About Me
Her work is a cross-over of human-computer interaction, neuroengineering, e-health, telemedicine and ethics.
Organisations
Research
- Elderly
- Loneliness
- Malnutrition
- Happy Eating
- Accessibility
- Inclusion
- Resilience
- Empowerment
- Art as a research tool in science
- Co-creation, codesign
- Codesign at distance due to Covid-19
Publications
UT Research Information System
Google Scholar Link
Education
Affiliated Study Programmes
Bachelor
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Projects
Past:
- Veni project "Bridging the gap between ethics and neuroengineering - the case of brain-computer interfacing" (2012-2016)
- Fellowship at NIAS - KNAW after a l'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award.
- future BNCI (2010-2011)
Current Projects
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MOCIA
Maintaining Optimal Cognitive function In Ageing
The MOCIA research programme aims at being able to signal an increased risk of cognitive decline and to improve prevention by developing a personalised lifestyle intervention. MOCIA stands for ‘Maintaining Optimal Cognitive function In Ageing’. As part of a global initiative, we will be testing a multi-domain lifestyle intervention in Dutch older adults. We will additionally focus on individual differences, predictive factors, biological mechanisms, behavioural change, and e-Health technology. During the seven-year programme (2020-2027), our MOCIA research will result in a predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory multidomain lifestyle intervention for older adults at risk of cognitive decline. One of the MOCIA outcomes consists of a personalised eHealth intervention module that, with the help of feedback on validated predictive measures, can help older adults at home to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle for optimal cognitive health. The project is funded by the NWO crossover programme, which has the aim to strengthen the Dutch knowledge and innovation system with public-private partnerships. The MOCIA public-private partnership consists of various academic institutions and societal and industrial partners.
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Pharaon
Pilots for active and healthy aging
PHArA-ON’s overall objective is to make smart and active living for Europe’s ageing population a reality by creating a set of integrated, highly customizable and interoperable open platforms with advanced services, devices, and tools including IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, cloud/edge computing, smart wearables, big data, and intelligent analytics. Data privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability and openness will be key design principles to pursue through the requirements generated by PHArA-ON experts. PHArA-ON will be built upon mature existing state-of-the-art open platforms and technologies/tools provided by the partners, which will be customised and will implement cloud technologies, AI techniques and traditional algorithms for big data intelligent analytics. A user-centric approach will be followed.
Media
Assistant professor, columnist and public speaker
- Brain-Computer interfaces
- Brainhacking
- Locked-in syndrome
- e-Health
- Neurotechnology
- Ethics
In the press
- 2018 Nieuwe technologieën geven mensen met locked-insyndroom weer hoop. Trouw.
- 2018 Paul (47) is volledig verlamd, maar niet zielig: 'Je moet er het beste van maken'. RTL Nieuws.
- 2017 Computer Idee. Helemaal Zen.
- 2017 BNR Radio. Interview.
- 2016 De Volkskrant. Opiniestuk: Een spraakcomputer lost niet alle problemen op.
- 2016 Newsletter Leiden University. De Honours Academy is een proeftuin.
- 2016 Radio. NOS Met het oog op morgen.
- 2016 Mare Online. Krijgers op de Catwalk. 2016 Newsletter Leiden University. Een geluid van mensen met locked-in syndroom.
- 2015 Mare Online. Liever geen robot look.
- 2015 ANP. Vrouwen in top wetenschap nog steeds schaars.
- 2015 Brabant Dagblad. Topvrouwen slaan de gong. 2015 AD Haagse Courant. Delfste luidt beursgang van de AEX
- 2015 Trouw. Van Halem en Nijboer
- 2015 Leidsch Dagblad. Beurs voor topvrouwen
- 2015 Radio. BNR Gezond. Brain-computer interfaces is meer dan een spelletje.
- 2015 Volkskrant. Volledig verlamd en toch gelukkig
- 2012 VPRO Labyrint. De magie van het brein
- 2012 VPRO Labyrint. Napraat sessie
- 2011 Enschede FM. Interview naar aanleiding van de Veni toekenning.
- 2010 Tubantia. Grijpen met je hersenen
- 2007 Wie Handschuhe voll Sand – Leben mit der Krankheit ALS. Film by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke.
Tweets
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst - Zuidhorst
(building no. 28)
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst - Zuidhorst
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands