This is the slide illuminating the day program with which the opening speech for the INDEX (International Design Experience) week was held.

This is the slide illuminating the conference program with which the opening speech for the INDEX conference was held.

In Nederland adviseert de overheid de moeders om zes maanden of langer borstvoeding te geven. Echter, slechts 51% van de Nederlandse moeders geeft nog borstvoeding met zes maanden en veel vrouwen houden dit niet zolang vol als ze van plan waren geweest. In dit onderzoek wordt onderzocht hoe een bestaande …

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between changes in relative influence between marketing and R&D and new product performance (NPP). The aim is to theorize and test whether relative influence changes are beneficial for NPP. Design/methodology/approach An international survey was …

What does it mean to be precarious, and who self-identifies as part of the precariat? Is it a political position? And if so, how can precariats start to organize themselves? In this first episode of the Zero Infinite podcast we discuss precarity, anti-austerity and work through interviews with Alex Foti, …

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement is the latest ‘big thing’ in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) which threatens to transform Higher Education. Both opportunities and threats are extensively discussed in literature, comprising issues on opening up education for the whole world, pedagogy and …

Achtergrond Het verkregen signaal, vanuit het behandelteam van leefgroep de Gildekamp, is dat de terugkeer naar huis vanaf de leefgroep vaak moeizaam verloopt. Dit signaal is erkend door de groepsleiding. De opdrachtgever van dit onderzoek, Frans Peters, heeft Amy van der Mark en Karijn Jurriens de opdracht …

Due to advances in technology, the world around us contains an increasing number of robots, virtual agents, and other intelligent systems. These systems all have a certain degree of autonomy. For the people who interact with an intelligent system it is important to obtain a good understanding of its …

As robots are increasingly used in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions, it becomes highly relevant to study how SAR robots can be developed and deployed in a responsible way. In contrast to some other robot application domains, e.g. military and healthcare, the ethics of robot-assisted SAR are relatively …