2019, Article in monograph or in proceedings (HTTF 2019: Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019)Mixed reality applications can enrich museum exhibits and make them more attractive to an audience of adolescents. However, in the design of such applications, we face a myriad of possibilities and little guidance on how to choose between (early) alternatives. In this paper, we explore the notion of experience blend -which could act as an aesthetic governing the design of mixed reality experiences. We present an effort to operationalize experience blend and illustrate its use in the design and evaluation of an application for an art museum. Stakeholders in the project assumed that in order to reach out to adolescents an exciting experience was needed, deviating from education and breaking with the hidden rules of the art-museum, our user study showed that adolescents favored a blended experience. This suggests experience blend may be a helpful aesthetic in the design of other mixed reality experiences.
2017, Article / Letter to editor (NTZ. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de zorg aan mensen met verstandelijke beperkingen, iss. nr. 2, (2017), pp. 108-124)Dit artikel behandelt de problematiek van transities en continuïteit van ondersteuning bij mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Het onderzoek kijkt naar de vraag welke wensen en behoeften mensen met een lichte en matige verstandelijke beperking (of gezinnen met één of meerdere gezinsleden met een verstandelijke beperking) hebben ten aanzien van flexibele levensloopondersteuning. Deze wensen en behoeften zijn in samenwerking met de doelgroep vertaald in een prototype van een applicatie voor het signaleren van transities en het bevorderen van ondersteuning.
2016, Article in monograph or in proceedings (Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct, pp. 1498-1502)
2014, Article in monograph or in proceedings (Chi Sparks 2014)In this paper we present the design and field trial of the Dynamic Collage. The Dynamic Collage was designed to facilitate and to stimulate participation of family members in the informal care of an elderly person. The Dynamic Collage enabled relatives to update their current activity by sending a photo to a digital collage at the elderly person's living space. The service is triggered when a family member visits the elderly person. The field trial revealed that all family members valued this type of communication and that they became more aware of informal care. This shows there are opportunities to support informal care in a broader circle than current practices allow. Apart from informal care, our design case contributes to the field of social awareness systems, which we will discuss in the paper.