About Me
Pia de Boer is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Science. Her research interests focus on (1) determining what skills are necessary to use Internet-of-Things beneficially and on (2) measuring those skills among the general user population from an individual perspective. This should provide a better understanding of the impact of IoT.
Expertise
Engineering & Materials Science
# Automation
# Internet Of Things
Social Sciences
# Automation
# Internet
# Performance
Medicine & Life Sciences
# Fitness Trackers
# Internet Of Things
# Task Performance And Analysis
Research
The PhD project is part of a project called 'Any Thing for Anyone? Digital inequality and the Internet-of-Things', which is funded by the NWO (VIDI Scheme). The aim of this project is to investigate inequalities in IoT skills among the general user population.
Publications
Recent
de Boer, P. S. (2023).
The IoT, easy as anything? Uncovering the importance of digital skills for the Internet of Things. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555951
Boer, P. S. D.
, Deursen, A. J. A. M. V.
, & Rompay, T. J. L. V. (2023).
Health on the move—can we keep up? Activity tracker performance test to measure data and strategic skills.
International journal of human-computer interaction,
39(17), 3377-3387.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2097367
de Boer, P. S.
, van Deursen, A. J. A. M.
, & van Rompay, T. J. L. (2022).
The lights are on, but no one’s home: A performance test to measure digital skills to use IoT home automation.
New Media and Society, 1-32. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221133737
van Deursen, A. J. A. M.
, van der Zeeuw, A.
, de Boer, P.
, Jansen, G.
, & van Rompay, T. (2022).
Development and validation of the Internet of Things Skills Scale (IoTSS).
Information, communication and society,
25(13), 1883-1899.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1900320
van Deursen, A. J. A. M.
, van der Zeeuw, A.
, de Boer, P.
, Jansen, G.
, & van Rompay, T. (2021).
Digital inequalities in the Internet of Things: differences in attitudes, material access, skills, and usage.
Information, communication and society,
24(2), 258-276.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1646777
de Boer, P. S.
, van Deursen, A. J. A. M.
, & van Rompay, T. J. L. (2020).
Internet-of-Things Skills Among the General Population: Task-Based Performance Test Using Activity Trackers.
JMIR human factors,
7(4), Article e22532.
https://doi.org/10.2196/22532
de Boer, P. S.
, van Deursen, A. J. A. M.
, & van Rompay, T. J. L. (2019).
Accepting the Internet-of-Things in our homes: The role of user skills.
Telematics and informatics,
36, 147-156.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.12.004
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands