OBJECTIVE: To investigate the level of agreement of the behavioural mapping method with an accelerometer to measure physical activity of hospitalized patients. DESIGN: A prospective single-centre observational study. SETTING: A university medical centre in the Netherlands. SUBJECTS: Patients admitted …

BACKGROUND: Despite the evidence of the adverse consequences of immobility during hospitalization, patients spend most of the time in bed. Although physical activity is a modifiable factor that can prevent in-hospital functional decline, bed rest is deeply rooted in the hospital culture. To attack this, …

Achtergrond Voor project U-drone Ontwikkeld Delft Dynamics een drone die ondergrondse gangen kan inspecteren. Tijdens een inspectie mag het signaal van de drone niet verstoord worden door (kwaadwillende) invloed van buitenaf. Om deze reden moet de communicatie met de drone via een kabel verlopen. Afbakening In …

Om de marktdoelen van Secura na te streven is het initiatief naar voren geroepen om een tool te bouwen dat in staat is om automatisch penetratie tests uit te voeren op cloud omgevingen. De tool zal tijdrovende taken wegnemen van werknemers en zal klanten snelle, reguliere en volledige tests aan kunnen …

Voor het meten van elektrochemische processen van micro- tot nanoschaal wordt een techniek ontwikkeld die elektrochemische impedantiemetingen met een AFM naald mogelijk maken. Hierbij bevindt zich actief materiaal op een AFM naald en worden er metingen verricht in elektrolyt. Tijdens dit onderzoek …

This pilot study explores the possibility of cognitive training software Neurotracker (NT), to have potential beneficial effects for Traumatic Brain Injury patients with Sensory Processing Disorder. Five subjects with TBI and SPD trained for 5 weeks/21 sessions with Neurotracker. Pre-post training cognitive …

Professional and academic education increasingly use realistic, rich, safe and interactive tools such as serious gaming. In our case we have used a serious game to teach students how socio-economic and technological opportunities and challenges could shape sustainable businesses in a circular economy. …

This document entails the activities performed by Daniël Leffelaar during his graduation period at Humanetics Europe GmbH in Delft. The goal of the project was to create a test set-up with which the behavior of measurement instruments under dynamic circumstances could be evaluated. This was done by first …

Motivating students to actively engage in their studying efforts is an ongoing challenge, because motivation is a key factor in study success. In the work presented here, we investigate whether the use of a mobile app with a teacher-like avatar (StudyGotchi), based on the successful digital pet Tamagotchi, …

Maker spaces are generally regarded as a valuable innovation in comparison to traditional education, although it is largely unclear what is exactly learned. This deficiency hampers the deployment of maker spaces, particularly their embedding and integration in the existing practice in formal education. …