About Me
Tessa Beinema works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Media Interaction group.
She has a background in Artificial Intelligence (bachelors and masters from Radboud University) with a specialization in Web and Language Interaction. After graduation, Tessa started working as a junior researcher at Roessingh Research and Development, while also being an external PhD candidate at the University of Twente. In the Horizon 2020 Council of Coaches project (2017-2020), she lead the work package on 'coaching strategies and knowledge base'. In her PhD work, she investigated how knowledge of behaviour change and coaching can practically be incorporated in an artificially intelligent component for selecting relevant (tailored) conversational topics in coaching conversations between users and (embodied) conversational agents. She also contributed to the two open-source projects that resulted from Council of Coaches: the WOOL Dialogue Platform and the Agents United Platform.
Once the Council of Coaches project was completed, Tessa joined the Personalized eHealth Technology (PeHT) programme at the University of Twente, where she finished her PhD and her tasks included the coordination of the Agents United Alliance, contributing to the development of a new telemonitoring platform, and being a coordinator for the VNSU Digital Society Health & Well-being programme line.
At the Human-Media Interaction group she works on the virtual assistant within the ZonMw eCG Family Clinic project. Between March 2022 and September 2023 she worked at Innovation Sprint on virtual coaching and the WOOL Dialogue Platform in the context of European projects such as iHelp and RE-SAMPLE. In November 2023, she joined the UT full-time, continuing her work on the eCG project and joining the NWO Synergia project.
WORK EXPERIENCE
03.2022 - current Postdoctoral Researcher, Human-Media Interaction group
03.2022 - 09.2023 Researcher, Innovation Sprint
09.2020 - 03.2022 Researcher, Biomedical Signals and Systems group, Personalized eHealth Technology (PeHT) research program
09.2017 - 12.2021 PhD Candidate, Biomedical Signals and Systems group, University of Twente
09.2017 - 09.2020 Junior Researcher, eHealth group, Roessingh Research and Development
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Affiliated Study Programmes
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Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Current Projects
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eCG Family Clinic
The electronic Cardiovascular Genetic family clinic to facilitate genetic screening in family members
The ZonMw eCG Family Clinic project aims to develop a digital family clinic that will support family members of people with a hereditary cardiac condition (HCM or DCM) in making an informed choice about potentially undergoing a DNA test.
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Agents United
The Agents United Alliance is a consortium of universities and organisations that develops, maintains and promotes an open platform of multi-agent conversational systems: The Agents United Platform.
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Synergia
SYstem change for New Ecology-based and Resource efficient Growth with high tech In Agriculture
SYNERGIA is a 7-year Dutch NWO-funded program which aims to develop and integrate fundamental knowledge from the biological, technical, and social sciences for the next generation of sustainable agricultural systems, based on the new concept of “technology-4-ecology-based farming” (T4E-farming).
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WOOL Dialogue Platform
The WOOL Dialogue Platform is a simple, powerful, open source dialogue platform for creating virtual agent conversations.
Finished Projects
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Citadel
(building no. 09), room H209
Hallenweg 15
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Citadel
H209
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
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