Behavior change is a topic that is of great interest to many people. People can use apps to exercise more, eat healthier, or learn a new skill, but and digital interventions and games are also used by policy makers and companies to create a safe environment for the general public or to increase sales. …

Introduction The change from primary to secondary school has a negative impact on physical activity levels of adolescents. Cycling is an easy way of integrating physical activity into adolescents’ daily life. In the Netherland, cycling is rather common and around 80% of adolescents are cycling to school …

In social settings, people often need to reason about unobservable mental content of other people, such as their beliefs, goals, or intentions. This ability helps them to understand, to predict, and even to influence the behavior of others. People can take this ability further by applying it recursively. …

One of the most remarkable phenomena in nature is mimicry, in which one species (the mimic) evolves to imitate the phenotype of another species (the model). Several reasons for the origin of mimicry have been proposed, but no definitive conclusion has been found yet. In this paper, we test several of …

More and more people suffer from age-related eye conditions, e.g. Macular Degeneration. One of the problems experienced by these people is navigation. A strategy shown by many juvenile visually impaired persons (VIPs) is using auditory information for navigation. Therefore, it is important to train age-related …

Blog op de website van de Hanzehogeschool waar ingegaan wordt op het project Adaptive Computational Thinking (ACT). Dit project is één van de vijf innovatieve onderwijsexperimenten die dit jaar gehonoreerd zijn binnen de SURF Innovation Challenge.

Part of the Let's make research great again series of the Professorship of User-Centered Design

Gamification heeft de afgelopen jaren een flinke opmars gemaakt in het onderwijs en in het bedrijfsleven. Een bekend voorbeeld waar gamification wordt toegepast is de app Duolingo. Met deze app worden gebruikers gemotiveerd om taaloefeningen te maken door gedrag te belonen met punten. Maar er is ook …