The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen’s participation options. In deprived neighbourhoods, community engagement is central in building community resilience, an important resource for health and a prerequisite …

Intelligent environments can offer support to people with early-stage dementia, who often experience problems with maintaining their circadian rhythm. The focus of this work is developing a prototype of an Intelligent Environment for assisting these people with their daily rhythm while living independently …

The last decade we saw an increasing academic, policy, and professional interest in the use of co-creation to tackle societal challenges. Most research focused on qualitative analysis of case studies. This led to an understanding that co-creation is essential for social innovation. We started this paper …

Abstract Background: To address the lack of social interaction and meaningful activities for persons with dementia (PWD) in nursing homes an artistic Photo-Activity was designed. The present study aims to develop a digital version of the Photo-Activity and to investigate its implementation and impact …

Introductie      Onder scholieren heerst een groeiende ontevredenheid over de schoolse seksuele voorlichting die zij ontvangen (De Graaf et al., 2017). Effectieve seksuele voorlichting kent gunstige gevolgen, zoals een vermindering in het nemen van seksuele risico’s (UNESCO, 2018). Echter, heeft effectieve …

With the development of content-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, such as generating images from a textual description, new possibilities for using such system in design processes arise. In this position paper, we argue that we need to explicitly incorporate children's values when we develop …

Valt de binding met de organisatie weg vanwege het thuiswerken? Uit ons onderzoek onder medewerkers van MKB-ondernemingen blijkt dat niet. Respondenten geven namelijk hoge scores voor hun mate van verbondenheid met de organisatie (gemiddeld hoger dan 4 op een schaal van 1–5). Daarnaast laat het onderzoek …