For designers, materials and production processes are crucial to the creation and quality of products like tablecloth and clay jars. Nowadays, utilitarian objects are mass- produced, far away. This contributes to environmental degradation, ecological imbalance and a loss of crafts and knowledge. To understand …

Privacy concerns can potentially make camera-based object classification unsuitable for robot navigation. To address this problem, we propose a novel object classification system using only a 2D-LiDAR sensor on mobile robots. The proposed system enables semantic understanding of the environment by applying …

A report of an internship done at the University of Aberdeen. I solo developed a mixed reality VR game for a research paper about how cognitively demanding tasks impact long and short term memory. The paper covers topics like: How to help people interact with objects in VR, How to guide novice players …

This project focuses on addressing the needs of children with disabilities in Nepal through an occupational therapy perspective within the Inclusive Education Resource Classroom (IERC) established by SAMA Nepal. These classrooms provide resources, primarily in the form of playing material, but teachers …

Pedagogical approaches often assume fixed ontological positions, such as teacher-centered, curriculum-centered, child-centered, or world-centered perspectives, which tend to overlook the complexity of educational practice. These approaches limit educators’ ability to adaptively shift between diverse …

Crime script analysis as a methodology to analyse criminal processes is underdeveloped. This is apparent from the various approaches in which scholars apply crime scripting and present their cybercrime scripts. The plethora of scripting methods raise significant concerns about the reliability and validity …

Over the last five years, I have found myself circling around four key concepts: Performance. Philosophy. Animals. And Equality. And I have found myself thinking in and with circles. It began with the various references to circles we can find in the philosophy of Henri Bergson - in his idea of the field …

Exhibition of the 10 objects made by students in the One Plank Challenge (see related Pure record).

In het kader van de module ‘afstuderen’ van de Hogeschool Saxion te Deventer, is in semester 1 van academiejaar 2023-2024 een onderzoek uitgevoerd in opdracht van het bedrijf Tijdlab. Het doel van dit onderzoek was om een workflow te ontwikkelen voor het vervaardigen van transparante en accurate 3D-visualizaties …

Anyone who has watched a child play with soft semi-liquid materials like honey, frosting, or slime, sees the fascinating interplay between design and physics. Many of us remember these experiences from our own childhood (or maybe not that long ago). These materials dribble and coil as they stack upon …