The ToP program is a national evidence-based intervention for very preterm children (<32 weeks gestation) and their parents, aimed at improving parent-child interaction and the development of the preterm child.

Good information provision about the development and health of the premature child is associated with better developmental outcomes. That is why knowledge transfer is one of the strategies of the ToP programme. This knowledge transfer takes place during 12 home visits.

Preliminary research showed that parents and paediatric physiotherapists (SMEs) need additional information about, for example, sleep, development, behaviour and nutrition. The ToP paediatric physiotherapists also indicated that the group of vulnerable parents with limited health skills benefited less from the information transfer that takes place during the intervention. They endorse the importance of providing clear and accurate information to parents.

The moderately preterm born children (32-34 weeks of pregnancy) are currently not eligible for the ToP programme, while the problems experienced by children and parents are very similar to the very preterm born children. An online information module (E-ToP) for increasing parents’ knowledge and understanding of the consequences of preterm birth and counselling their child is seen as promising by SME professionals. Paediatric physiotherapists see opportunities to reach a wider target group with this module.

The research question in this project is: ‘How can paediatric physiotherapists, in addition to the ToP programme, transfer more knowledge and insight to parents in an accessible and understandable way about the development of their very and moderately preterm child and about parenting after preterm birth?’

In the first phase of this project, the online application will be developed in co-creation with the paediatric physiotherapists, parents and other stakeholders. In creative workshops and focus groups, including parents with limited health skills, the functionalities, content and shortcomings of the online application are examined. In the second phase, the developed program is examined in a feasibility study (n=80) for applicability, usability and satisfaction. Impact on the professional field and education will take place during and after the project.

Project duration

1 Sep 2021 -1 Sep 2023

Project manager

Raoul Engelbert, Faculteit Gezondheid (HvA)

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

Sergio Bondietti

dr Marije Kanis

Vincent Vijn

Daniel Bossen

Monique Flierman

Martine Jeukens

Anton van Kaam

Funding

SIA RAAK MKB

Partners

• Revalidatiegeneeskunde Amsterdam UMC
• Kindergeneeskunde Emma Kinderziekenhuis Amsterdam UMC
• TOP Kinderfysiotherapeuten
• Care4Neo Oudervereniging
• Pharos
• Zilveren Kruis Achmea
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kinderfysiotherapie

The theme of developing, improving and deploying creative and participatory methods to engage people in research for well-being through digital means (‘reaching out’) as it is at the heart of research and design at Digital Life and partners has been revived by COVID. Due to COVID’s lack of opportunities for researchers, professionals and students to involve people physically and in close proximity, to interact with them, to visualize iteratively and to collect data together with them for desirable and responsible digital and creative innovation, the theme has become more relevant than ever.

All the research and design of Digital Life depends on (transparent) data collection, physical interaction and creative imagination of digital possibilities with, by and for people, mainly digitally, at a distance for the past eighteen months alone. The COVID pandemic is a communal experience that has permanently changed digital practices, users and professionals.

Even after COVID, the need will continue to arise to involve and connect people in our research and design, and to bridge distances for creative innovation and well-being, for example because they will not always be able to participate and interact physically for all kinds of reasons.

Knowledge sharing about the new situation and participatory methods of research and design are now necessary to support (welfare) needs of (vulnerable) groups in the digitizing society.

However, the current knowledge and methodologies for participatory and creative research are by no means all suitable for physical and digital use in this time and context, so that the following question is central to this project: ‘In what ways can we develop and deploy methods to study and subsequently promote well-being when physical proximity is complex?’

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Publications

New approaches for participation in digital society in distant times of COVID-19

(2021 )Marije Kanis, Joey van der Bie, Berber Nauta, Manon den Dunnen & Somaya Ben AllouchProceedings of CHI’21 workshop on Digital citizenship download

Behoeftes rondom (beweeg)activiteiten bij ouderen in tijden van Corona: Contextuele informatie inwinnen over behoeftes rondom bewegen, activiteiten en technologie bij ouderen met een co-creatieve toolkit op afstand

(2021 )Berber Nauta, Marije Kanis, Bart Visser, Somaya Ben Allouch & Daniël BossenNederlands Tijdschrift voor Oefentherapie, Jaargang 17 juni 2021, Nummer 2 download

Project duration

13 Jun 2021 -31 Dec 2021

Project manager

dr Marije Kanis

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

Annika Kuijpers

Students

Wij danken studenten Communication & Multimedia Design

CMD Beyond

CMD Behaviour design

Annette Hoijtink

Gina Verkerke

Marieke Hepkema

Funding

Dit project is oorspronkelijk gesteund door het Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation (CoECI).

Sub-projects

Co-Well: Co-Creative methods for wellbeing at a distance

Partners

• Lectoraat Creative Media for Social change
• Universiteit Utrecht
• eScience Center
• Arkin
• Duurzaam HvA (Green office)
• Politie

This research project is about prevention of unhealthy weight gain and obesity during crucial phases throughout the lifespan.

The aging population faces two conditions that threaten healthy aging: high fat mass (obesity) and low muscle mass and function (sarcopenia). Both conditions are independently associated with comorbidity, disability, low quality of life, and early death. The combination of both– referred to as sarcopenic obesity– synergistically increases the risk of adverse health outcomes. The two conditions often co-occur as they reinforce each other and share common aetiology, mainly poor nutrition and inactivity.

Although all aging people are at risk of gaining weight and losing muscle mass, during the transition from working life to retirement there is an even higher risk of becoming overweight and sarcopenic due to changes in hormonal status, poor nutritional intakes and lower physical activity levels. Even so, retirement offers a great window of opportunity to improve lifestyle, as older adults already need to restructure their daily activities. Furthermore, adopting a healthy lifestyle around the age of retirement offers sufficient time to prevent obesity, sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity and provides long-term benefits, including healthy ageing and dependence in later life.

To stimulate weight loss/prevent weight gain while preserving muscle mass, it is critical that both physical activity and adequate nutrition be addressed. It is key to change behaviour in a sustainable manner, providing scientifically proven, personalized, and acceptable principles that can be integrated in daily life. Health technologies are promising tools for delivering personalized and appealing lifestyle interventions to a large group of people while keeping health care costs low. At this moment, there is a lack of effective sustainable interventions that focus on retirement as an important turning point to promote both nutrition and physical activity behaviour.

We aim to provide essential insights required to develop innovative strategies for preventing obesity, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity. Using these insights, we will design a personalized digital program focused on nutrition and exercise that helps empowering people to lose weight while preserving muscle mass and function. We focus on a population that is, on the one hand, at high risk of developing sarcopenic obesity, while on the other hand showing a great window of opportunity of adopting a healthier lifestyle.

Have a look at the SO-NUTS website for some useful videos regarding behavioral change for lifestyle improvement.

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Project duration

1 Apr 2021 -31 Dec 2025

Project manager

prof. dr Peter Weijs, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

dr Sumit Mehra

Vincent Vijn

dr Michel Oey

Stephanie Kramer MSc

Farzaneh Salehi

Josje Schoufour, AUAS

Funding

JPI Healthy Diet for Healthy Life (HDHL) (EU financiering)

Partners

• Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft – IRYCIS Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
• Rocco Barazonni – European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)
• Doris Eglseer – Medical University of Graz
• Judith Liddell – European Federation of the Association of Dietitians (EFAD)
• Yves Boirie – University Clermont Auvergne
• Trudy Voortman – Erasmus MC

Well-functioning e-Health applications require the right data collection, for example the analysis of exercise patterns. The output is used to encourage healthy behaviour; offline via healthcare professionals or online via persuasive technology. If the project group properly sets up this infrastructure in a modular platform, researchers will be able to use the technical basics for multiple target groups in the future.

OBJECTIVE
The project team creates a springboard that realizes both more efficient development of future applications and faster implementation in practice.

METHOD
In the inventory phase, the project team draws up a package of technical requirements (functionalities, flexibility, safety and the like) and substantive requirements (interface, link with, for example, pedometers or existing applications). As soon as the requirements are clear, the researchers develop a prototype.

EXPECTED RESULTS / PRODUCTS
A modular system that researchers can extend to different target groups. This system forms an essential basis for several future subsidy applications within People in Movement.

SOCIAL IMPACT
This project provides an essential basis for future projects in which researchers use nutrition, exercise and creative technology to motivate at-risk groups to live healthier lives. In the coming years, for example, researchers within Mensen in Beweging (People in Motion) will focus on developing a blended intervention for vulnerable elderly people.

CONTRIBUTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
As a result of this project, researchers no longer have to develop a new platform from scratch for each project and think about management and infrastructure. They can further develop applications more quickly, build better on previous work for new grant applications and spend more resources on substantive research. This contributes to the quality and accessibility of the platforms, because researchers guarantee good security requirements and data storage within their projects (FAIR principles).

This project partakes in the SPRONG program People in Motion.

Project duration

1 Feb 2021 -31 Oct 2021

Project manager

Peter Weijs, Faculteit Bewegen, Sport en Voeding van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

Saskia Robben

Raoul Engelbert

Bart Visser

Daniël Bossen

Josje Schoufour

Martijn Stuiver

Niek van Ulzen

Funding

Dit project is gefinancierd vanuit een SPRONG subsidie.

Partners

The activities for the innovation projects are diverse, as they are carried out throughout the Netherlands by different customer groups within Bartiméus and different target groups/ types of people also participate in these activities.

In order to achieve greater impact with such innovation projects, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is conducting research into relevant impact factors in 2021 together with Bartiméus.
In the first phase, a theoretical framework will be built up and in the second phase this framework will be tested with a practical test with existing innovation projects.

In the theoretical framework attention is paid to whether the desired impact can be determined in advance within the innovation program and how this can be measured during and at the end of a project. Challenges within the projects are the diversity of innovations and the phase of implementation in which the innovation takes place.

In addition, several questions play an important role such as:

• Is a product user-friendly enough?
• Is improvement visible in areas such as mobility or quality of life?
• Can more effective client contact be achieved?
• Can the implementation be rolled out within and outside the organization?
• And how sustainable is the implementation?

The theoretical framework will be tested in existing eHealth projects such as video calling and online training. In 2020, these projects were set up and implemented at an accelerated pace due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it is expected that this acquired knowledge and developed methodologies will continue to be an important pillar within healthcare in the future.

At the end of the project, important insights will be obtained which impact can be generated within the innovation projects and how this can be measured – and also recorded in a report – so that more control can be done on this in the future.

Despite the fact that the research is mainly aimed at increasing the impact of Bartiméus activities, relevant results will be shared as much as possible with the entire sector.

Project duration

1 Jan 2021 -31 Dec 2021

Project manager

Joey van der Bie

Researchers

Joey van der Bie

dr Nienke Nijhof

Funding

Bartiméus Fonds

Partners

Stichting Bartiméus

On the other hand, the new digital situation and technological developments such as accessible maker tools, tangible interfaces, Internet of Things and smart sensing also create various new participative and empowering opportunities, particularly for progressing beyond the screen, and augmenting social, mental and physical wellbeing. E.g., as motivating factor for using new smart digital ways for supporting physical exercise, for smart remote detection of public sentiment and crowds, or creatively using robots to serve drinks or medicines at a 1.5 metre distance. Especially now, new tools, methods and knowledge are needed for adequately and responsibly designing and deploying such new ‘physical’ creative and digital (dis)connected ways.

Apart from affecting how we physically interact, design and make, the current COVID-19 situation has also caused us particularly to turn in how we approach face-to-face research. The question is how can we study and come up with successful and thoughtful tacit solutions when we cannot even be present? How can we develop new understandings when we cannot physically and visually observe those changes and collect data, for example from elderly in care homes? How can we develop those new understandings and tacit knowledge when we cannot even co-create physical prototypes together?
This calls for new participatory and creative research approaches and solutions -particularly for bridging the digital and physical divide. Think of remote physical making and particularly co-creation in place; other forms of data collection and creative research practices in a 1.5 metre-distant society. We propose to explore new co-creative methods that are needed for enabling responsible, tangible insights and grasp on what is happening now. This in relation to happy and healthy living during the pandemic itself and in the broader creative picture of our current long-term distant digital society. By collectively creating, studying, collecting data and sharing new (visual and palpable) insights and best practices, the idea is to better adapt to this situation and reinvent appropriate digital, physical and co-creative solutions and strategies for remote research and design in a smart, participatory and responsible 1.5-metre society.

To conclude, for supporting social, physical and mental wellbeing, this proposal focuses on new physical participative ways of digital and co-creative methods in times of virtual and distant connectedness.

Deliverables

– Showcase website Connectedcreative.nl met best practices en thematisering rondom Co-Well

– Blij op maat: Ontwikkeling van verschillende websites voor het delen van welzijnsbevorderende activiteiten met verschillende doelgroepen (Studenten project met 25 studenten van de HBO-ICT studie Enterprise Web Application)

– Happiness toolkit voor gebruikersonderzoek op afstand (met studenten van HvA minor Zorgtechnologie)

– Muziek playlist op Spotify voor co-creatieve inspiratie op afstand

– Vragenlijst resultaten voor articulatie, identificatie van behoeften en oplossingen van professionals

– (S)how your distance: On-line applicatie dat de afstand tussen you en een andere persoon kan bepalen met je camera (computer of smartphone)

Events

– SPUI25: ‘Van tekentafel tot praktijk’ – Werken aan Welzijn in Coronatijd (27 oktober 2020)
– Co-Well: Co-Creatie meeting (29 september 2020)
– Studenten werken aan toolkits voor welzijn in corona-tijd (2021)

Publications

• New approaches for participation in digital society in distant times of COVID-19, Marije Kanis, Joey van der Bie, Berber Nauta, Manon den Dunnen & Somaya Ben Allouch (2021) Proceedings of CHI’21 workshop on Digital citizenship
• Behoeftes rondom (beweeg)activiteiten bij ouderen in tijden van Corona: Contextuele informatie inwinnen over behoeftes rondom bewegen, activiteiten en technologie bij ouderen met een co-creatieve toolkit op afstand, Berber Nauta, Marije Kanis, Bart Visser, Somaya Ben Allouch & Daniël Bossen (2021) NtvO (preprint)
• Interview Dr Marije Kanis & Berber Nauta: creatief methode onderzoek activeert ouderen tijdens Corona
• BAAT ontwikkelt Studie toolkit voor digitaal bewegen op maat
• Digital life in the media with active toolkit

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Een deel van het onderzoek en thematiek zijn voortgezet in het project Co-Prodigy

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Project duration

6 Jul 2020 -31 Dec 2020

Project manager

dr Marije Kanis

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

Berber Nauta

Loes Bogers (LC Critical making)

Marjolein Ruijg (LC Interactive Public Spaces)

dr Niek van Ulzen (FAIR data steward)

Students

Minor Designing User Research

Entreprise Web Application (2de jaars)

Minor Zorgtechnologie

Funding

Dit project is mogelijk gemaakt middels de ACIN ontwikkelgelden 2020 (Nu CoECI).

Sub-projects

Co-Prodigy

Partners

• Mens in Beweging (Urban Vitality-Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
• Lectoraat oefentherapie (Project BAAT)
• Code4NL
• Universiteit Utrecht (Shihan Wang)
• Hasso Plattner Institute – The Human Computer Interaction Lab
• Kyub laser cutting
• Bartiméus
• EnableMe
• Saxion
• Drawup! -Danibal
• Sameric /Cliëntenbelang (Eric Groot-Kormelink)
• Textiel factorij

At the moment, there are no Dutch online self-management programs that specifically target people with osteoarthritis. There are exercise programs such as Join2move and E-exercise that are useful, effective and attractive. These are online programs in which patients are guided to perform weekly exercise assignments. However, what we have learned from these studies is that people with osteoarthritis mainly need information and support aimed at self-management. The question is how professionals and creative digital tools can best help with this.

In this preliminary research, we conduct a needs assessment for the development of an online self-management joint program. This must yield a technical and substantive exploration and protocol with a package of requirements and wishes.

Project duration

1 Apr 2020 -31 Dec 2020

Project manager

dr Martin van der Esch

Researchers

Joey van der Bie

dr Daniël Bossen

drs Minella Bakker

Funding

Urban Vitality Zaaigeld 2020

Partners

• Reade
• ReumaNederland

For example, very premature children have an increased risk of motor, cognitive and behavioural problems, which can later lead to poor school performance and social problems. The aim of the ToP program is to enable parents to better recognize the behavioural signals of their child (increase sensitivity) and to respond adequately (increase responsiveness) to their child in order to improve the developmental outcomes for their child. In addition, the strategies of the ToP program focus on reducing parental stress and giving these parents more knowledge about their child’s development. These strategies are individually tailored to the development phase of the child and the needs and possibilities of parents.

In this way, more knowledge of parents about the child’s development is associated with better development outcomes. Moreover, it is an important condition for empowerment. A digital solution could help provide (additional) information from the ToP program and make it more in line with the needs of different groups of parents.

With this preliminary research, we want to identify the needs and possibilities of an online application (eToP) with different groups of parents and develop a first prototype. It contributes to the mission of the ‘People in Movement’ (PiM) program because it focuses on a very vulnerable target group, combines movement and creative technology and involves (minor) students in the research.

Project duration

1 Dec 2019 -1 Jul 2020

Project manager

dr Raoul Engelbert

Researchers

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

Joey van der Bie

dr Martine Jeukens Visser

drs Monique Flierman

dr Daniël Bossen

dr Josje Schoufour

dr Fenna van Nes

drs Rosa de Boer

Sergio Bondietti

Funding

Urban Vitality Zaaigeld 2020

Partners

• Revalidatiegeneeskunde, Amsterdam UMC, (AMC)
• Amsterdam UMC, (AMC), Kindergeneeskunde
• Amsterdam UMC, (AMC), Neonatologie
• Vereniging van Ouders van Couveusekinderen (VOC)
• Hogeschool van Amsterdam – Minor Zorgtechnologie en Kinderen

Invisible data in a computer-controlled society
We increasingly live in an invisible world of data. Societal and technological developments, such as the rise of mass-production and distribution of products, digital techniques, and small intelligent devices have contributed to a world that can be characterized by virtual products and invisible, complex data transactions in which data and its usage is increasingly invisible. With the advent of “Big data” and computing intelligence, information is and can be increasingly produced, collected, analysed, shared and used. Additionally, with surveillance technology, everyday life can be routinely monitored. However, the underling processes and implications of such pervasive data systems are not always clearly seen, communicated or discussed with the public and consumer.

Physicalization in education
The growing collection of ‘big’ data and other technological means does not necessarily and directly lead to more knowledge, insights and skills. Still, new technological developments, such as digital fabrication in Fab lab-environments offer the possibility to make digital data more physical and so understandable. From the education perspective there is a demand for knowledge and understanding for enabling students to embrace and shape these developments, and increase 21st-century skills.

The aim of ‘Revealing design’ is to uncover the potential of data physicalization –making data tangible– as a way to support the 21st-century skills communicating, critical thinking and creativity. The primary goal is to investigate the potential value of data physicalization in education.

On April 23, 2018 we celebrated the kick-off of Zichtbaar slimmer (Revealing design) WITH cake and creative physicalization. Read here the detailed visual report..

On June 14, 2018 we held a try-out workshop Data physicalization in which the participants got to actively engage with making data tangible. The workshop @ de Waag was open to everyone! See this site for details, and here the workshop findings.

On the 19th of September 2018, we conducted a design session with teachers at the St Jan school. This is an important part in the co-creation process in which the project partners a collaboratively working on a successful teaching format for data physicalization and 21st-century skills.

After that, almost 100 children and teachers of the St. Jan school actively worked during the consecutive weeks on data physicalizations around the school project theme of friendship. The children of groups 7 and 8 made their own collected data tangible and physical for experiencing data in a different way.
On October 19, 2018, the children proudly presented their data physicalizations to their parents, teachers and the younger classesplease also see this news item). We hebben ook een video gemaakt van de resultaten.

In December 2018, there was another Data physicalization workshop for HvA Master Students in Teaching Economics. Many students stated that they wanted to apply this in their future teaching.

On March 15, 2019, we evaluated the research findings with the project partners, namely teachers of the elementary school St. Jan. We visualized and presented the results of the research in a booklet. See also this news item.
Furthermore, we discussed future directions and elaborated on important factors for a successful data physicalization lesson.

On the 11th of April, 2019, there was a Maker Education club evening at the Waag society in Amsterdam with a workshop and discussion around data physicalization for everyone in the field of maker education (namely Amsterdam’s teachers from elementary and high schools and library professionals).

On the 5th of May, 2019, Marije Kanis presented the vision of making physical at the international and prestigious CHI conference in Glasgow. See also this news item, and the paper Physical sensemaking: Crafting for an invisible world of data (2019) Marije Kanis, Proceedings of CHI2019 Workshop: Troubling Innovation: Craft and Computing Across Boundaries, Glasgow, Scotland

Handy goodies and publications

• Data sheets for physicalization - in Dutch
• Pinterest board Information physicalization with examples
• Hoe maak je data tastbaar? Examples of (data) physicalization
  Marije Kanis, Shavonda Kewaldar & Monique Pijls (2019) , Hogeschool van Amsterdam, NL
• Design canvas voor succesvolle datafysicalisatie (2019), Marije Kanis & Shavonda Kewaldar, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, NL
• Zichtbaar slimmer: Resultaten in beeld
  Marije Kanis, Shavonda Kewaldar & Monique Pijls (2019) Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Digital life, 2019, Amsterdam
• Revealing design: Physical & Visual results
  (English version) Marije Kanis, Shavonda Kewaldar & Monique Pijls (2019) Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Digital life, 2019, Amsterdam
• Physical sensemaking: Crafting for an invisible world of data (2019) Marije Kanis, Proceedings of CHI2019 Workshop: Troubling Innovation: Craft and Computing Across Boundaries, Glasgow, Scotland
• Video: Datafysicalisatie@St Jan (2019), Hogeschool van Amsterdam, NL
• Podcast Knowledge Know, Aflevering 7 met Marije Kanis, Presentatie Marlies Dinjens ism Daan Merkenhof (2020) op Spotify, (K)NOW #1, HvA, DMCI, Amsterdam
• textileRef:198113426461e944f8b2cd0:linkStartMarker:“Thinking and observing in different ways: Friendship made out of Lego and cardboard – Lectoraat Digital life
  Interview with Marije Kanis (2020) Jaarmagazine (K)NOW #1 [1], HvA, Kenniscentrum DMCI , Amsterdam , 10-11”:http://www.digitallifecentre.nl/redactie/resources/knownlfinal.pdf

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Project duration

15 Apr 2018 -1 Jul 2019

Project manager

dr Marije Kanis

Researchers

• Joey van der Bie
• Monique Pijls
• Loes Bogers
• Dop Terlingen
• Marianne Bossema
• Jelka Lustenhouwer

Students

Shavonda Kewaldar

Funding

Dit project is gefinancieerd middels de KIEM 21st Century regeling van regieorgaan NWO/SIA.

Partners

• Waag society
• St Jan school

Results

Within the project we organized 5 focus group sessions, several user test sessions and 3 workshops. These activities have so far resulted in 2 papers (ACM SIGACCESS 2019 en ACM MobileHCI 2019), 4 abstracts, 8 presentations at scientific or professional conferences and 4 demonstrations. We were present at the international Vision2017 conference, we gave a presentation to the association for the rehabilitation of partially sighted people (VRS), and actively discussed at the ZonMW Inzicht meeting. Moreover, we gave a workshop and demo at the ZiezoBeurs2018, we gave a demo and workshop on the Orientation and Mobility Day and we presented the EyeBeacons project to the residents of Amsterdam during the WeMakeTheCity event. More than 50 students made an active contribution to EyeBeacons through project assignments and internships. The students’ work was presented at the Thingscon2017 conference and other students actively participated in the ZieZoBeurs 2018 and 2019. The EyeBeacons project has been mentioned on national and international websites such as vvrbs.nl, nationalezorggids.nl, natuurzonderdrempels.nl, debelgischeoptiekgids.be, zonmw.nl, visio.org, saxion.nl en hva.nl. Recently we made a video in which we summarize the status of the project.

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Publications

Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with Beacons

(2016 )Joey van der Bie, Britte Visser, Jordy Matsari, Mijnisha Singh, Timon van Hasselt, Jan Koopman & Ben Kröse,Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct

Better wayfinding for visually impaired people: Integrating haptic feedback via a smartwatch

(2017 )Joey Van der Bie, Christina Jaschinski, Timon Van Hasselt, Jan Koopman, Somaya Ben Allouch & Ben KrösePaper presented at Vision 2017 download

Communicating multimodal wayfinding messages for Visually Impaired People via wearables

(2019 )Joey van der Bie, Christina Jaschinski & Somaya Ben AllouchMobileHCI’19 download

Sidewalk, a wayfinding message syntax for people with a Visual Impairment

(2019 )Joey van der Bie, Christina Jaschinski & Somaya Ben AllouchASSETS 2019 download

Lessons learned from co-creating a personal wayfinding app with people with a visual impairment

(2020 )Joey van der Bie, Christina Jaschinski, Somaya Ben AllouchVolume 4, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design4Health, Amsterdam, 2020 download

Project duration

1 Mar 2017 -1 Sep 2019

Project manager

Joey van der Bie

Researchers

Michel Mercera

prof. dr Somaya Ben Allouch

prof. dr Ben Kröse

Students

Corne Lukken

Remco van Swieten (UvA MSc)

Bernard de Mare

Mijnisha Singh

Jordy Matsari

Britte Visser (CMD)

Jeroen van Dam

Nikki Joosten

Matys Welle

Tim Moesgen

Pinar Kesenci

Konstantinos Partheniadis

Edwin Mello

Roselinde Loeffen

Genevieve Korte

Ondra Kochalaty

Bambi Boland

Beatriz Ibeas

Clement Breger

Peter Sabel

Paras Kumar

Merijn Molenaar

Tijmen Stor

Thijs Timmermans

Erik Wolters

Kenan Simsek

Laura van der Oord

Dieva Groenberg

Eyse Bethlehem

Freek Koldewijn

Ivo de Maijer

Joel Ruhe

Marco Wever

Ivo Markus

Jack de Bree

Jeroen van Velzen

Jordy Schaatsbergen

Junior Witteveen

Niels van Marion

Funding

“EyeBeacons, wayfinding in public spaces” is een ZonMW InZicht project, nr. 94312006.

Partners

• Research Centre Technology Health & Care (Saxion Hogescholen)
• Royal Visio
• Bartiméus
• Info.nl
• Lectoraat Media Design (Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen)