During the past years, I have given the following talks, invited talks, tutorials and conference presentations:
Design: Jamie LOD-iver (2017)
For the HackaLOD 2018 challenge, we created ‘Jamie LOD-iver’, a tool to search historical recipes – winning the 1st prize.
ReVI Project (2018-2019)
The ReVI project focuses on enhancing the Resource Viewer of the CLARIAH Media Suite. Role: researcher/designer/developer
Video: Visual Navigation Project teaser (2017)
Rethinking Visual Navigation for Library Collections is a teaser trailer shown at the VIRAK conference in 2017.
Thesis (2018): Supporting the Complex Dynamics of the Information Seeking Process
Search engines increasingly serve as the prime intermediaries between user and information. Their features have converged to a very streamlined set: a single search box and 10 ‘blue links’. However, in the context of complex tasks involving learning and knowledge construction, the search process is far from straightforward, as various information seeking models have evidenced. …
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Design: Abel Prize Touch Table App (2017-18)
For the Abel Prize, a prestigious Norwegian prize, I worked on the design, creation and evaluation of a touch table application.
Paper: Active & Passive Utility of Search User Interface Features (2016)
In 2015, I did an internship at the Mixed Reality Lab of the University of Nottingham. While there, I conducted a user study, focused on discerning search stages in users’ complex searches. 26 participants had to carry out 3 distinct tasks, representing pre-focus, focus formulation and post-focus stages (as defined by Vakkari). We captured active …
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Paper: Lost but Not Forgotten – Finding Pages on the Unarchived Web (2015)
At every tick of the clock, pages and sites on the World Wide Web are continuously appear, evolve and disappear. The volatile nature of the web has led to numerous initiatives to archive it, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, or the Dutch Web archive. The resulting web archives are a valuable source for researchers …
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Web: Repair Cafe site (2012-13)
I had the privilege to redevelop the websites of the Dutch Repair Café foundation at the moment of a major growth period.
Web: Visualizing Climate Change Research on a Geomap (2009-12)
For large Dutch research programmes on climate change, I created an interactive and animated geo-visualization using Google Maps.
Design: Semantic Search Suggestions (2011)
During the EuropeanaTech conference, I joined a hackathon, and did the designs for a visual query suggestion tool – winning the 2nd prize.
Video: ‘O.Pardon’ animation (2010)
For the Dutch clothing retail chain Sissy-Boy, I created an animation marketing their new ‘O’Pardon’ jeans brand.