The Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology employs many students during research projects. This paper discusses a series of student design projects on safety helmets in the Safety@Work project. At construction sites workers are required to wear personal protective equipment during their work. …

The Internet offers many opportunities to provide parenting support. An overview of empirical studies in this domain is lacking, and little is known about the design of webbased parenting resources and their evaluations, raising questions about its position in the context of parenting intervention programs. …

Until a decade ago, Dutch beachwear brand Beachlife had a strong position in the Dutch marketplace, however, in the past years their market share decreased. Beachlife became less visible and less known to the target group. Brand awareness has been acknowledged to be an essential aspect of marketing and …

Cordaid, one of the biggest development organisations in the Netherlands, works on several topics to reduce poverty all over the world. One particular topic is Urban Matters that designs smart solutions for slums. Cordaid Urban Matters has given the assignment to conduct research regarding successful …

Raising brand awareness of Radii Footwear in order to increase customer responsiveness in the Netherlands.

The Development Oriented Triangulation (DOT) framework in this paper can spark and focus the debate about mixed-method approaches in HCI. The framework can be used to classify HCI methods, create mixed-method designs, and to align research activities in multidisciplinary projects. The framework is generic …

The Internet offers many opportunities to provide parenting support. An overview of empirical studies in this domain is lacking, and little is known about the design of web based parenting resources and their evaluations, raising questions about its position in the context of parenting intervention programs. …

professional development through informal learning In planning professional development for teachers or teacher educators, very often a formal course or training is offered. There is a lack of attention for the fact that a lot of professional development takes place at work through so-called workplace-learning …

This chapter is about the development of tourism in the Dutch Wadden Sea Region in combination with nature conservation. The main question is whether they have a common future. There are some future points stated: - Nature and landscape of the Wadden Sea are the main pull factors for the tourism development. …

Contemporary dance needs to pull in a bigger younger audience. However in order to appreciate this medium cognitive processes are needed of a high aesthetic level. These are processes only partially developed in young teenagers and even adults, according to aesthetic developmental theorists. Gardner’s …