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Publication When Facts Fall Short: Tackling Unfalsifiable Claims in Sustainability Education(2025-05-08)In sustainability education, many claims are unfalsifiable. These include vague statements, normative assumptions, or speculative predictions that resist empirical testing yet shape pedagogical discourse and policy. Drawing on philosophical insights from Popper, as well as logic-based mythbusting strategies proposed by John Cook and others, this post examines how educators can critically engage with such claims. Rather than attempting to falsify, I argue for exposing their logical weaknesses, rhetorical techniques, and conceptual ambiguities. The goal is not to eliminate unfalsifiable beliefs, but to recognize and evaluate them responsibly—strengthening clarity, intellectual rigor, and professional judgment in the face of persuasive yet problematic narratives. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beyond Training: A Personalized Holistic Injury Prediction in Triathletes(2025-06-16)Triathlon training combines swimming, cycling, and running, often at high volumes, to prepare athletes for longdistance events. The highly intense physical demand puts athletes at significant risk of overuse injuries. While wearable devices provide continuous, high-frequency insights into an athlete's physiological response to training, extracting meaningful, actionable patterns remains a challenge-especially for everyday users. Understanding these metrics and their relationship with injury risk is critical to optimizing training strategies and preventing injuries before they occur. This work proposes a learning model to identify patterns that indicate an increased risk of injury, allowing proactive adjustments to training loads. However, building a generalizable model in sports science and healthcare presents a key challenge: the need for large, high-quality labelled datasets, which are often limited by privacy concerns. To address this limitation, this work also explores the generation and application of a highly realistic synthetic dataset that ensures robust model training while mitigating privacy constraints. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Comparing Business Models for Optimizing Turnover in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations(IEEE, 2025-06-16)This paper addresses the central question on how to optimize turnover of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) during peak demand. We evaluate and compare different business models (BMs), including smart pricing, release & reward, and auction-based mechanisms, that introduce dynamic pricing and negotiation strategies to reduce congestion and increase station utilization. Queuing at charging stations is a growing problem due to the increasing popularity of EVs, thus, new approaches are needed to minimize waiting times and congestion at charging stations without expanding the infrastructure. To assess the impact of different BMs, we use a data-driven agent-based simulation, modeling realistic customer behavior and charging dynamics. Our results show that negotiationbased approaches leveraging game theory and Nash equilibrium can significantly enhance station efficiency. The auction-based model increased turnover by nearly 6% compared to the baseline, demonstrating its potential as a practical solution for peakdemand management. These findings suggest that tailored BMs can play a crucial role in optimizing EVCS operations, striking a balance between provider revenue and customer incentives. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beyond Safety: Towards Non-Stigmatizing Mobile Emergency Watches that Empower Older Adults(SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2025)The ageing population presents significant challenges for healthcare systems, creating a need for innovative digital health technologies (DHTs) to enhance autonomy, safety, and care outcomes for older adults. Mobile emergency watches offer a modern, non-stigmatizing alternative to traditional emergency buttons, combining mobility and functionality. This paper explores their potential to bring relief to older adults as well as overloaded healthcare systems by appealing to a broader audience and enabling more independent lifestyles than traditional emergency devices and addresses three core challenges: (1) balancing simplicity and reliability with advanced functionalities; (2) achieving equitable, personalised designs that balance non-stigmatizing aesthetics and functionality; and (3) navigating fragmented and evolving regulatory frameworks for DHTs. These challenges are analysed through the lens of a single case study, based on an expert interview and publicly available information on a mobile emergency watch startup. The paper discusses pathways to overcome these barriers, bridging gaps between innovation, user needs, and regulatory requirements.Type:Journal:Volume:Issue: - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Continuous value shaping: A boundary concept for innovating service innovation approaches(2025-04-01)Technological advancements and evolving value orientations reshape future value creation and pose new requirements for service innovation. While a variety of disciplines are developing new approaches to drive service innovation, this is primarily done in isolation and generates only fragmented solutions. Sociological theory has proposed “boundary objects” as an effective umbrella for communication and cooperation among communities. Therefore, we introduce continuous value shaping (CVS) as a boundary object describing service innovation approaches along five principles. We reflect on this concept through the different disciplinary lenses of researchers in service marketing, information systems, service engineering, sociology of work, and innovation management. These perspectives highlight how the CVS principles already connect to discourses within the individual disciplines. However, the CVS concept will not only provide an umbrella to embrace existing activities in different academic disciplines. It also assists to identify research themes that will benefit from uniting the power of these disciplines, and it can serve as an integrating framework to conceptualize complex service innovation approaches. Thus, the CVS concept should guide both researchers and practitioners to develop and implement novel innovation and transformation efforts—in and across organizations.Type:Journal:Volume:Issue:
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Publication Barnes & Noble: Turning the Page to Compete in a Digital Book Market(The Case Centre, 2020)This short case covers the recent strategic developments of Barnes & Noble, the largest US book chain, and puts them in the context of its peers worldwide (in the UK, Canada, Germany and France). The perspective of the case is the one of James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble since August 2019. Readers are put in his shoes and are asked to analyze Barnes & Noble's response strategy to an increasingly digital book market. This short case is intended to serve as part of a course session on digitalization strategies or strategic change responding to macro trends. The case can support a full 45-minute class session, or can be integrated into a 90-minute session that also includes theory input by the lecturer. The case questions are open-ended but intended to introduce frameworks to assess strategic change and response strategies to exogenous shocks. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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