Kyra Frederiks

Eindhoven University of Technology | TUE · Department of Industrial Design

Background The subtle communicative behaviour of individuals with visual and severe/profound intellectual disabilities hinders the success of their interaction with professional caregivers. The bioresponse system, a tool to raise caregivers' awareness of the client's communicative behaviour, may improve the client's joint attention behaviour and th...

Psychological science is in a transitional period: Many findings do not replicate and theories appear not as robust as previously presumed. We suspect that a main reason for theories not appearing as robust is because they are too simple. In this paper, we provide an important step towards this transition in the field of interpersonal relationship...

Introduction: Caregivers of adults with severe or profound intellectual disabilities experience daily challenges in interpreting the individuals’ subtle, non-verbal communication behaviour. Aim: We developed a bio-response system–a skin conductance sensor sock connected to a Shimmer 2R biophysical sensor and an Android app—to provide caregivers wit...

Parents of children with the Prader-Willi syndrome have shown to experience difficulties in interpreting their child’s signals and experience a lack of interest from their child, which causes a risk for a disrupted bonding process between the child and his or her parents. Evidence suggests that this is mainly due to the fact that these children are...