F. Toso PhD (Francesca)

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).

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Human Centered Design (HCD)

Toso, F. , Zaga, C. , den Haan, R.-J. , & Aizenberg, E. (Accepted/In press). Do Not Believe the Hype: Critically discussing the role and pedagogical implication of generative AI in Human-Centred and Transdisciplinary Design Education. In D. Jones, N. Borekci, V. Clemente, J. Corazzo, N. Lotz, L. Merete Nielsen, & L.-A. Noel (Eds.), The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2023.035

Toso, F. (Accepted/In press). Practice what you preach: co-designing a lecture on co-design. In D. Jones, N. A. G. Z. Börekçi, V. Clemente, J. Corazzo, N. Lotz, L. M. Nielsen, & L.-A. Noel (Eds.), The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers http://10.21606/drslxd.2023.015

Toso, F., Brankaert, R., Hendriks, N., Lenaerts, L., & Wilkinson, A. (2023). Reflecting on Living Labs as Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Networks to Evaluate Technological Products for People Living with Dementia. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(3), Article 1673. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031673

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

Frausin, M. , & Toso, F. (2021). Progettare contaminazioni: la ricerca in design come trait d'union tra le discipline applicate alla cura dell'uomo. In FRID 2019 – La doppia prospettiva della ricerca in Design (pp. 299 - 310). Bembo Officina Editoriale. https://bemboedizioni.it/main/scheda.aspx?id=17

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Bachelor

Industrial Design Engineering

Master

Industrial Design Engineering

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