Working on Human-Centric AI
Introduction Recently I’ve said farewell to my academic career and switched back to industry. While I haven’t regretted that move for one moment, I started having some concerns on if I will be able to…
I wrote a book chapter for “Personalized Human-Computer Interaction”, together with Bruce Ferwerda. In the chapter we present an overview of studies that rely on some form of psychological theory as the basis for user…
I have been an assistant professor for about 6 weeks now, and it has been quite hectic. I have spent a lot of time meeting new people, deciding on which research lines to start, finishing…
Today I started working at the Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the School of Business and Economics in Maastricht University and at the Business Innovation and Smart Services (BISS) Institute in Brightlands Campus, Heerlen.
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…
Tomorrow I leave for Dublin to attend RecSys2012. Together with Dirk Bollen and Martijn Willemsen I performed a study on how memory effects influence the ratings people will give. The main finding is that as…
The first milestone in my PhD project is nearly reached. For the continuation of my research it is necessary to have a recommender system that I can easily manipulate for research, which has now been delivered in the form of a combination of ServiceStack and MyMediaLite. …
So I finally graduated. My thesis took around 13 months to complete, but was graded with an 8.5/10, which is high enough to forget about how long it took. The thesis is available from the…