This paper introduces a design case that was built around the challenge to design a prototype for women that would positively influence their perception of personal safety in public spaces. The proposed design combines an individual focus with a public impact, influencing emotions through embodiment …

Since the dawn of advertising in the Netherlands there have been much changes. Advertising has become an essential tool for any type of organization (Rakker, 2009). Nowadays, grasping the attention of an audience is becoming more and more difficult (Libbenga, 2013). Mark Jetten (2014) said “We barely …

'"Is technologie leuk? Natuurlijk is technologie leuk." Maar willen we echt "met zijn allen in 2020 met een emotion aware enkelband lopen?" Frans van der Reep (lector Inholland) wil ook de 'dark side' van opportunisme en "moeiteloos accepteren" daarbij onder ogen zien.

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Creating agents that are capable of emulating similar socio-cultural dynamics to those found in human interaction remains as one of the hardest challenges of artificial intelligence. This problem becomes particularly important when considering embodied …

Only 18% of the Dutch population watches TV commercials. This means more than 80% does not watch them and zaps to another channel or walks away from the television. In general TV commercials are evaluated to be an irritating interruption during a program or movie that is broadcasted. Research shows that …

‘There are other options’ is the title of a literary research study into the merits of interventions by a multidisciplinary team based on psychomotor therapy, regarding the treatment of self-mutilating patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The book ‘Omgaan met zelfbeschadiging en suïcidaal …

‘Wat voel ik?’ is a study about the contribution of psychomotor therapy (PMT) in recognizing emotions by youth with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) in a age of 12 until 20 years. The study should result in a number of clues about how the PMT, as a form of treatment, can be used to learn youth with …

In this paper we investigate the expression of emotions through mediated touch. Participants used the Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch (TaSST), a wearable sleeve that consists of a pressure sensitive input layer, and a vibration motor output layer, to record a number of expressions of discrete emotions. …

The research has been planned to give support to the interpreter who desires to start a personal research about Sequenza XI, focusing on rhetorical features as means for its interpretation. The thesis is aimed to provide a method for both the performer who approaches the work and he who already knows …

In this literary research I asked myself the following question: Are the emotional experiences through playing video games of any benefit in art education? A question that immediately raises other questions: What kind of emotional experiences players get anyway? Why through video games, what is their …