Introduction: Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these …

This study investigates the designs of learning environments in higher professional education through the identification of designable elements and grading them from specified to emergent. In addition, the problems with the designs are identified and adaptive elements are introduced, which perform a …

The airline industry is a subject that is often reported in the media these days. Especially in the last years, a lot of mergers and accessions to alliance have taken place. What is more, a strong competition of low-cost carriers is going on in which cheaper fares are offered with less service on board. …

The greater the technological dependencies of an electronic text on other layers of (software, hardware, networking) technology, the higher the probability that one or more layers will break and make the piece unreadable, and even unpreservable. In the past two decades of electronic poetry, this has …

Motivation - The use of a Home Care Robot combined with a sensor network could possibly improve or replace current home Tele-healthcare systems that monitor elderly people or other people with health problems. Using robot for this is a new and we want to find out what the advantages or disadvantages …

Peer assessment is an educational arrangement where students judge a peers performance quantitatively and/or qualitatively and which stimulates students to reflect, discuss and collaborate. However, empirical evidence for peer assessment effects on learning is scarce, mostly based on student self-reports …

This report contains market research, an external analysis and a marketing mix for the company Le Credit Sportif. This company develops electronic cash desks and payment systems exclusively designed for canteens of sports clubs. This simple system provides everybody who works in the canteens of these …

The developments in the field of media, technology and business models are going faster and ensure that the publisher can choose from a wide range of publish possibilities. As well private as in practice the consumer changes its search-, read- and buying motive. Companies within but also outside the …

It is often said that European companies must stop trying to compete on price and concentrate more on developing products and services that offer customers and users a high level of added value. Design is an indispensable tool for such development and innovation, and this is why the findings of this …

In this contribution the current status and future development of four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are reviewed. They are the American Global Positioning System (GPS), the Russian Glonass, the European Galileo and the Chinese BeiDou Compass. All four systems offer, or will offer, civil …