Keynotes
Prof. Dr. Bernard Veldkamp is Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, the Netherlands. Dr. Veldkamp specializes in research methodology and data analytics. His interests focus on optimization, text mining, and computer-based assessment. His work spans a range of issues in educational, psychological, and health sciences, from the development of new methods/models for the design and construction of (adaptive) psychological and educational tests, to the development of data mining models for analyzing verbal data, intensive longitudinal data, or large datasets in, for example, dialy-life stress or fraud detection.
Anne-Marie Brouwer is senior scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Soesterberg) and part-time full professor 'Mental State Monitoring' at Radboud University/Donders Centre in Nijmegen. Anne-Marie studied experimental psychology in Nijmegen and obtained her PhD on eye-hand coordination research in 2002 at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. Following post-docs at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen and the University of Rochester (NY) she started working at TNO in 2007. Since 2007 her main topic of research is BCI and using brain and other physiological signals as potential sources of information about an individual’s cognitive and emotional state. Anne-Marie works on basic research projects for and in collaboration with different parties, such as basic science funds, defense, and food industry. She is dedicated to explore the added value of physiological measures, connecting lab and real life studies, discuss the challenges that still exist and finding ways to cope with these.
Enrico Gianluca Caiani has a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (1996) and has obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2000 with a thesis on development of methods for the analysis of left ventricular function (Paolo Durst Award for the best PhD thesis). Since 2005, he is assistant professor (researcher) at the Department of Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano, now incorporated into DEIB. In 2014, he has received the Italian Certification for tenured Associate Professorship and for tenured Full Professorship. His teaching activities include the class of Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory, and the class of Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis. Since 2000, he collaborates with the Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratory, University of Chicago, where he was Research Associate in 2000 and 2003. In 2001, he took part in the Italian astronaut selection, qualifying in the first three places. Moreover, he collaborates with the Department of Space Physiology of the Université Bordeaux Segalen and with the Laboratory of Physics and Physiology of the Université libre de Bruxelles on research dealing with modifications of the cardiovascular system during parabolic flight (experimented in > 700 parabolas) performed) and bed rest. He is author of 3 book chapters and >60 peer reviewed papers in international journals (total impact factor: 171, ISI H-index=17, total citations >1100). In 2002, he received the Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award (Computers in Cardiology Society) e in 2007 the Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator Finalist Award (American Society of Echocardiography). He was the National Coordinator of the project “SurgAid: new methods for the diagnosis and support in repair surgery of the mitral valve based on the integration between finite element modelling and 4D echocardiographic advanced image processing, PRIN 2007”. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of several international projects in the context of bed-rest studies supported by the European Space Agency, focusing on the evaluation of changes induced by microgravity exposure on the electro-mechanical function of the heart. Since 2009, he serves as Nucleus member of the Working Group on e-Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, first as Secretary (2012-2014) and now as Vice-Chairman (2014-2016). Dal 2014, he is member of the Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging.
Invited talks
Dr Simone Borsci is Associate Professor of Human Factors and Cognitive Ergonomics at the CODE Section of the Department of Learning, Data Analytics and Technology at the University of Twente. Simone is the research coordinator for the HF-CODE team, the local representative for the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities Sector Plan Theme Human Factor in New Technology, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in HF and Medical Device at Imperial College London. Simone specialises in user experience research methods and his interdisciplinary approach bridges the gap between technological development and human-centred design. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, process, service design, user experience and human performance, with the aim of improving the usability and accessibility of (complex) interactive systems. Dr. Borsci is particularly known for his work on standardising UX evaluation methods, contributing significantly to guidelines that help designers and developers create more intuitive and usable products, and for his work on conversational agents.
Krista Hoek earned her medical degree at the Université Sorbonne in Paris, France in 2016. She pursued her medical specialization as an anesthesiologist-intensivist in Leiden, the Netherlands, specializing in education and communication within anesthesiology and intensive care. Hoek’s research focuses on the use of Virtual Reality as an educational tool to enhance communication skills. Her main research interests include the learning and implementation of therapeutic communication and team communication in crisis resource management.
Her academic interests are interdisciplinary, and she has presented at various international conferences such as the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, among others. Additionally, she has been involved in various projects funded at both the national and regional levels.
In 2021, she received a grant from Tech for Future (TFF) to collaborate with Saxion University on the development of a VR training platform for anaesthesiologist-intensivists. Furthermore, she is a member of Euro XR, the European Network for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, and serves on the Scientific Committee.
Wolter Pieters is professor of Work, Organizations and Digital Technology at the faculty of Social Sciences at Radboud University. Previously he was associate professor of Cyber Risk at Delft University of Technology, faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. He has an interdisciplinary background in computer science and philosophy of technology, and published widely on cyber risk management, information ethics, and human factors in cybersecurity. In recent years he has specialized in practices around digitalization, with a focus on responsible behaviour, including safety, (cyber)security and privacy in work environments as well as responsible use of artificial intelligence. At Radboud University, he is the contact person between the faculty and the university-wide iHub initiative on digitalization and society. On a national level, he is coordinator of the theme "The human factor in new technologies" in the sector plans of the social sciences.