In Western tradition, thinking has been commonly seen as a very secluded activity. As our environment is getting more and more saturated with technologies, it is becoming clear however, that our minds are less separated from the world as we might think. Many questions arise, questions about artificial intelligence, about the technologies we use to…
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This summer BijlesinWassenaar organizes a Summerclass during which pupils learn the basics of reading and writing code. They learn about if-statements, data types, loops and arrays. They are familiarized with new techniques such as Augmented and Virtual Reality. They apply their new learnt knowledge in a small project they make themselves!
For the Hack the Brain hackathon, organized by Waag Society, TNO and the Donders Institute, we created an immersive 3D environment of EEG data using the Oculus Rift. To experience our project you wear a cap with electrodes to capture an EEG signal from the electrical activity in your brain. The Oculus Rift places you…
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On the 28th of August 2013 I presented my graduation project, which was graded an 8.5. Developing an Augmented Reality application to promote an extended concept of cognition in education [ABSTRACT] The ever decreasing size and price of computer parts seems to be leading to computing power becoming ubiquitous. Similar to technology such as pen…
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After the success of the first edition of the 3 Oktoberapp in 2012, we developed a completely new 2013 edition, now for Android and iPhone. The app received 5000+ downloads. The 3 Oktoberapp 2013 includes a complete and scrollable program for Leidens Ontzet, a soundboard with carnival sounds and all sorts of extra information. …
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Together with Berber de Vries we developed ARBieb, an Augmented Reality application for children’s books. The app stimulates children to read books and share short reviews. At the same time, it introduces children to Augmented Reality. The app was developed using Unity and the Vuforia Augmented Reality library. The app can be downloaded from the…
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The MOOC on EU Law we created is online on Coursera! And it is featured in NRC.Next, with my leg on the front page.
In the fall of 2012 I made a short video (~10 minutes) for Slimmernetwerk, in which is shown why bottom-up innovation in public administration is necessary, how this can be achieved and what managers could do to help this. Slimmernetwerk is a network supported by the public program: ‘Innoveren door Professionals’. It is initiated by…
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Daniel Dennett has won the 2012 Erasmus price and because of this a Dennett week was organized in Amsterdam. Bas Haring and I made 9 infographics about some of Dennett’s ideas, for a exhibition in the Public Library of Amsterdam (OBA). Suzanne Hertogs (Ontwerphaven) designed the posters. This was a very cool project. Dennett liked…
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Together with Mathijs Buijs and Cas Dekkers we made an Android app for Leidens Ontzet 2012. It was a very last-minute plan; we only had a week or so to make the entire app. You can download the app here. The app was downloaded over 1300 times in three days and we were interviewed by Sleutelstad…
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My third project for New Media & New Technologies and first Android app. For centuries the ability to remember and recite complete monologues Ad verbatim was considered to be one of the most important intellectual virtues. With the development of technologies as the script, this mental ability has gone lost, just as Socrates already warned us for in Plato’s Phaedrus. The…
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An article I wrote for a course about the history of science is published by Eureka Magazine.
In the second project for New Media & New Technologies, I made a rock-paper-scissors game you can play using hand gestures.
In this project for New Media & New Technologies, I made a futuristic LED binary clock in the housing of an old mechanical clock, using Arduino.
Open space for the project I’ve done for the Sound, Space and Interaction course.
(From the website of the Media Technology MSc Program) Floating (2012) Floating is the title of a project by Berber de Vries, Robin de Lange and Atze de Vries. It was undertaken as part of the Media Technology semester project, in which groups of students must develop an experiential product from a single theme, in this case floating.…
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Soon: research proposal I have written for the Knowledge and Media course.
Final paper for the course Wikisofie ABSTRACT The Semantic Web is initiated as a project which would make the semantics of the information in the collection of documents which form the Web, understandable for machines. In this paper I will show some of the arguments for the statement that this project is too ambitious and…
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Laatste column voor het vak Wikisofie. In deze column wil ik een licht werpen op de volgende stelling: “Door leden van de samenleving toegang te geven tot een gemeenschappelijk fonds van probleemoplossingen en handelingsmogelijkheden, wordt enerzijds de cognitieve druk op het individu ontlast, maar zou de samenleving anderzijds ook aan creativiteit en originaliteit kunnen inboeten.”…
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Demonstration of our project for the course Web Technology. *Video coming soon