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Dutch newsradio BNR interviews students working on an interactive wall for elderly with dementia

5 May 2014bkrose1

Laurean Serne is interviewed by BNR Newsradio

A group of students who, during the minor ‘healthcare technology’, developed an ‘interactive wall’ for elderly with dementia has started a bachelors project where they set up their own company. Because there was so much demand for the interactive wall, particularly from nursing homes, the students investigate whether they can start a successful business with this product. Today BNR news radio was visiting the HvA to interview the students. More information about the company: www.illi-engineering.nl. The interview will be broadcast on BNR eye openers.

Later this week the wall will be shipped to nursing home Naarderheem where it will be tested. Then the wall will be used as a Golden Demo for national ICT program COMMIT/.

Theo Jansen shows his new Strandbeest

19 April 2014bkrose1

Last week, the Digital Life group visited the exhibition of Theo Jansen. http://electriciteitsfabriek.nl/generatorstrandbeest/

My group involved in the exhibition of Theo Jansen

Virtually all beach animals are now exhibited in the Electriciteitsfabriek in The Hague. Ancient skeletons and other historical materials are also displayed. Theo gave an inspiring lecture about the origin of the animals and evolution. The picture shows some members of the digital life group involved in moving from one of the beasts.

Meeting between Fashion students and ICT students

23 February 2014bkrose1

Anouk Wipprecht on technology and fashion

February 14 was the joint kick off the minors Fashion Theories and Intelligent Environments at HvA. Intelligent Environments offers a program in the field of design, engineering and research. Fashion Theories offers a program in the field of Fashion & the Body, Theories of Fashion Culture and Identity and Marketing Theories. During the program, students investigated whether a connection exists between fashion and movement and whether the relationship between fashion and technology can be found.

SENSEI CITY RUNNER APP

7 February 2014bkrose1

Monday Feb 3, 2000 students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Science participated in the ‘Students in motion‘ week. Students carry out assignments for the city of Amsterdam. One of the assignments is exercising with the SIM SENSEI City Runner app.

The SIM SENSEI City Runner app encourages running in the city and also contributes to the scientific research of the HvA. People who turn on the City Runner app, generate motion data which is used to determine how people are running and how they feel about it.

The City Runner app is developed especially for SIM by the COMMIT project SENSEI, Amsterdam Creative Industries Centre of Expertise project Sense in the City and the CitySDK project which are three projects of the research group Digital Life.

Dutch Platform Man Machine Interaction visits HvA

4 October 2013bkrose1

A delegation of the Dutch MMI plaform visited the HvA Amsterdam University of Applied Science. We had an workshop on MMI aspects of aircrafts and airports and students of Medialab and Digital Life Centre demonstrated their projects.

Amsterdam Maker Festival

7 September 2013bkrose1

The try out of the Maker Festival Amsterdam took place Fri/Sat 6 and 7 sept. Also the opening of iFabrica, where entrepreneurs, students, hobbyists can use the infrastructure to create and make things.

Final presentation program ‘Intelligent Environments’

4 July 2013bkrose1

Today the 34 students from the minor program ‘Intelligent Environments’ displayed their work at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. The half-year educational program focuses on technology for ambient intelligence, interaction design and research methods. Furthermore students carry out an applied research project for a company. This year we had 11 companies, among which VANturelabs (face recognition software for interactive displays), Info.nl (digital experiences connected to objects), AMSTA (an interactive video wall for people with dementia in a nursing home), and many more. See for a full list digitallifecentre.nl

Mock up of Dam square for a user study of a design by UNStudio

Wouter Meys as coordinator presenting the events

Care-o-Bot arrived in Heerlen

11 June 2013bkrose1

Just before the consortium meeting of the EU FP7-ICT project ‘ACCOMPANY’ the Care-o-Bot robot was delivered to Hogeschool Zuyd. There a new set of user studied will be carried out and the cameras and sensors will be tested in an Ambient Assisted Living setting.

Project coordinator Farshid Amirabdollahian and the Care-o-Bot in HZ premises

Kick off Care 4 Balance project

15 March 2013bkrose1

Monday March 11 we met for the kick-off of the Care 4 Balance project. In this AAL project, coordinated by iMinds Belgium we cooperate within a European consortium on a system that supports informal carers to give assistance to elderly, and to cooperate with formal carers in this. We will design an innovative and reciprocal service design based on dashboard systems representing the status & context of the actors involved.

kick-off Care 4 Balance at HvA in Amsterdam

Behaviour analysis with many sensors

11 July 2012bkrose1

The Big Game meeting — More than 30 participants participated in this behaviour analysis experiment

Hayley Hung and Gwenn Englebienne from my group at UvA together with researchers from the group of Maarten van Steen at the VU organised a collaborative experiment to record people interacting with each other when taking part in a game event, using audio, video, position, and motion sensors.