Over the past decade, journalists have created in-depth interactive narratives to provide an alternative to the relentless 24-hour news cycle. Combining different media forms, such as text, audio, video, and data visualisation with the interactive possibilities of digital media, these narratives involve users in the narrative in new ways. In journalism studies, the convergence of different media forms in this manner has gained significant attention. However, interactivity as part of this form has been left underappreciated. In this study, we scrutinise how navigational structure, expressed as navigational cues, shapes user agency in their individual explorations of the narrative. By approaching interactive narratives as story spaces with unique interactive architectures, in this article, we reconstruct the architecture of five Dutch interactive narratives using the walkthrough method. We find that the extensiveness of the interactive architectures can be described on a continuum between closed and open navigational structures that predetermine and thus shape users’ trajectories in diverse ways.
SUMMARY Architecture compliance checking (ACC) is an approach to verify conformance of implemented program code to high-level models of architec tural design. Static ACC focuses on the modular software architecture and on the existence of rule violating dependencies between modules. Accurate tool support is essential for effective and efficient ACC. This paper presents a study on the accuracy of ACC tools regarding dependency analysis and violation reporting. Ten tools were tested and compare d by means of a custom-made benchmark. The Java code of the benchmark testware contains 34 different types of dependencies, which are based on an inventory of dependency types in object oriented program code. In a second test, the code of open source system FreeMind was used to compare the 10 tools on the number of reported rule violating dependencies and the exactness of the dependency and violation messages. On the average, 77% of the dependencies in our custom-made test software were reported, while 72% of the dependencies within a module of FreeMind were reported. The results show that all tools in the test could improve the accuracy of the reported dependencies and violations, though large differences between the 10 tools were observed. We have identified10 hard-to-detect types of dependencies and four challenges in dependency detection. The relevance of our findings is substantiated by means of a frequency analysis of the hard-to-detect types of dependencies in five open source systems. DOI: 10.1002/spe.2421
Abstract Healthcare organizations operate within a network of governments, insurers, inspection services and other healthcare organizations to provide clients with the best possible care. The parties involved must collaborate and are accountable to each other for the care provided. This has led to a diversity of administrative processes that are supported by a multi-system landscape, resulting in administrative burdens among healthcare professionals. Management methods, such as Enterprise Architecture (EA), should help to develop and manage such landscapes, but they are systematic, while the network of healthcare parties is dynamic. The aim of this research is therefore to develop an EA framework that fits the dynamics of network organizations (such as long-term healthcare). This research proposal outlines the practical and scientific relevance of this research and the proposed method. The current status and next steps are also described.
The reclaiming of street spaces for pedestrians during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, appears to have multiple benefits: It allows people to escape the potentially infected indoor air, limits accessibility for cars and reduces emissions. Before ordering their coffee or food, people may want to check one of the many wind and weather apps, such as windy.com: These apps display the air quality at any given time, including, for example, the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a gas responsible for an increasing number of health issues, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Ships and heavy industry in the nearby Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, exacerbate air pollution in the region. Not surprisingly, in 2020 Rotterdam was ranked as one of the unhealthiest cities in the Netherlands, according to research on the health of cities conducted by Arcadis. Reducing air pollution is a key target for the Port Authority and the City of Rotterdam. Missing, however, is widespread awareness among citizens about how air pollution links to socio-spatial development, and thus to the future of the port city cluster of Rotterdam. To encourage awareness and counter the problem of "out of sight - out of mind," filmmaker Entrop&DeZwartFIlms together with ONSTV/NostalgieNet, and Rotterdam Veldakademie, are collaborating with historians of the built environment and computer science and public health from TU Delft and Erasmus University working on a spatial data platform to visualize air pollution dynamics and socio-economic datasets in the Rotterdam region. Following discussion of findings with key stakeholders, we will make a pilot TV-documentary. The documentary, discussed first with Rotterdam citizens, will set the stage for more documentaries on European and international cities, focusing on the health effects—positive and negative—of living and working near ports in the past, present, and future.
Noord-Holland kent een belangrijke en innovatieve maakindustrie. Het gaat hierbij om relatief kleine nichespelers, die een grote internationale markt bedienen. In 2016 werd het TechnoSpitsen netwerk Noord-Holland opgericht, met als doelstelling “Het slim verbinden van (nieuwe) technologieën, kansen en uitdagingen, mensen en kennis, bedrijven en onderwijs, voor een innovatieve en toekomstbestendige maakindustrie”. Door samenwerken in “open innovatie” bundelen bedrijven en Hogeschool de krachten: • Samenwerken met collega-bedrijven, leren van elkaar • Samenwerken met studenten en daardoor een betere instroom van nieuw talent • Samenwerken met docent-onderzoekers, waardoor vernieuwende ideeën kunnen doorstromen naar de praktijk en naar het onderwijs. KIJKEN MET ANDERE OGEN doet praktijkonderzoek naar de mogelijkheden en toegevoegde waarde van moderne beeldbewerkingstechnieken en beeldbewerkingssoftware (computer vision). Door de inzet van geavanceerde vision technieken komen we tot verbeteringen in het ontwerp van hun machine-ontwerp en productieproces. Meer specifiek: • Verbeteringen in productiviteit door kortere cyclustijd of doorlooptijd • Verbeteringen in de productkwaliteit en nauwkeurigheid van werken (zero defects) • Verbeteringen in het storingsgedrag (kortere down-time, minder storingen) • Verbeteringen in de omstelflexibiliteit (sneller overgaan op ander product) Met camera’s die meer kleuren kunnen zien dan het menselijk oog – infrarood, ultraviolet, X-ray kunnen we letterlijk ‘Kijken met Andere Ogen’! Beeldvormende technieken, oorspronkelijk ontwikkeld voor ruimtevaart, astronomie en medische toepassingen, worden als nieuwe beeldvormende chips in compacte behuizingen ondergebracht en komen beschikbaar voor nieuwe robottoepassingen in industrie en agri-food. Met nieuwe GPU gebaseerde HW-architecturen, en moderne deep learning algoritmes, kunnen we relatief snel nieuwe toepassingen met geavanceerde objectherkenning bouwen. Leren uit voorbeelden in plaats van programmeren. Door computer-gegenereerde beelden te combineren met ‘live’ beelden wordt het mogelijk om de resultaten van metingen ‘live’ inzichtelijk te maken (Augmented Reality). ‘Andere ogen’ die meekijken en tips geven tijdens inspectie of training.
In summer 2020, part of a quay wall in Amsterdam collapsed, and in 2010, construction for a parking lot in Amsterdam was hindered by old sewage lines. New sustainable electric systems are being built on top of the foundations of old windmills, in places where industry thrived in the 19th century. All these examples have one point in common: They involve largely unknown and invisible historic underground structures in a densely built historic city. We argue that truly circular building practices in old cities require smart interfaces that allow the circular use of data from the past when planning the future. The continuous use and reuse of the same plots of land stands in stark contrast with the discontinuity and dispersed nature of project-oriented information. Construction and data technology improves, but information about the past is incomplete. We have to break through the lack of historic continuity of data to make building practices truly circular. Future-oriented construction in Amsterdam requires historic knowledge and continuous documentation of interventions and findings over time. A web portal will bring together a range of diverse public and private, professional and citizen stakeholders, each with their own interests and needs. Two creative industry stakeholders, Yume interactive (Yume) and publisher NAI010, come together to work with a major engineering office (Witteveen+Bos), the AMS Institute, the office of Engineering of the Municipality of Amsterdam, UNESCO NL and two faculties of Delft University of Technology (Architecture and Computer Science) to inventorize historic datasets on the Amsterdam underground. The team will connect all the relevant stakeholders to develop a pilot methodology and a web portal connecting historic data sets for use in contemporary and future design. A book publication will document the process and outcomes, highlighting the need for circular practices that tie past, present and future.
