The 'implementation' and use of smart home technology to lengthen independent living of non-instutionalized elderly have not always been flawless. The purpose of this study is to show that problems with smart home technology can be partially ascribed to differences in perception of the stakeholders involved. The perceptual worlds of caregivers, care receivers, and designers vary due to differences in background and experiences. To decrease the perceptual differences between the stakeholders, we propose an analysis of the expected and experienced effects of smart home technology for each group. For designers the effects will involve effective goals, caregivers are mainly interested in effects on workload and quality of care, while care receivers are influenced by usability effects. Making each stakeholder aware of the experienced and expected effects of the other stakeholders may broaden their perspectives and may lead to more successful implementations of smart home technology, and technology in general.
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Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) are often put forward as a solution to reduce the negative impact of freight transport on cities. However, few UCCs have so far successfully attracted sufficient volume to become viable. Receivers of goods can potentially be effective initiators of a UCC, due to their buying power. The purpose of this research is to learn how receiver-led consolidation initiatives develop. We use qualitative data on four receiver-led UCCs in The Netherlands to understand the success factors and challenges in various stages of development. Our research shows that receivers can help during the start-up stage of a UCC, when they have a large volume of goods, can convince internal stakeholders, and are willing to pay or can make suppliers pay. However, receiver-led UCCs still face challenges related to growth in the later stages and require continuous effort to attract volume.
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This study was conducted in the context of primary teacher education. The primary teacher education program at HU University of Applied Sciences is at the start of a curriculum redesign in which assessment for learning and feedback will be emphasized. We know assessment and feedback can increase student learning and performance. In the last couple of years students as feedback receivers are placed in the centre of the feedback process. When students actively take up feedback their engagement in feedback will increase. However, some feedback situations work well for them and some don’t. In this study we try to grasp both situations and figure out which factors of the feedback situation did work or did not. We focused on two processes during the interviews and the coding. The first process was about the feedback situation, which characteristics of the feedback context, the receiver and the sender were at hand, and second what did students do with the feedback, did they try to understand and use the feedback, react to or ask for new feedback. The aim of this study is to provide feedback situations that work for our students and use them as elements in the redesign of the curriculum.
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In dit project wordt de techno-economische en sociale haalbaarheid getest van een zonwering systeem dat tevens zonne-stroom en –warmte opwekt, passieve ruimtekoeling levert, en een deel van het natuurlijk daglicht binnenlaat, gericht op appartementenhoogbouw: een sector waarin op dit moment enorm wordt geworsteld met duurzame energie oplossingen. Het gaat om een horizontaal systeem van spiegelende lamellen voor installatie aan een buitengevel, voor glaspartijen. Het systeem gebruikt één gecentraliseerde pv receiver per serie lamellen, waardoor de kostprijs gedrukt wordt. Het systeem is vernieuwend omdat energiewinning uit glazen elementen bij bestaande bouw bijna niet bestaat. Tevens biedt het de kans de integrale energiehuishouding van appartementenhoogbouw te bedienen in één enkel systeem. Het Solar Energy Blinds systeem is ontworpen om laagdrempelig te installeren te zijn in de bestaande bouw, aan de buitengevel en het systeem laat zich uitermate goed schalen. Uitgangspunt voor deze validatie en haalbaarheidsstudie is een bestaand proof-of-concept tafelmodel prototype. Experimentele tests worden verricht naar i) de elektriciteitsopwekking, via IV bepalingen aan de pv cellen, ii) warmte van het systeem, via continue logging van thermokoppels op verschillende plaatsen op de receivers, iii) lichtdoorlatendheid van het systeem met photometers. We verrichten tests in het lab en ‘on-sun’ in Oost, Zuid, en West oriëntaties. Hieruit komt een werkings- en opbrengstanalyse voort. Gelijktijdig worden verbeteringen ontworpen richting de maakbaarheid, schaalbaarheid, vormgeving, schoonmaak en inpasbaarheid. Op basis van de verbeteringen wordt de kostprijs bepaald. Het bovenstaande dient als input voor een haalbaarheidsanalyse. Het consortium verspreidt de resultaten van dit project, en bereidt op basis van de resultaten een vervolg-subsidieaanvraag voor, zo nodig met een uitbreiding van het consortium.
