The sense of time is directly involved in most of the daily activities of humans and animals. However, the cognitive mechanisms that support experiencing and processing time remain unknown, with the assumption of the clock-like tick accumulation dominating the field. The present work aims to explore whether temporal cognition may be developed without the use of clock-like mechanisms. We evolve ...

Experiencing Interaction Design: A Pragmatic Theory Ronald Lengkong Wakkary This thesis conlribules a theory for the field of interaction design based on philosophical pragmatism. The theory frames interaction design as a pragmatic experience shaped by the inquiries of designers. The contributions of the theory are that it positions the designer at the centre of a theory, describes interaction ...

In this paper, we discuss player experiences relating to the interaction with objects included as part of mobile mixed reality games. In particular we focus on the player experience of a touch based reality interface using mobile phones equipped with RFID/NFC reader/writers for interaction with the RFID tagged objects used in three different mobile mixed reality games. The player experience hig...

Large numbers of websites contain (human-readable) information about scheduled events, of which some may display media captured at these events. This information is, however, often incomplete and always locked into the sites. This prevents users from creating overviews of media associated with an event from multiple websites. We carried out exploratory user studies with potential end-users to g...

In view of Vincent Van Gogh’s 125 th death anniversary in 2015, the Regional council West Brabant and the city of Breda with its surroundings commissioned our university the drafting of a tourism development plan for the Dutch region of West Brabant using Van Gogh as a brand image. Van Gogh the artist is mostly associated to Amsterdam, where the museum named after him and collecting most of his...

This study examined the experiences of persons with incomplete spinal cord injury who participated in loco-motor training (LT). LT is an emerging rehabilitation intervention for enhancing the recovery of walking in persons with central nervous system disorders. Multiple interviews and field observations provided data from eight participants, including four veterans. Findings indicate that exper...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to explore the degree of psychological distress, anxiety, and trauma related stress reactions in mothers who experience preterm birth. Secondarily, we wanted to identify possible predictors of maternal mental health problems. METHODS Twenty-nine mothers of 35 premature children born before 33rd week of pregnancy were assessed within two weeks after given bi...

The study was based on the non-participant involvement of the researcher in four six-to-eight weeks' mindfulness meditation training courses led by chartered psychologists. The participants suffered from stress/sleeplessness, depression or agoraphobia in the presented cases. They were selected on the basis of recommendations by the psychologist who was the course instructor, who described them ...

Alaska Simulator is an interactive software tool developed at the University of Innsbruck which allows people to explore different approaches to process flexibility by using a familiar metaphor, i.e., travel planning and execution. In addition, Alaska Simulator is used for studying research questions in the context of business process management and other related fields. For this, Alaska Simula...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to show what the experience of local anaesthesia and a surgical situation meant to patients. BACKGROUND Many patients who receive local anaesthesia will remain awake during surgery. The very fact of staying awake causes psychological and psychosocial needs. These needs must be met and it is therefore important to identify them. DESIGN/METHOD Sev...