Projects
Digitized evidence based transmural care programs in a network between primary care and hospital: impact on quality of care and patient experience KU Leuven
Present healthcare is characterized by patients with multiple and chronic conditions, due to aging and medical technological evolutions. Another increasing trend in healthcare is short-term hospitalization (32% of all admissions in secondary care in 2014) (Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid. n.d.).
Patients nowadays are frequent users of hospitals, primary care and even increasingly self-care (Allen, ...
From office spaces to office places: A psychological perspective on employees' experience of the physical work environment. KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation aimed at deepening the study and comprehension of the employee experience in (new) physical work environments, adding to prior research in two specific ways. First, concerning the theoretical positioning, we took a clear psychological angle in investigating employees’ feelings and behavior at the workplace. Second, concerning the research method, we carried out the studies consistently relying on the quantitative ...
Personalization of the 3D audio experience University of Antwerp
The Stirring of the Religious Space. Late medieval perception and experience in the Antwerp Church of Our Lady (c. 1450-1566) KU Leuven
This dissertation is part of an interdisciplinary BRAIN-be project, a research collaboration of the KU Leuven, UCL and KIK-IRPA Brussels. The project aims at conducting an iconological and anthropological research devoted to the late medieval and early modern liturgical heritage (ornamenta sacra) from the Southern Netherlands. The historical framework of Wauters’ study spans the complex development of an urban parish where the limits ...
The Difference Disability makes: Learning about Interactions with Architectural Design from Four Architects Experiencing Disability KU Leuven
Interactions between disability and architectural design are commonly associated with accessibility codes. These associations have contributed to standardizing, and devaluating, disabled people’s varied and rich experiences. Some so-called architectural ‘solutions’ aimed to solve disabled people’s ‘problems’ are often rejected – by disabled people and architects alike – due to architects’ over-attention for functional aspects at the expense ...
How do disabled architects design? Exploring the potential of embodiment in architectural design KU Leuven
Designers of products, software, buildings and environments increasingly involve users in the design process. This tendency demonstrates the need for new ways of designing, which attempt to restore the feedback loop between processes of design and practices of use that got interrupted since the industrial revolution. This restoring remains limited, however: even if users are involved in design, designers cannot gain direct access to their ...
Feasibility of free farrowing ("Haalbaarheid van vrijloopkraamhokken" in Dutch) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What should pig farmers choose if they need to (re)construct new(er) farrowing housing for their sows in the near future? Since traditional farrowing crates offer limited freedom of movement, they may want to consider free-range farrowing crates. These represent innovative, welfare-friendly housing of the individual sow in the farrowing pen. However, objective practical knowledge and ...
‘For the public, by the public’: Coping with dilemmas in the coproduction of public services KU Leuven
Introduction and background
This first part of the title of the thesis ‘By the public, for the public?’, refers first to the evolution to co-production of public services, where public services are delivered for the public, with and by the public. In co-production citizen co-producers (users and/or citizens as part of the community) actively and voluntarily collaborate with professionals in producing public services, ...
COBOFIN: NAAR EEN VERSNELDE INTRODUCTIE VAN GECOBOTISEERD SCHUREN EN ONTBRAMENVAN KLEINE REEKSEN Sirris, the collective centre for the technological industry
Plastic and metal parts often need finishing (deburring, sanding,...) in order to achieve the required final quality. Today, these post-processing operations are mainly manual. The finishing operations are regarded as monotonous, stressful, dirty, time-consuming and costly. In addition, many companies do not find suitable personnel to carry out these tasks. Automation of these operations is therefore necessary in order to remain ...