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

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).

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).

Lotringen, C. V., Lusi, B. , Westerhof, G. J. , Ludden, G. D. S. , Kip, H. , Kelders, S. M. , & Noordzij, M. L. (2023). The Role of Compassionate Technology in Blended and Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Scoping Review. JMIR mental health, 10, [e42403]. https://doi.org/10.2196/42403

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

Schouten, S. , Kip, H., Dekkers, T., Deenik, J. , Beerlage - de Jong, N. , Ludden, G. D. S. , & Kelders, S. M. (2022). Best-practices for co-design processes involving people with severe mental illness for eMental health interventions: a qualitative multi-method approach. Design for Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2145814

Kim, C. M. , van Rompay, T. J. L. , van der Heide, E. M. , Verkerke, G. J. , & Ludden, G. D. S. (2022). From traumatic to therapeutic: Investigating the potential for the intensive care environment to enhance patients’ experiences and recovery from the perspective of healthcare professionals. 87-89. Abstract from 7th International Triennial Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS 2022, Delft, Netherlands.

Velsen, L. V. , Ludden, G. , & Grünloh, C. (2022). The Limitations of User-and Human-Centered Design in an eHealth Context and How to Move Beyond Them. Journal of medical internet research, 24(10), [e37341]. https://doi.org/10.2196/37341

Smits, M. , Ludden, G. D. S. , Verbeek, P-P., & Goor, H. V. (2022). How Digital Therapeutics Are Urging the Need for a Paradigm Shift: From Evidence-Based Health Care to Evidence-Based Well-being. Interactive Journal of Medical Research, 11(2), [e39323]. https://doi.org/10.2196/39323

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

Smits, M. , Ludden, G. D. S. , Verbeek, P. P., & van Goor, H. (2022). Responsible design and assessment of a SARS-CoV virtual reality rehabilitation programme: guidance ethics in context. Journal of responsible innovation, 9(3), 344-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2022.2076986

Lusi, B. , Ludden, G. D. S. , Klaassen, R. , Noordzij, M. L. , & van Lotringen, C. M. (2022). Embodiments of compassion in caring and noncaring products: exploring design for values with a multi-sensory approach. In D. Lockton, S. Lenzi, A. Oak, P. Hekkert, J. Sádaba, & P. Lloyd (Eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.288

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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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