The Brains4Buildings project aims to develop methods to design new smart building climate management systems that, among other things, reduce energy consumption, increase comfort and respond flexibly to user behavior. We set out to develop design guidelines to help B4B stakeholders when designing innovative …

Back in 2013 Maxxton started using Cloudinary as the Content Delivery Network (CDN) for images on websites of their clients. Over time Cloudinary expanded into a large company with over three hundred employees. They introduced many new features that were irrelevant to Maxxton, while they increased costs …

The Dutch government believes that clarity and accessibility of texts are important (for example, the “Direct Duidelijk” initiatives), and many organizations are working hard to improve their communication. Being able to understand and use these texts is essential for citizens to handle their affairs …

This paper describes a mixed method research conducted by three different research groups on the same corpus of government text documents. The paper first addresses the need for this research, then the different methods and their strengths. Finally, the results are summarized, with a short example and …

Begrijpelijkheid van overheidsteksten staat al decennialang op diverse agenda’s. Zo investeerde de overheid in allerlei verbeterprojecten, tools en kritische kwaliteitscontroles door bijvoorbeeld de Nationale Ombudsman. Alom bekend is de Belastingdienst, die de begrijpelijkheid van brieven wilde verbeteren …

On behalf of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Taalunie, the University of Utrecht and the Arnhem-Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences have jointly measured the comprehensibility of government texts. The unique aspect of this study is the combination of three methods: automatic …

Te gast zijn Marije Kesselring en Dorien Graas, onderzoeker en lector bij verschillende jeugdlectoraten, met wie ik spreek over het thema de pedagogische basis. Marije deed promotieonderzoek naar de Pedagogical Civil Society, een begrip dat haar promotor Mischa de Winter eerder al had geïntroduceerd …

In opdracht van de Taalunie, met steun van het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, hebben de Universiteit Utrecht en HAN University of Applied Sciences gezamenlijk de begrijpelijkheid van overheidsteksten gemeten. Hiervoor leverden ruim 70 Nederlandse overheidsorganisaties meer …

Built on and inspired by existing knowledge, we have conceptualised a model in which two different user types (occupants and facility managers) are positioned to the building and its climate and regulatory systems. Thus, a feedback loop and interaction take place among all actors involved. The users, …

Laco Nederland bepaalt het beleid wat op elke locatie wordt nageleefd. De hoofdorganisatie van Laco wil een maatregel doorvoeren welke invloed heeft op de werkwijze van begeleiding in de fitness. Voorafgaand aan dit onderzoek was nog niet bekend wat opvattingen, wensen en behoeften zijn van de leden …