Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) is one of the instrumental phonetic research methods used for recording and assessing articulatory movements. Usually, articulographic data are analysed together with standard audio recordings. This paper, however, demonstrates how coupling the articulograph with …

In het verleden is aangetoond dat muziektraining mogelijk een positief effect op het gehoor zou hebben, namelijk: het verstaan onder slechte akoestische omstandigheden (verjaardagsfeest, etc.) en het waarnemen van prosodie, de ‘melodie’ van de taal. Dit verschijnsel heeft te maken met neurale ‘plasticiteit’: …

The following research seeks to enlarge the string quartet repertoire by making and performing original re-orchestrations of contemporary film music. It examines the art of storytelling and how to reproduce a cinematic drama on a smaller scale – divorced from its visual component. The basis of this project …

In face-to-face social interactions, blind and visually impaired persons (VIPs) lack access to nonverbal cues like facial expressions, body posture, and gestures, which may lead to impaired interpersonal communication. In this study, a wearable sensory substitution device (SSD) consisting of a head mounted …

FD Mediagroep (FDMG1 ) is the leading information provider in the financial economic domain in the Netherlands. FDMG operates “Het Financieele Dagblad” (FD) a daily finan- cial newspaper, similar to the Financial Times. In addition, FDMG operates the daily all-news radio station “Business News Radio” …

In this demonstration paper we describe the SMART Radio app 1 forBNRNieuwsradio. TheSMARTRadioappisanextensionto the current BNR app, which offers users a more personalized news radio experience. It does so by automatically fragmenting shows to offer our users more targeted and focused fragments of audio, …

Background: If nurses have the communication skills and the time, they can play an important role in increasing the intrinsic motivation of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) to change their lifestyle. Motivational Interviewing (Mo-Int) can be used to further support this role. However, few …

In the aviation sector, communication problems have contributed into 70% to 80% of safety occurrences. However, to date we haven’t depicted which communication aspects have affected aviation safety most frequently. Based on literature, we developed a tool which includes communication characteristics …

Background: Caregiving by family members of elderly with chronic conditions is currently intensifying in the context of an aging population and health care reform in the Netherlands. It is essential that nurses have attention for supporting roles of family caregivers of older patients and address family …

Visually impaired people (VIP) can experience difficulties in navigating urban environments. They mostly depend on the environment’s infrastructure or technical solutions like smartphone apps for navigation. However apps typically use visual and audio feedback, which can be ineffective, distracting and …