People tend to use the same door every time they enter and exit a building. When certainentrances are widely preferred over others, congestion can occur. This paper describes twointerventions to persuade visitors to use another entrance. The first intervention used sensory deprivation (darkness), and …

The Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology employs many students during research projects. This paper discusses a series of student design projects on safety helmets in the Safety@Work project. At construction sites workers are required to wear personal protective equipment during their work. …

This is the second edition of the Startup Workbook. This workbook is different from the first version. The first version, which was made with a so called touch-grant from Saxion, was primarily a digital version. In addition, the book was printed as a deluxe edition in a limited number of copies. The …

Politici en burgers zijn massaal social media gaan gebruiken. Dit onderzoeksrapport is het vierde rapport in een reeks van onderzoeken naar de impact van social media op de Nederlandse verkiezingen, uitgevoerd door een onderzoeksteam van de kenniskring Nieuwe Media & Participatie van Saxion. Deze rapportage …

Het project Veiligheid op de Werkvloer kijkt naar de industriële werkomgevingen de veiligheidsrisico’s die daar kunnen optreden. Doel van het project is ommet behulp van slimme ambient technologie de veiligheid te verhogen. Binnendit project is een roadmap ontwikkeld om zicht te krijgen op mogelijke …

The main challenge for the Dutch and European textile and clothing sector is to make a paradigm shift from labour intensive industry to knowledge based industry. This shift is essential for gaining a competitive edge and to develop innovative products and eco-friendly processes. A promising technology …

De ambiance in een winkel wordt een steeds belangrijker verkoop aspect. Bedrijven doen er alles aan om de stemming van klanten te beïnvloeden. Zo brengen supermarkten met een uitgekiende muziekkeuze hun klanten in een vrolijkere koopstemming en weten winkeliers dat de geur van versgebrande koffie of …

The Saxion University of Applied Sciences has recently started the project “Safety at Work”. The objective of the project is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artifacts from the three disciplines: 1) Ambient Intelligence 2) Industrial & Product Design and …

Many interesting smart textile concepts have been developed, however there are only a few relevant examples of concepts that are producible and valuable for our society. The so-called ‘killer application’ has not been found yet. That is why it is extremely important that multi-disciplinary parties team-up …

Traditional IMU based PDR systems suffer from rapidly growing drift effects due to the inherent bias of the inertial sensor. Many existing solutions to mitigate this problem use aiding sensors or information as heuristics or map data. We propose a new optimization framework to solve the PDR estimation problem …