Background and objectives Before the Covid-19 pandemic, important social studies already indicated the severe negative feedback associated with high-rise developments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens were confronted with their neighbourhoods’ insufficient restorative capacity to maintain their …

The term Civic Prototyping is a shorthand for making creative prototyping accessible to anyone who tries to improve the world around them. This means contesting, hacking and innovating with technology on your own terms. This also means creatively engaging technology as a tool for supporting “democracy …

From the very beginnings of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, water management has been a topic of prime importance. This subject has taken even greater priority in recent times due to climate change and the consequent erratic weather and sea-level rise. The measures taken to ensure water safety have been …

In dit evaluatieonderzoek wordt het prototype van de ETAC Community toegelicht en geëvalueerd. Het ontwerpen en evaluatie van dit concept is uitgevoerd met behulp van community builders, eindgebruikers en experts uit het ecosysteem. Daarbij is er ook literatuuronderzoek verricht.

While many health-care issues and technological solutions are viewed locally, developing new technological solutions might benefit from lessons learned globally. The aim of this study was to develop a shared international research agenda of health-care ICT, applied to rehabilitation and daily living …

Purpose This study aims to develop an understanding of how customers of a physical retail store valuate receiving location-based mobile phone messages when they are in proximity of the store. It proposes and tests a model relating two benefits (personalization and location congruency) and two sacrifices …

Voor het eerst in vijftig jaar zijn er op de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt meer vacatures dan werklozen [1]. Omdat de druk voor ondernemers hierdoor sterk toeneemt is het relevant om te kijken of robots een oplossing kunnen bieden. Uit ons eerdere blogartikel [2] kwam naar voren dat klanten robots vooral …

For organizations that use IT systems in their primary business or as support of their business processes, optimal alignment between the business strategy and their business information technology (BIT) is critical. However, achieving business information technology alignment remains challenging due …

Hoe maak je als winkelier gebruik van de sterke punten van zowel je winkelpersoneel als een servicerobot? En zit de klant er eigenlijk wel op te wachten door mens-robotcombinaties te worden bediend? Nieuw onderzoek onder meer dan 1000 Nederlandse consumenten geeft antwoorden.