ir. R.R. Wesselink (Rik)

As a guest PhD candidate at the Interaction Design group, I'm studying how smart technology can support people with mild-moderate dementia to benefit from the positive effects of listening to music in daily life.

Next to this, I'm a teacher Industrial Design (at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences) with a focus on smart and interactive products. Experienced in user-centered design, interaction design, Arduino, ergonomics, 3D modelling and (project) coaching.

Social Sciences

# Dementia
# Interview
# Music
# Quality Of Life

Engineering & Materials Science

# Wheels

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

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

Wesselink, R. R. (2022). Access to Music for People with Dementia. In S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, C. Appert, & D. A. Shamma (Eds.), CHI'22 Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 51 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503801

Wesselink, R. R. , Ludden, G. D. S., Hettinga, M., & Eggen, B. (2022). Designing for dementia: An analysis of design principles. 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.2022.287

Wesselink, R., Hettinga, M. , Ludden, G., & Eggen, B. (2020). Unforgetting Music: Exploring the role of music in the daily lives of people with dementia living at home. In K. Christer, C. Craig, & P. Chamberlain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design4Health (Vol. 4, pp. 721-728). Sheffield Hallam University Press.

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