Horst Complex

F. Toso PhD (Francesca)

Assistant Professor
ET-DPM-HCD
Horst Complex W235
f.toso@utwente.nl
+31534897855
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Dr. Francesca Toso is Assistant Professor in Stakeholder engagement and Co-Design at the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente.

Formed as industrial designer, she specialized in technologies for healthcare, designing and evaluating products in real-life environment by engaging different stakeholders in the process. 

She built her research profile with study and research experiences at Iuav University of Venice, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, ITRI - Industrial Technology Research Institute and Eindhoven University of Technology.

She has been working as local project manager on different European project involving international and multidisciplinary consortia, such as Interreg IT-AT AGEDESIGN, Interreg NWE Certification-D and MSC-DN HOMEDEM.

In parallel of the research activity, she engaged on teaching activities at Iuav University of Venice, San Raffaele Telematic University and Eindhoven University of Technology.

With a strong attitude for transdisciplinary research, her research interests space between embodied interaction for vulnerable people, personalized care and inclusivity (in terms of gender, culture, neurodiversity and invisible disabilities).

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Design
    • Evaluation
    • Communication
    • Daily Experience
    • Robotics
    • Social Communication

  • Psychology

    • Tools

  • Social Sciences

    • Students

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Publications

2023

Á la recherche du santé perdue. Exploring tech-based solutions through co-creation to support quality of life with an invisible disability (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Toso, F., Bloem, E., Star, M., Reinink, G. & Mol, L.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10058558Reflecting on Living Labs as Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Networks to Evaluate Technological Products for People Living with Dementia (2023)International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(3). Article 1673. Toso, F., Brankaert, R., Hendriks, N., Lenaerts, L. & Wilkinson, A.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031673Do Not Believe the Hype: Critically discussing the role and pedagogical implication of generative AI in Human-Centred and Transdisciplinary Design Education (2023)In The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers (Accepted/In press). Toso, F., Zaga, C., den Haan, R.-J. & Aizenberg, E.https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2023.035Practice what you preach: co-designing a lecture on co-design (2023)In The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers (Accepted/In press). Toso, F.https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2024.015

2022

LivingMoments: Bespoke Social Communication for People living with Dementia and their Relatives (2022)In CHI 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 515. Association for Computing Machinery. Thoolen, M., Toso, F., Peek, S. T. M., Lu, Y. & Brankaert, R.https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517430

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W235
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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