Citadel

T.C. Beinema PhD (Tessa)

Researcher
EEMCS-CS-HMI
Citadel H209
t.c.beinema@utwente.nl
+31534897895
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Tessa Beinema works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Media Interaction group where she investigates applications to support processes such as coaching, counselling and decision-making. She has a special interest in applying conversational agents for such purposes in settings that require a multidisciplinary approach, such as healthcare or agriculture.

She has a background in Artificial Intelligence (bachelor's and master's 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 into 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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Expertise

  • Psychology

    • Health
    • Dialogue
    • Coaching
    • Conversation
    • Behavior

  • Computer Science

    • Conversational Agent
    • User
    • Application

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Tessa Beinema works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Media Interaction group where she investigates applications to support processes such as coaching, counselling and decision-making. She has a special interest in applying conversational agents for such purposes in settings that require a multidisciplinary approach, such as healthcare or agriculture.

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. 

Publications

2024
Technology-supported shared decision-making in chronic conditions: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials, Article 108267. Vaseur, R. M. E., te Braake, E., Beinema, T., Oude Nijeweme-d'Hollosy, W. & Tabak, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2024.108267
2023
The WOOL Dialogue Platform: Enabling Interdisciplinary User-Friendly Development of Dialogue for Conversational Agents. Beinema, T., op den Akker, H., Hofs, D. & van Schooten, B.https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.14279.1What to Discuss?—A Blueprint Topic Model for Health Coaching Dialogues With Conversational Agents, 164-182. Beinema, T., Akker, H. o. d., Hermens, H. J. & Velsen, L. v.https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2041884
2022
Technology-supported shared decision-making in chronic conditions: preliminary results of a systematic review. Vaseur, R., te Braake, E., Beinema, T., d'Hollosy, W. & Tabak, M.https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2022.2987Evaluation of a virtual coaching system eHealth intervention: A mixed methods observational cohort study in the Netherlands, Article 100501. Hurmuz, M. Z. M., Jansen-Kosterink, S. M., Beinema, T., Fischer, K., op den Akker, H. & Hermens, H. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2022.100501Automatic topic selection for long-term interaction with embodied conversational agents in health coaching: A micro-randomized trial, Article 100502. Beinema, T., op den Akker, H., Hurmuz, M., Jansen-Kosterink, S. & Hermens, H.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2022.100502Een device voor leefstijlcoaching voor mensen met beperkte gezondheidsvaardigheden: Design en ervaringen, 15-15. Barneveld, N., Hietbrink, E. A. G., Middelweerd, A., Beinema, T., Tabak, M. & Laverman, G. D.
2021
Tailoring coaching conversations with virtual health coaches. University of Twente. Beinema, T.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552608A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals, 1077-1092. Snaith, M., Conway, N., Beinema, T., De Franco, D., Pease, A., Kantharaju, R., Janier, M., Huizing, G., Pelachaud, C. & op den Akker, H.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09526-0Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational SystemsIn IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 17-24). Association for Computing Machinery. Beinema, T., Davison, D., Reidsma, D., Banos, O., Bruijnes, M., Donval, B., Fides Valero, Á., Heylen, D., Hofs, D., Huizing, G., Kantharaju, R. B., Klaassen, R., Kolkmeier, J., Konsolakis, K., Pease, A., Pelachaud, C., Simonetti, D., Snaith, M., Traver, V., … op den Akker, H.https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478352

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Current projects

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).

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.

WOOL Dialogue Platform

The WOOL Dialogue Platform is a simple, powerful, open source dialogue platform for creating virtual agent conversations.

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.

Finished projects

Council of Coaches

Council of Coaches (COUCH) introduced a new virtual coaching concept based on multiple autonomous, embodied virtual coaches, which form a personal council that fulfills the needs of older adults in an integrated way. Each Coach has their own expertise, personality and style of coaching; they might not always agree with each other, but they all share a single goal: to support you across every aspect of well-being, including physical, social, cognitive and mental support.

Address

University of Twente

Citadel (building no. 09), room H209
Hallenweg 15
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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