Purpose: To gain a rich understanding of the experiences and opinions of patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers regarding the design of OGR with structure, process, environment, and outcome components. Methods: Qualitative research based on the constructive grounded theory approach is …

Een onderzoek naar het toevoegen van open stedelijk water ten behoeve van klimaatadaptatie. Hierbij is het resultaat een integraal adviesrapport voor het toevoegen van open stedelijk water.

In this study we use aggregated weighted scores of environmental effects to study environmental influences on well-being and happiness. To this end, we split a sample of Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) participants into a training (N =4857) and test (N =2077) sample. In the training sample, we use elastic …

The Importance of a Robot Math Tutor’s Social Interaction Skills: Scaffolding and Personalization

Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session user study (n = 113 children) that included a nine-month break between the third and fourth session. During the study, …

Let's Get Personal - Social Personalization for Sustainable Long-Term Educational Robots

Vrijdag 12 mei wordt voor het eerst het Fontys XR Event gehouden. Een kans voor docenten en studenten om kennis te maken en te delen over de toepassingen in het onderwijs van deze virtuele toolbox. XR staat voor Extended Reality. En die bestaat uit de technologieën Virtual reality (VR) en Augmented …

Several recent works in human-robot-interaction (HRI) have begun to highlight the importance of the replication crisis and open science practices for our field. Yet, suggestions and recommendations tailored to child-robot-interaction (CRI) research, which poses it's own additional set of challenges, …

To benefit from the social capabilities of a robot math tutor, instead of being distracted by them, a novel approach is needed where the math task and the robot's social behaviors are better intertwined. We present concrete design specifications of how children can practice math via a personal conversation …

Background: Due to the increasing number of older people with multi-morbidity, the demand for outpatient geriatric rehabilitation (OGR) will also increase. Objective: To assess the effects of OGR on the primary outcome functional performance (FP) and secondary outcomes: length of in-patient stay, re-admission …