This study aimed to evaluate outcomes and support use in 12- to 25-year-old visitors of the @ease mental health walk-in centres, a Dutch initiative offering free counselling by trained and supervised peers.

In the Netherlands, client and family participation in care for people with intellectual disabilities has been in vogue for a long time, and increasingly receives attention (KPMG and Vilans 2017). However, the perspective and experiential knowledge of service users and relatives is often still insuBiciently …

Mensen met geldzorgen en/of schulden komen in veel gevallen pas laat bij schuldhulpverleners in beeld. De afgelopen jaren spraken we veel mensen met geldproblemen in het kader van het onderzoek ‘Eerder uit de schulden: wat werkt?’. Zo spraken we met jongeren met schulden, inwoners die vanwege betalingsachterstanden …

Algorithmic affordances are defined as user interaction mechanisms that allow users tangible control over AI algorithms, such as recommender systems. Designing such algorithmic affordances, including assessing their impact, is not straightforward and practitioners state that they lack resources to design …

This exploratory study investigates the rationale behind categorizing algorithmic controls, or algorithmic affordances, in the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of recommender systems. Seven professionals from industry and academia took part in an open card sorting activity to analyze 45 cards with examples …

The user’s experience with a recommender system is significantly shaped by the dynamics of user-algorithm interactions. These interactions are often evaluated using interaction qualities, such as controllability, trust, and autonomy, to gauge their impact. As part of our effort to systematically categorize …

In flexible education, recommender systems that support course selection, are considered a viable means to help students in making informed course selections, especially where curricula offer greater flexibility. However, these recommender systems present both potential benefits and looming risks, such …

Emergency care (from ambulance to emergency room) is focused on somatic care: fixing the body. When a patient with mental dysregulation who experiences ‘disproportionate feelings like fear, anger, sadness or confusion, possibly with associated behaviours’ (Van de Glind et al. 2023) does not get appropriate …

Gedurende de periode van 5 februari tot en met 23 juni is het studenten BO-project “Mbo-student in Actie voor Plantaardig voedsel” (MAP) uitgevoerd, voor regio Noord-Brabant door BO1. Het overkoepelende MAP project is een tweejarig project wat het voedselkeuzegedrag van mbo-studenten in kaart brengt …

De 6-weekse challenge 'Plant-Up Masters' is ontwikkeld om studenten te enthousiasmeren bij het ontwikkelen van nieuwe plantaardige gerechten of snacks voor de schoolkantine. De studenten richten zich hierbij op een specifiek moment van de dag, passend bij een gekozen persona waar de groep studenten zich …