As businesses shift their attention from marketing to customer experience, ABB has created a customer experience centre at their Stonehouse facility. Covering the customer needs and integration into the sales process were lost along the rapid development of the centre. Through interviews with visitors …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

Real-time location systems (RTLS) can be implemented in aged care for monitoring persons with wandering behaviour and asset management. RTLS can help retrieve personal items and assistive technologies that when lost or misplaced may have serious financial, economic and practical implications. Various …

Purpose – In the domain of healthcare, both process efficiency and the quality of care can be improved through the use of dedicated pervasive technologies. Among these applications are so-called real-time location systems (RTLS). Such systems are designed to determine and monitor the location of assets …

Politics defines many aspects of people’s lives, even when most of them are not directly involved in political processes and have no chance to do so. Born 2500 years ago in Athens, for broader public democracy became the way to influence their societies’ lives: discussions that were previously held behind …

Dit onderzoek in de vorm van een casestudy is een exploratie van de ervaringen die Bram opdeed in zijn schoolse carrière als gevolg van zijn dyslexie en van gedrag dat Bram helpt bij het oplossen van wiskundige vraagstukken. Ik selecteerde Bram op grond van zijn goede prestaties op wiskunde en zijn dyslexie. …

Objective: To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents with a physical disability. Methods: This controlled clinical trial included 71 children and adolescents from four schools …

Movement is an essential part of our lives. Throughout our lifetime, we acquire many different motor skills that are necessary to take care of ourselves (e.g., eating, dressing), to work (e.g., typing, using tools, care for others) and to pursue our hobbies (e.g., running, dancing, painting). However, …

BACKGROUND: A lack of physical activity is considered to cause 6% of deaths globally. Feedback from wearables such as activity trackers has the potential to encourage daily physical activity. To date, little research is available on the natural development of adherence to activity trackers or on potential …

Organisatie In opdracht van Servicepunt71 is dit onderzoek verricht. Eind 2010 hebben de gemeenten Leiderdorp, Leiden, Zoeterwoude en Oegstgeest gekozen om de bedrijfsvoering -in de vorm van een shared service center- samen te doen. Sinds 1 januari 2012 zorgt, de Gemeenschappelijke Regeling, Servicepunt71 …