Researching and Creating Human-Centered AI for Personalization
Today I graduated after defending my thesis in front of Joe Konstan, Jürgen Ziegler, Paul de Bra, Maurits Kaptein, and my team of supervisors Martijn Willemsen, Chris Snijders and Mykola Pechenizkiy. The research in this…
I spent a week in Tokyo, where I attended the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference. I co-organized the HUMANIZE, a workshop aimed at incorporating psychological theory in personalized interfaces. If you are interested in this…
In a previous post I did a visual analysis of the relationship between heart rate and velocity. It always is a good start to get a feeling for the data when starting any data science…
A Data Science Approach to Monitoring Fitness in Preparation of My First Race In preparation for my first ever race, I’ll be mining the data from my cycling computer. I’m trying to see if and how…
ClouwdNine For those of you that don’t know together with some other heads I run things for clouwdnine.com. Our website was recently attacked, presumably because of the availability of Low Orbit Ion Cannon or similar simple…
Since we moved servers for clouwdnine.com, I had some troubles with getting the “Now Playing” text right. Before, this was always populated with the Description or Name our DJs would enter in BUTT. This allowed us to…
Today I gave a presentation on the first Machine Learning Netherlands meetup. I presented my take on adopting a more user-centered perspective in recommender systems, through user feedback. If you’re interested, find my slides on…
After having moved recently I started to think about having a proper camera setup for my attic studio. I’ve been using a action cam that doubles as webcam, but image quality cannot be altered at…
What is Innovation In a way, patents can be used for a fitting definition of innovation. Namely, the ideas that patents aim to protect are the innovations. In order for a patent to be granted it is necessary that…
Some time ago I wrote a short article published on the Dutch platform dutchcowboys.nl. It is a Dutch essay highlighting the implications on user experience of the implementation of the European Union guidelines concerning privacy…