Maxim Van de Wynckel, a researcher at the WISE lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), successfully defended his Ph.D. in computer science on 30 June 2025. Over six years, he explored a major challenge facing many modern technologies: How can indoor positioning systems—which determine the location of people or objects inside buildings—work better together?
Interoperable indoor positioning systems can determine locations of people and objects within buildings
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Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with “doom scrolling,” where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a [...] -
In research published in Social Science Quarterly, the study’s investigator expected that migrants living in cities where local voting rights are extended to non-citizens would be more likely to engage in protests compared with those [...]
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Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and [...]
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During his recent public spat with Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if a new political party would better represent the 80% of voters in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people responded [...]
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Illegally manufactured fentanyl kills a significant number of people in the United States and Canada every year. Since the emergence of modern heroin markets in the late 1960s, controlling supply has been associated with important [...]
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Picture this: A person is so outraged by a company’s actions that instead of writing a complaint, they write a check to a charity that stands in direct opposition. Their donation isn’t just about doing [...]
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Youth volunteering encourages young men from politically disengaged homes to vote for the first time by raising their interest in civic life, new analysis shows.This post was originally published on this site
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A new study reveals that civil servants, like citizens, do not uniformly recognize and oppose political attacks on liberal democracy. How they view such attacks and respond depends heavily on their social and political affiliation. [...]
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Across much of Europe, the engines of economic growth are sputtering. In its latest global outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply downgraded its forecasts for the UK and Europe, warning that the continent faces [...]
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Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.This post was originally published on this site
