Gedrag van grote groepen mensen speelt een belangrijke rol in zowel het ontstaan en in stand houden van de problemen op het gebied van gezondheid en energie en milieu, als ook in de oplossing er van. De overheid, bedrijven en organisaties willen burgers, consumenten en werknemers aanzetten tot het maken van …

Dit paper onderzoekt de oorsprong van Geert Wilders' media-appeal. Geen Nederlandse politicus heeft in de voorbije vijf jaar zoveel journalistieke aandacht gegenereerd als de leider van de Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV). Althans, dat is een wijdverbreid idee onder politici, academici en journalisten zelf. …

-het verloop onder fitnessklanten is groot, mede als gevolg van de toenemende concurrentie. Omdat verwacht wordt dat klantenwerving niet eenvoudiger wordt, zullen fitnesscentra zich meer moeten richten op klantbehoud; -om de retentie te verhogen is het nodig de aandacht te verschuiven van het functionele …

How to provide health clubs the possibility of offering distinctive services in an increasingly stronger and rapidly changing competitive environment? This was the issue raised by the Dutch fitness industry, which in recent years has grown markedly. Our study represents an extension of the dynamic capabilities …

This thesis describes the process of making an existing forum for Android, BlackBerry and the internet available on Nokia smartphones by adapting the internet version and dynamically changing the website lay out to fit use on smartphones using launcher applications that are spreadable via smartphone …

The Co-Design Pressure Cooker was set up to gather knowledge on co-design in product development activities of Small-to-Medium Enterprises(SMEs). This booklet gives an impression of ten projects conducted in the Province of Utrecht, the Netherlands. In these ten projects, a total of 22 companies were …

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Based on the theory of embodied cognition we developed NOOT, at tangible tool that allows marking audio-moments during creative sessions. A detailed analysis of using NOOT in practice lead to a reconceptualization of NOOT within processes of external scaffolding. It also spurred a new design project focused …

We present a fully working prototype of NOOT, an interactive tangible system which supports (sharing of) moments of reflection during brainstorms. We discuss the iterative design process, informed by embodied situated cognition theory and by user studies in context using various versions of the prototype. …

In order to design effective Persuasive Technology (PT) interventions, it is essential that designers understand the multitude of factors that lead to behavioral change, rather than guessing at a solution or imitating successful techniques without understanding why. The few available PT design frameworks …