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

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).

Business & Economics

# Behavior Change
# Behavioural Change

Arts & Humanities

# Embodiment
# Incongruity
# Product Design

Medicine & Life Sciences

# Systematic Reviews
# Technology
# Telemedicine

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Interaction Design (IxD)

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).

Kim, C. M. , van der Heide, E. M. , van Rompay, T. J. L. , & Ludden, G. D. S. (2024). Reimagine the ICU: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on How Environments (Can) Promote Patient Well-Being. HERD. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867231219029

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

Laschke, M., Bucher, A., Coulton, P., Hassenzahl, M., Kuijer, L., Lallemand, C., Lockton, D. , Ludden, G., & Deterding, S. (2023). Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. In CHI'23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 359 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814

Cisneros, T. V. P., Brons, A., Kröse, B., Schouten, B. , & Ludden, G. (2023). Playfulness and New Technologies in Hand Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy: Scoping Review. JMIR Serious Games, 11, Article e44904. https://doi.org/10.2196/44904

Kim, C. M. , van Rompay, T. J. L., Louwers, G., Yoon, J. K. , & Ludden, G. D. S. (2023). From a Morning Forest to a Sunset Beach: Understanding Visual Experiences and the Roles of Personal Characteristics for Designing Relaxing Digital Nature. International journal of human-computer interaction. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2285626

Wesselink, R. R. , Ludden, G. D. S., Hettinga, M., & Eggen, B. (2023). The Inviting Music Player: A Case Study on Design for Loss of Initiative in Dementia. International journal of design, 17(2), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.57698/v17i2.04

Ekhtiar, T. , Karahanoglu, A., Gouveia, R. , & Ludden, G. (2023). Goals for Goal Setting: A Scoping Review on Personal Informatics. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 2625-2641). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596087

Dekkers, T., Heirbaut, T., Schouten, S. E. , Kelders, S. M. , Beerlage-de Jong, N. , Ludden, G. D. S., Deenik, J., Bouman, Y. H. A. , & Kip, H. (2023). A Mobile Self-control Training App to Improve Self-control and Physical Activity in People With Severe Mental Illness: Protocol for 2 Single-Case Experimental Designs. JMIR research protocols, 12, Article e37727. https://doi.org/10.2196/37727

Tunc, S. , Nijboer, F. , Ludden, G. D. S. , van Velsen, L. S. , & Tabak, M. (2023). Scenario-based Co-design with Older Adults: A Design Case on Decreasing Loneliness. International journal of design, 17(2), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.57698/v17i2.06

Lee, Y. S. (2023). Expressive entities: An Exploration and Critical Reflection on Poetic Engagements with Technology. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556392

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Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

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

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