The last few years I’ve been involved in a number of courses and student projects.
I have been an adviser on a number of student bachelor and master projects within the Human- Centred Multimedia degree program (many of which together with Vanessa Evers). Past projects include: the effects of explanations on perceptions of a user-adaptive recommender (MSc. Satyan Ramlal, BSc. Sam Besselink), the effects of transparency on trust in a recommender on an e-government site (MSc. Eddy Bruin). Current projects include social aspects of human-robot interaction (Nicander Kemper), creativity and physical interaction in electronic music composition (Anne Zwijnenburg), effects of system empathy and adapting to users’ affective state (Jorrit Goddijn, Ron Kok) and interaction with mobile phones (Tim van Slooten).
Students, please contact us if you’re interested in projects involving themes such as affective aspects of human-computer interaction, interaction with semi-autonomous systems, trust in user-adaptive systems, mobile phones, managing perceptions in human-robot interaction and physical interaction. We have a number of projects available and you’re welcome to participate in our weekly meetings on human-computer interaction-related projects.
Past courses:
From March-May 2009 I was teaching research methods to information science & HCI students.
From 2005 -2008, I was teaching the undergraduate course ‘Applied Knowledge and Communication Systems’ together with Jacobijn Sandberg within the ‘Information Science’ program of the University of Amsterdam. Themes have included cultural heritage, human-robot interaction, visualisation, industrial design and user-adaptivity. The course description (in Dutch) can be found here. Students, you’ll find the Blackboard site here.
Other teaching activities I’ve been involved in, include courses on Knowledge Engineering, Introduction to Java programming and Human-Computer Interaction. You might have also encountered me in this year’s course on Human-Centred Multimedia, which featured development of location-aware mobile applications.
