Mobiserv
2010-2013: 3-year EU-funded research project at Smart Homes.
2010-2013: 3-year EU-funded research project at Smart Homes.
Goal: Designing and developing a social robot and intelligent home environment
to provide health, nutrition and safety support to older people.
Methodology: User-centred design project, including interviews, observations, diary studies, concept generation, prototyping and several rounds of user tests.
Results: The project has started in January 2010. It combines a personal robot, artificial intelligence, and home automation. More info can be found at www.smart-homes.nl.
Methodology: User-centred design project, including interviews, observations, diary studies, concept generation, prototyping and several rounds of user tests.
Results: The project has started in January 2010. It combines a personal robot, artificial intelligence, and home automation. More info can be found at www.smart-homes.nl.
CompanionAble
2010-2012: 4-year EU-funded research project at Smart Homes.
2010-2012: 4-year EU-funded research project at Smart Homes.
Goal: Designing and developing a cognitive assistive
companion robot, combining robotics and ambient intelligence
to support people suffering from mild cognitive impairments.
Methodology: Research and design project including early prototyping, early user evaluations through Wizard of Oz studies, redesigns, and final large-scale user evaluations with a fully working setup.
Results: The project has started in January 2008. More info can be found at www.smart-homes.nl.
Methodology: Research and design project including early prototyping, early user evaluations through Wizard of Oz studies, redesigns, and final large-scale user evaluations with a fully working setup.
Results: The project has started in January 2008. More info can be found at www.smart-homes.nl.
Immersion@Distance
2009: Nine-month graduation project at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Antwerp.
2009: Nine-month graduation project at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Antwerp.
Goal: Designing concepts to support smooth and natural initiation
of informal opportunistic communication by distributed knowledge workers.
Methodology: Research and design project, including literature study, observations, interviews, diary studies, brainstorming, sketching, conceptualization, video prototyping, expert reviews and user evaluations.
Results: Six new concepts, two video prototype visualizations, and much valuable user data collected through several evaluation sessions.
Methodology: Research and design project, including literature study, observations, interviews, diary studies, brainstorming, sketching, conceptualization, video prototyping, expert reviews and user evaluations.
Results: Six new concepts, two video prototype visualizations, and much valuable user data collected through several evaluation sessions.
ActiveShare: Sharing challenges to increase physical activity
2008: Ten-week design case for Philips Research.
2008: Ten-week design case for Philips Research.
Goal: Designing and testing a persuasive technology concept to increase
the physical activity of sedentary office workers.
Methodology: User-centered design, including literature study, user studies, several design iterations of prototyping, user testing, and re-designing, a final implementation and a three-week user evaluation.
Results: The ActiveShare concept (video on Vimeo) with many valuable user data, and a publication at CHI 2009 in Boston (paper at ACM).
Methodology: User-centered design, including literature study, user studies, several design iterations of prototyping, user testing, and re-designing, a final implementation and a three-week user evaluation.
Results: The ActiveShare concept (video on Vimeo) with many valuable user data, and a publication at CHI 2009 in Boston (paper at ACM).
AugNav: Augmented Reality Navigation
2008: One-week project on multimodal perception, coached by Jim Juola.
2008: One-week project on multimodal perception, coached by Jim Juola.
Goal: Design or re-design a daily product using the user's multimodal perception.
Methodology: Brainstorming, sketching and video prototyping.
Results: Based on next generation mobile phones with GPS, a camera, and fast internet, we came up with an augmented reality navigation concept, using the camera's live footage to project navigation information on. We also envisioned automated detection of road signs. (Read more)
Methodology: Brainstorming, sketching and video prototyping.
Results: Based on next generation mobile phones with GPS, a camera, and fast internet, we came up with an augmented reality navigation concept, using the camera's live footage to project navigation information on. We also envisioned automated detection of road signs. (Read more)
Philips Amigo Extended Home
2008: Three-week user experience evaluation for Philips Research.
2008: Three-week user experience evaluation for Philips Research.
Goal: User testing the Philips Extended Homes project, part of the
EU-funded Amigo project on ambient intelligence
(see the demo on YouTube).
Methodology: We connected two living rooms with the Extended Home interactive TV, digital photo frames, lights and a social robot. 40 test users performed several tasks, and were observed and interviewed afterwards. Have a look at our video report.
Results: Results of the interviews were analyzed and transformed into design recommendations.
Methodology: We connected two living rooms with the Extended Home interactive TV, digital photo frames, lights and a social robot. 40 test users performed several tasks, and were observed and interviewed afterwards. Have a look at our video report.
Results: Results of the interviews were analyzed and transformed into design recommendations.
Wii Multiplayer: Friends or Foes
2008: Three-week observation study, coached by Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts.
2008: Three-week observation study, coached by Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts.
Goal: Measure emotional engagement in a multiplayer game on the
Nintendo Wii, to decide what is more engaging: cooperative (together against a computer)
or versus (against each other).
Methodology: Observation of non-verbal behavior by an observation rating technique, similar to this paper.
Results: Participants played tennis in two conditions. Their observation videos were rated by a second group of participants. We statistically analyzed differences across cooperative/versus and won/lost conditions.
Methodology: Observation of non-verbal behavior by an observation rating technique, similar to this paper.
Results: Participants played tennis in two conditions. Their observation videos were rated by a second group of participants. We statistically analyzed differences across cooperative/versus and won/lost conditions.
Context Awareness in Ambient Intelligence Surroundings
2007: Nine-month graduation project at Philips Research.
2007: Nine-month graduation project at Philips Research.
Goal: Design a context awareness model for the intelligent
interactive shopping window
of an ambient intelligence project in the
Philips ExperienceLab.
Methodology: Finding requirements by a literature study, scenario analysis, and several brainstorms. Designing, developing, user testing, and integrating with existing applications.
Results: A compact hierarchical model representing context data was developed, tested and proven to be highly expressive and robust.
Methodology: Finding requirements by a literature study, scenario analysis, and several brainstorms. Designing, developing, user testing, and integrating with existing applications.
Results: A compact hierarchical model representing context data was developed, tested and proven to be highly expressive and robust.
