Background: Shared decision-making is one key element of interprofessional collaboration. Communication is often considered to be the main reason for inefficient or ineffective collaboration. Little is known about group dynamics in the process of shared decision-making in a team with professionals, including the patient or their parent. This study aimed to evaluate just that. Methods: Simulation-based training was provided for groups of medical and allied health profession students from universities across the globe. In an overt ethnographic research design, passive observations were made to ensure careful observations and accurate reporting. The training offered the context to directly experience the behaviors and interactions of a group of people. Results: Overall, 39 different goals were defined in different orders of prioritizing and with different time frames or intervention ideas. Shared decision-making was lacking, and groups chose to convince the parents when a conflict arose. Group dynamics made parents verbally agree with professionals, although their non-verbal communication was not in congruence with that. Conclusions: The outcome and goalsetting of an interprofessional meeting are highly influenced by group dynamics. The vision, structure, process, and results of the meeting are affected by multiple inter- or intrapersonal factors.
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Music moves us, literally. We tend to move the body in synchrony with the beat. Individuals without any professional music training are capable of singing or humming along with an unfamiliar melody or indicating the melodic contour by means of hand gestures. Musicians who play by ear are able to do the same on an instrument.In this study an attempt was made to quantify the extent to which professional keyboard performers were able to play by ear, and whether improvising musicians were superior to non-improvising. During the experiment, subjects were asked to listen to short, unfamiliar music excerpts recorded on a MIDI controller. Subjects were asked either to play along, replicate the excerpt, transpose it to a different key, or to harmonize it. Subjects were recruited from two groups of classically-trained musicians: improvising and non-improvising pianists and church organists. The bass and treble parts extracted from each MIDI sequence were compared with the bass and treble from the aural model, yielding an alignment score for each task. The comparison was performed using content-based music retrieval software developed in the WITCHCRAFT project for the study of folksong melodies. Results showed that the top voice was replicated better than the bass. There were large differences between the musicians. As a group, improvising musicians scored better than non-improvising musicians, however this difference was not significant. Mixture analysis showed that top-scorers came from both groups. Subjects with perfect pitch did not perform better.
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People with voice problems can seek advice and therapy from a speech-language pathologist. Besides having problems with the speaking voice, a number of them are also amateur choristers. In addition to her standard examination, the speech-language pathologist has to specifically describe the use of the singing voice during choral singing and to assess the amount of mutual influence of speaking and singing voice. In therapy, a healthy phonation is learned. In today's practice, the therapist tends to confine herself to training the sepaking voice. It is known that pitch variation influences phonation. As pitch is a complicating factor in singing, the therapist could make the client aware of this influence by using exercises that alternate speaking and singing voice. Reference to and cooperation with singing teachers is essential. A network of speech-language pathologists 'with an ear for singers' and singing teachers should be built up.
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Het RAAK-MKB project "(G)een Moer Aan" heeft zich gericht op het ontwerpen van een veilige en effectieve ondersteuning van een cobot in een productieomgeving. De focus is hierbij gelegd op productiehandelingen die in veel sectoren voorkomen en die relatief veel arbeidstijd kosten, zoals het indraaien van moeren en bouten in een object. Binnen het project is veel kennis opgedaan dit heeft geresulteerd in gripperontwerpen die in staat zijn een bout in een flens te draaien. Daarnaast is kennis gegeneerd van vision technieken om gaten e.d. te detecteren, en het meenemen van (beleefde) veiligheid in het ontwerp van een cobot systeem. Deze nieuw opgedane kennis is erg bruikbaar voor zowel de beroepspraktijk als voor de studenten in het onderwijs. Dat maakt het relevant voor (her)gebruik middels het nieuwe open-acces e-learning platform van Fontys: Open Learning Labs. Door trainingsmateriaal te ontwikkelen dat betrekking heeft op onder andere het aspect veilig ontwerpen, worden toekomstige engineers (de studenten) en zittend personeel bij bedrijven bekend met nieuwe technieken die toepasbaar zijn in diverse sectoren waar met robots gewerkt wordt. Het doel van deze Top-up aanvraag is tweeledig: 1) Het vergroten van de zichtbaarheid van de resultaten uit het initiële RAAK-project, zowel richting onderwijs, onderzoek en beroepspraktijk. 2) Het realiseren van trainingsmateriaal t.b.v. het rekening houden met en veilig ontwerpen van cobotsystemen. Door o.a. kennis aan te dragen omtrent het doen van een correcte risico analyse van het proces. Dit zal bij toekenning stapsgewijs uitgevoerd worden: 1. Definiëren inhoud lesmodules en bijbehorende didactische werkvormen 2. Realisatie PR- & instructievideo's en onderwijsopdrachten 3. Realisatie E-learning lesmodule Dit alles gekoppeld aan het open-acces e-learning platform Open Learning Labs van Fontys.
The focus of this project is on improving the resilience of hospitality Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by enabling them to take advantage of digitalization tools and data analytics in particular. Hospitality SMEs play an important role in their local community but are vulnerable to shifts in demand. Due to a lack of resources (time, finance, and sometimes knowledge), they do not have sufficient access to data analytics tools that are typically available to larger organizations. The purpose of this project is therefore to develop a prototype infrastructure or ecosystem showcasing how Dutch hospitality SMEs can develop their data analytic capability in such a way that they increase their resilience to shifts in demand. The one year exploration period will be used to assess the feasibility of such an infrastructure and will address technological aspects (e.g. kind of technological platform), process aspects (e.g. prerequisites for collaboration such as confidentiality and safety of data), knowledge aspects (e.g. what knowledge of data analytics do SMEs need and through what medium), and organizational aspects (what kind of cooperation form is necessary and how should it be financed).Societal issueIn the Netherlands, hospitality SMEs such as hotels play an important role in local communities, providing employment opportunities, supporting financially or otherwise local social activities and sports teams (Panteia, 2023). Nevertheless, due to their high fixed cost / low variable business model, hospitality SMEs are vulnerable to shifts in consumer demand (Kokkinou, Mitas, et al., 2023; Koninklijke Horeca Nederland, 2023). This risk could be partially mitigated by using data analytics, to gain visibility over demand, and make data-driven decisions regarding allocation of marketing resources, pricing, procurement, etc…. However, this requires investments in technology, processes, and training that are oftentimes (financially) inaccessible to these small SMEs.Benefit for societyThe proposed study touches upon several key enabling technologies First, key enabling technology participation and co-creation lies at the center of this proposal. The premise is that regional hospitality SMEs can achieve more by combining their knowledge and resources. The proposed project therefore aims to give diverse stakeholders the means and opportunity to collaborate, learn from each other, and work together on a prototype collaboration. The proposed study thereby also contributes to developing knowledge with and for entrepreneurs and to digitalization of the tourism and hospitality sector.Collaborative partnersHZ University of Applied Sciences, Hotel Hulst, Hotel/Restaurant de Belgische Loodsensociëteit, Hotel Zilt, DM Hotels, Hotel Charley's, Juyo Analytics, Impuls Zeeland.
Students in Higher Music Education (HME) are not facilitated to develop both their artistic and academic musical competences. Conservatoires (professional education, or ‘HBO’) traditionally foster the development of musical craftsmanship, while university musicology departments (academic education, or ‘WO’) promote broader perspectives on music’s place in society. All the while, music professionals are increasingly required to combine musical and scholarly knowledge. Indeed, musicianship is more than performance, and musicology more than reflection—a robust musical practice requires people who are versed in both domains. It’s time our education mirrors this blended profession. This proposal entails collaborative projects between a conservatory and a university in two cities where musical performance and musicology equally thrive: Amsterdam (Conservatory and University of Amsterdam) and Utrecht (HKU Utrechts Conservatorium and Utrecht University). Each project will pilot a joint program of study, combining existing modules with newly developed ones. The feasibility of joint degrees will be explored: a combined bachelor’s degree in Amsterdam; and a combined master’s degree in Utrecht. The full innovation process will be translated to a transferable infrastructural model. For 125 students it will fuse praxis-based musical knowledge and skills, practice-led research and academic training. Beyond this, the partners will also use the Comenius funds as a springboard for collaboration between the two cities to enrich their respective BA and MA programs. In the end, the programme will diversify the educational possibilities for students of music in the Netherlands, and thereby increase their professional opportunities in today’s job market.
Lectoraat, onderdeel van NHL Stenden Hogeschool
