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

Associate Professor

About Me

I am (adjunct) 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

Business & Economics
Behavior Change
Behavioural Change
Arts & Humanities
Embodiment
Incongruity
Product Design
Medicine & Life Sciences
Systematic Reviews
Technology
Telemedicine

Research

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

Recent
Bocanegra, M., Lemke, M. , de Vries, R. , & Ludden, G. (2022). Mattpod: A Design Proposal for a Multi-Sensory Solo Dining Experience. In R. Tumuluri, N. Sebe, G. Pingali, D. B. Jayagopi, A. Dhall, R. Singh, L. Anthony, & A. A. Salah (Eds.), ICMI '22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 1-6). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536220.3563688
Bocanegra, M., Lemke, M. , De Vries, R. A. J. , & Ludden, G. D. S. (2022). Commensality or Reverie in Eating? Exploring the Solo Dining Experience. In R. Tumuluri, N. Sebe, G. Pingali, D. B. Jayagopi, A. Dhall, R. Singh, L. Anthony, & A. A. Salah (Eds.), ICMI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 25-35). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556577
Ahmadpour, N. , Ludden, G., Peters, D., & Vold, K. (2022). Editorial: Responsible Digital Health. Frontiers in Digital Health, 3, [841477]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.841477

UT Research Information System

Google Scholar Link

Projects

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


Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W237
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex  W237
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands