To obtain large-scale sequence alignments in a fast and flexible way is an important step in the analyses of next generation sequencing data. Applications based on the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm are often either not fast enough, limited to dedicated tasks or not sufficiently accurate due to statistical …

This paper describes the Care4Balance (C4B) system for better facilitating communication and task coordination between formal and informal caregivers, and older adults as care receivers. Field-tests with older adults (n=3) and user studies (n=9) were conducted to evaluate the system and the perceived …

Experimental setup of motivating physiotherapy clients to perform balancing exercises at home through the use of a game with custom ‘wobble board’ hardware and iPadaccelerometer data.

Open hardware and open design are part of a larger open source idea. It is the idea that authors, creators and inventors need not and should not be overly protective over who reuses their works, for what purpose they use them and in what manner, but rather that they would actually want to make their …

Athor supplied : "This paper describes an agent-based architecture for domotics. This architecture is based on requirements about expandability and hardware independence. The heart of the system is a multi-agent system. This system is distributed over several platforms to open the possibility to tie …

Een bespreking van het boek van Paul Verhaeghe; "Identiteit" met duiding van relevantie voor wetenschap en begeleidingspraktijk. Er is geen wezenlijke identiteit, zegt Verhaeghe. Hij beschouwt genen min of meer als hardware , maar “wie wij worden hangt grotendeels af van onze omgeving”. Identiteit loopt …

Technologische ontwikkelingen volgen elkaar in rap tempo op. Zo is ook de teamleiding AFM aan De Haagse Hogeschool geïnteresseerd in deze ontwikkelingen en dan met name het gebruik van tablet pc's in het onderwijs. Het doel van de opdracht is om na te gaan welke toegevoegde waarde het inzetten van een …

Fablab project / HOWTO documentation sharing has not had a major focus on Fablab network development so far. To this end, a series of "platform" workshops and calls have been taking place as of August 2010, covering topics from (online) community development in general to formalizing project descriptions …