Strategic communication includes all messages and activities across the levels of war in order to affect target audiences and to encourage certain behaviour. It can be divided into a horizontal way, the way the messages and activities are crafted and sent to touch the public, and a vertical way, the …

Gentle stroking touches are rated most pleasant when applied at a velocity of between 1–10 cm/s. Such touches are considered highly relevant in social interactions. Here, we investigate whether stroking sensations generated by a vibrotactile array can produce similar pleasantness responses, with the …

In this thesis, we present an articulated, empirical view on what human music making is, and on how this fundamentally relates to computation. The experimental evidence which we obtained seems to indicate that this view can be used as a tool, to systematically generate models, hypotheses and new technologies …

The Hague University of Applied Sciences has high ambitions in the field of internationalisation. Two out of four priorities in the institutional policy touch this theme: global citizenship and internationalisation. In order to ensure that the curriculum of the new degree programme HBO ICT meets these …

Onderzoeken hoeveel druk er met welke delen van de palmzijde van de hand gegeven wordt tijdens de maatname van een onderbeenstomp, door middel van een prototype digitale maatnamehandschoen. Dit levert een bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van de digitale maatnamehandschoen van het project High Touch. Dit …

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

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 …

In veel ouderenzorginstellingen wordt al gebruik gemaakt van multimediatoepassingen voor mensen met dementie, zoals De Verhalentafel en de BrainTrainerPlus. De drie grootste zorgorganisaties in Rotterdam (Aafje, Laurens en Humanitas) hebben een toenemende behoefte aan individuele activiteiten en zagen …

Deze publicatie is in twee fasen tot stand gekomen tijdens het In Touch onderzoek. De eerste fase had als doel de randvoorwaarden te bepalen voor het ontwerpen van drie nieuwe iPad spellen voor ouderen met dementie en betrof een beperkt literatuuronderzoek op gerelateerde onderwerpen, daar nauwelijks …

This document is created to fulfil the requirements for completing the study programme International Communication and Media at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. The topic arose in cooperation with the German public relations (PR) agency WAHLE & WOLF. The purpose of this research study is to …