoek dat antwoord geeft op de vraag: "Hoe kan een digitaal product de interactie van de bezoekers met tentoonstellingen in musea vergroten?"

Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has consistently been connected to committing crimes against humanity. The non-interventionist policies that were prevalent throughout the Cold War protected it from outside intervention. Indeed, any country could do as they pleased within its borders as state-sovereignty …

A new gravitation wave observatory is being built in Japan. This facility is a big Michelson interferometer where the mirrors and sensors will be made cryogenic down to 4 K. The problem is that: the heat cannot be transported out of the mirror by its surroundings because the whole system is in an ultra-high …

Initiatives in the field of local renewable energy appear to be very successful in several countries. Because of their activities, the share of renewable energy and the involvement of citizens and civil society organizations in energy transition have increased. Examples form Denmark are well known, but …

In this study, we present a new light absorption enhancement method for p-i-n thin film silicon solar cells using pyramidal surface structures, larger than the wavelength of visible light. Calculations show a maximum possible current enhancement of 45% compared with cells on a flat substrate. We deposited …