Horst Complex

prof.dr.ir. G.D.S. Ludden (Geke)

Full Professor
ET-DPM-IxD
Horst Complex W243
g.d.s.ludden@utwente.nl
+31534892920
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I am full professor and head of the Interaction Design chair at the Department of Design, Production and Management. I am also a fellow of the DesignLab.

I am editor of the Journal of Design Research and co-editor of the book 'Design for Behaviour Change' published by Ashgate. I study how the design of products and services influences people’s behaviour and motivation with a specific interest in how products and services can support healthy behaviour and in how technology (interactive devices and wearables) can engage people in therapy at home.

In this video made by CLICKNL I explain more about my work and motivation (in Dutch).

In this lecture for Universiteit van Nederland I explain how we design technology that influences healthy behaviour (in Dutch).

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Design
    • Contexts
    • User
    • Innovations

  • Psychology

    • Behavior
    • Wellbeing
    • Research
    • Health

Organisations

Design influences in many ways and can offer innovative and effective ways to address the myriad of challenges that our society currently faces. Most of the projects I contribute to are aimed at supporting people to make positive changes in their physical or mental health: Design for Healthy behaviour. The different topics within this domain relate to the often used categorisation in healthcare of primary prevention (health promotion), secondary prevention (treatment) and tertiary prevention (management of disease).  

Publications

2024

Designing Access to Music for People with Dementia (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Wesselink, R. R.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563338From a Morning Forest to a Sunset Beach: Understanding Visual Experiences and the Roles of Personal Characteristics for Designing Relaxing Digital Nature (2024)International journal of human-computer interaction, 40(24), 8535-8552. Kim, C., van Rompay, T. J. L., Louwers, G., Yoon, J. K. & Ludden, G. D. S.https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2285626Towards healing through digital nature in critical care and beyond: An integrated approach to design nature-based aesthetic experiences to promote delirium prevention and patient wellbeing (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Kim, C. M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563017Designerly ways of caring (2024)[Book/Report › Inaugural speech]. University of Twente. Ludden, G. D. S.Compassionate technology, value-based design for (e-)mental health (2024)In Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing . Ludden, G., Noordzij, M., Lusi, B., Lotringen, C. v. & Klaassen, R.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318262-20Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing: Co-Design, Interventions and Policy (2024)[Book/Report › Book editing]. Routledge. Niedderer, K., Ludden, G., Dening, T. & Holthoff-Detto, V.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318262Outside In: Creating Digital Nature Tailored to the Needs of Intensive Care Unit Patients (2024)In CHI 2024 - Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. Article 260. Association for Computing Machinery. Mi Kim, C., Van Rompay, T. & Ludden, G.https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650753Reimagine the ICU: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on How Environments (Can) Promote Patient Well-Being (2024)HERD, 17(2), 97-114. Kim, C. M., van der Heide, E. M., van Rompay, T. J. L. & Ludden, G. D. S.https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867231219029Empowering tomorrow's industrial design engineers: A curriculum reform journey at the University of Twente's Faculty of Engineering Technology (2024)In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI 2024. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. de Boer, W. F., Massa, J., Ludden, G. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14256842

2023

Blueprints: Systematizing Behavior Change Designs-The Case of Social Comparison Theory (2023)ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(1). Article 11. de Vries, R. A. J., Lemke, M. & Ludden, G. D. S.https://doi.org/10.1145/3617364

Research profiles

My research is organised in larger and smaller projects many of which are collaborations with researchers from other disciplines (health, computer science, etc) and with industry and public partners (including Philips VitalMinds, Zorggroep St Maarten, Dimence).

Find all projects on the website of the Interaction Design group

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W243
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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