I am a human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher with a background in Cognitive Science. I am a tenure-track researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), within the Distributed & Interactive Systems (DIS) group. Previously, I did my Postdoc at the HCI Oldenburg lab, part of the Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems group at the University of Oldenburg / OFFIS (Germany). I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), working at the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group.
My current research focuses on human activity sensing and recognition, mobile and wearable interaction techniques , and multimodal interaction , unified by the goal of further understanding human behavior and emotion. While I typically draw on machine learning and cognitive (neuro)science methods, I typically combine this with qualitative methods.
I am currently seeking motivated M.Sc. students to work with me on exciting HCI and AI research projects. If you are enrolled in Computer Science, Artifical Intelligence, or Industrial Design (Engineering) at a Dutch university and interested, please email me a recent copy of your CV and transcript.
Research Interests:
- Affective computing
- Multimodal (mobile) interaction
- Wearable sensing & behavior prediction
- Human activity recognition
- Social media data mining
- Urban mobility and interaction
