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prof.dr. T.W.C. Huibers (Theo)

Honorary Professor
EEMCS-CS-HMI
Citadel H200
t.w.c.huibers@utwente.nl
+31534894054
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Expertise

  • Psychology

    • Children

  • Computer Science

    • Search Engine
    • User
    • Robot
    • Information Retrieval Systems
    • Information Retrieval
    • Design

  • Social Sciences

    • Child

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • Omroep GelderlandChairman Supervisory Board
  • AT OsborneVoorzitter Stichting Administratiekantoor AT Osborne

Publications

2025

Empowered or Lost?: How Search Tools and Social Networks Shape Teen Learning in an AI World (2025)In IIR 2025: 15th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop: Proceedings of the 15th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2025) (pp. 7-19) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. Vol-4026). CEUR. Murgia, E., Landoni, M., Huibers, T. & Pera, M. S.2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2): Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for All (2025)In SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 4146-4149). ACM Publishing. Mauro, N., Cossatin, A. G., Pera, M. S., Cena, F., Landoni, M., Huibers, T. & Murgia, E.https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730356Some Things Never Change: Overcoming Persistent Challenges in Children IR (2025)In SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 3107-3109). ACM Publishing. Pera, M. S., Huibers, T., Murgia, E. & Landoni, M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730270Preface: IR4U2 2024, the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (2025)In Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval, and 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users co-located with 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024): Glasgow, Scotland, March 24th, 2024 (pp. 78-79) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3989). CEUR. Pera, M. S., Cena, F., Huibers, T., Landoni, M., Mauro, N. & Murgia, E.Ask and You Shall Find: How Suggestions by a Conversational Robot Assist Children with Information Search (2025)In Social Robotics - 16th International Conference, ICSR + AI 2024, Proceedings (pp. 417-430) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15563 LNAI). Springer. Beelen, T., Ordelman, R., Truong, K. P., Evers, V. & Huibers, T.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_35

2024

‘Uhm... Are you sure?’ An Exploratory Study of Trust Indicators in Robot-Directed Child Speech (2024)In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2024. Article 35. Association for Computing Machinery. Velner, E., Beelen, T., Schadenberg, B., Ordelman, R., Huibers, T., Truong, K. P. & Evers, V.https://doi.org/10.1145/3652988.3673933Does conversation lead to better searches?: Investigating single-shot and multi-turn spoken searches with children (2024)International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 41. Article 100668. Beelen, T., Ordelman, R., Truong, K. P., Evers, V. & Huibers, T.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100668Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2 2024) at ECIR 2024 (2024)SIGIR forum, 58(1), 1-5. Pera, M. S., Murgia, E., Landoni, M. A., Cena, F., Mauro, N. & Huibers, T. W. C.https://doi.org/10.1145/3687273.3687284Toward Personalised Learning Experiences: Beyond Prompt Engineering (2024)In Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Inclusive Happiness, IDC 2024 (pp. 644-649). Association for Computing Machinery. Kruis, J., Pera, M. S., Napel, Z. t., Landoni, M., Murgia, E., Huibers, T. & Feskens, R.https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3659367A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive (2024)In Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V (pp. 144–151) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14612). Springer. Beelen, T., Ordelman, R., Truong, K. P., Evers, V. & Huibers, T.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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University of Twente

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