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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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Professional info

I am an associate professor at the Capacity Group User-Centred Engineering, of the Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology. I am champion of the Playful Interactions theme that arranges design projects for bachelor and master students.

My research interests include designing intelligent playful solutions for children and older adults, developing and 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 for children and elderly, more specifically, on user centred design methods and designing for physical and social activities. 

 

Current and Recent Activities

·         Project leader of the FES- CRISP project ‘Intelligent Play Environments’ (I-PE), in collaboration with TU Delft, Industrial Design (2011-2015)

·         Project member of the Play-Fit project, in collaboration with Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

·         Project member of the INTERREG project ‘PRO-FIT”, which examines how to create integrated intelligent solutions for sport motivation, and related field-labs (2011-2015)

·         Project member of the FES-CRISP project ‘G-motiv’ in collaboration with the TU delft (2011-2015)

·         Nominated for the Industrial Design Department of the TU/e for the Best Innovator Group (BIG) award in 2010 with the design research topic of Playful Interactions.

·         Project leader of the project: Playful Interactions supported by an Akademie-assistant grant of the KNAW (2009-2010)

·         Co-editor of a special issue on Designing for social interaction through physical play in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2010)

·         Visiting Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and technology, at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

·         Treasurer of the International Society of Gerontechnology (ISG).

Past Activities

·         Project member of the project Ambient Assisted Living (2009-2010)

·         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).