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Contact Details
Capacity Group User-Centred Engineering
Department of Industrial Design
Eindhoven University of Technology
HG 2.55, P.O.Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

E-mail: m.m.bekker@tue.nl
Telephone: +31 40 2475239
Fax: +31 40 2473285

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News

Ninth International conference for " Interaction Design and Children" 2010 (IDC2010)

Barcelona, Spain

June 3-5,  2009

 

Professional info

I am an assistant professor at the Capacity Group User-Centred Engineering, of the Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology. My research interests include designing intelligent play concepts, evaluating design techniques for involving users in (early) design and providing support for design practitioners for the selection and tailoring of design techniques to specific design projects.

I teach and do research in the area of interaction design and children, more specifically, on user centred design methods and designing for physical and social play.  I am champion of the Playful Interactions theme that arranges design projects for bachelor and master students.

 

Biography

I studied Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology from 1982 until 1988. Then I worked at IPO for one year, examining usability issues of using of mouse and speech input for text annotation systems. In 1995, I obtained a PhD at the Delft University of Technology on the subject of support for communication within design teams.

From 1995 until 1997, I worked at the HCI group of the Computer Science Department of the Queen Mary and Westfield College in London, on research on how to involve users in the design of interactive systems.

In 1997, I became a member of the User Centred Design programme at IPO, Center for user-system interaction. In 1998, I became an assistant professor in User Centred Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I have started working at the department of Industrial Design at the beginning of 2004.

Current Activities

·         Project leader of the project: Playful Interactions supported by an Akademie-assistant grant of the KNAW

·         Project member of the project Ambient Assisted Living (2010)

·         Co-editor of a special issue on Designing for social interaction through physical play in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Past Activities

·         Member of program committee of the Design and Children conference 2009

·         Project member of the CCF project Intelligent Playgrounds (2008)

·         Project leader of the ‘Move-it’ project funded by the Eindhoven council

·          (Co-) Organizer of the workshop on Designing for social interaction through physical play at the Fun and Games 2008 Conference in Eindhoven.

·         Doctoral Consortium co-chair Design and Children conference IDC 2008

·         Program co-chair Interaction Design and Children conference IDC 2007

·         Member of Doctoral Consortium committee Computer Human Interaction conference CHI 2001

·         Member of Doctoral Consortium committee Human Computer Interaction conference BCS-HCI 1997

·         Project leader of the IOP-MMI project “Evaluating Children’s Technologies”

·         Special issue of Interacting with Computers (2003) on " Interaction Design and Children".

·         Co-chair of "Interaction Design and Children" IDC 2002 (1st event of a series).