Energy management and carbon accounting schemes are increasingly being adopted as a corporate response to climate change. These schemes often demand the setting of ambitious targets for the reduction of corporate greenhouse gas emissions. There is however only limited empirical insight in the companies’ …

Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate how a variety of research methods is commonly employed to study technology and practitioner cognition. User-interface issues with infusion pumps were selected as a case because of its relevance to patient safety. Methods: Starting from a Cognitive …

Horizontal collaborative purchasing (HCP) has often been cited as a way for hospitals to address the challenges of the rising healthcare costs. However, hospitals do not seem to utilize horizontal collaborative purchasing on any large scale, and recent initiatives have had mixed results. Focusing on …

Het voorliggende onderzoeksverslag inventariseert de effecten van het kabinetsbeleid op de bedrijfsvoering en dienstverlening van woningcorporaties. Hiervoor zijn 410 respondenten benaderd in augustus 2013 en is van 156 een volledig ingevulde enquête ontvangen. De enquête bestaat uit verschillende modules. …

Duurzaamheid speelt een steeds belangrijkere rol in onze hedendaagse samenleving. De Hogeschool Utrecht wil duurzaamheid dan ook integreren in de curricula van alle opleidingen. Dit artikel beschrijft hoe het Instituut voor ICT van de Hogeschool Utrecht een begin daarmee gemaakt heeft in het opleidingsprofiel …

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Dit document is één van de twee eindproducten voor de module Green Protorype Platform. In dit deel is te lezen hoe ons proces verlopen is en ook hoe we doelstellingen behaald hebben die vooraf gesteld zijn. Tot slot is een bondige beschrijving te lezen over urban farming. Dit is een samenvatting van …

Author supplied: The production system described in this paper in an im- plementation of an agile agent-based production system. This system is designed to meet the requirements of modern production, where short time to market, requirement-driven production and low cost small quan- tity production are …

This investigation explores relations between 1) a theory of human cognition, called Embodied Cognition, 2) the design of interactive systems and 3) the practice of ‘creative group meetings’ (of which the so-called ‘brainstorm’ is perhaps the best-known example). The investigation is one of Research-through-Design …

The importance of sustainability is rapidly increasing and by now has an increasing impact on the operations of organizations. In modern organizations many of the business processes are supported by IT, which makes the relation between sustainability and IT an important subject. However, how to integrate …