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Broek, Egon
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
 
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Egon L. van den Broek obtained his MSc (2001) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and PhD (2005) in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), and hopes to obtain a second PhD (2011) in affective signal processing. He has held several positions at the Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), both in The Netherlands. Currently, he is an assistant professor in Human Media Interaction at the University of Twente and an assistant professor in Affective Computing at the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, both in The Netherlands. He has taught, coordinated, and developed courses and educational tracks, and has guided almost 50 students at all educational levels.

Apart from his academic career, he is a consultant for Philips Research Europe (Eindhoven, NL), a senior statistician at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and a consultant at the Human-Centered Computing Consultancy (Vienna). In addition, he has been an external expert for The British Academy, Expertises Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), and the Belgium agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IST). He is a member of ACM, EURASIP, HUMAINE, IAPR, IEEE, and the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society.

Van den Broek has been involved in various national and EU projects over the years. These also reflect his broad interest in AI, man-machine interaction, and research and analysis methods. His main research topics are affective computing and cognitive computer vision. He has (co-)developed a range of systems. These include the CBIR system http://www.m4art.org, an interactive online texture classification system, real-time emotion sensing devices, multimedia and virtual reality demonstrators, and an online scientific user interface testing platform.

He has authored over 130 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. He holds four patent applications, and has received multiple awards. His work has been discussed in dozens of popular press appearances. He is also a frequently invited speaker at conferences. He has been a guest editor, reviewer, chair, and program committee member of various conferences and journals. Additionally, he is the founding editor-in-chief of the Pan Stanford Series in Artificial Intelligence, to be launched in 2011-2012. He has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2005.

 
 
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  Multimodal interaction with W3C standards: toward natural user interfaces to everything
Dahl D., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 422 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319428-14-7)

With computing machinery (for example, the Internet of Things [1] and virtual reality [2]) rapidly penetrating the consumer market, human-computer interaction (HCI) is rapidly becoming an outdated paradigm and human-media interaction o...

Jan 2 2018  
  Human activity recognition: using wearable sensors and smartphones
Labrador M., Lara Yejas O., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2014. 207 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-466588-27-1)

The decline in both the price and size of sensors, and the fact that they can be embedded in various wearables (for example, clothes, jewelry, and furniture), has made them appealing for many purposes, including human activity recognit...

May 27 2014  
  Quantifying the user experience: practical statistics for user research
Sauro J., Lewis J., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2012. 312 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123849-68-7)

Before I started to read this book, I searched for the authors’ definition of user experience (UX). To my surprise, I did not find one. Of course, I may have missed it; however, if it is really missing, then this is definitel...

Mar 19 2013  
  Learning how to match fresco fragments
Funkhouser T., Shin H., Toler-Franklin C., Castañeda A., Brown B., Dobkin D., Rusinkiewicz S., Weyrich T. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 4(2): 1-13, 2011.  Type: Article

This paper was presented at Eurographics 2011. Being among the conference’s best papers, it was revised and republished in this ACM journal. In general, the authors present their approach as new; however, while this is not th...

Mar 8 2012  
  A practitioner’s guide to resampling for data analysis, data mining, and modeling
Good P., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. 224 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-439855-50-8)

With sufficient books on data mining and more than enough books on statistics on my shelf, I found myself drawn by the “practitioner’s guide” aspect of this book’s title. Compact as the book is, ...

Feb 28 2012  
   Designing for the invisible: user-centered design of infrastructure awareness systems
Hincapié-Ramos J., Tabard A., Bardram J.  DIS 2010 (Proc. of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Aarhus, Denmark, Aug 16-20, 2010) 302-305, 2010.  Type: Proceedings

Aiming to develop an infrastructure awareness system, Hincapié-Ramos, Tabard, and Bardram apply card sorting for assessing users’ ideas on infrastructures. They relate awareness model cards (AMC)--their meth...

Dec 6 2010  
   Open-ended objects: a tool for brainstorming
Cruz V., Gaudron N.  DIS 2010 (Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Aarhus, Denmark, Aug 16-20, 2010) 85-88, 2010.  Type: Proceedings

Cruz and Gaudron sketch the concept of open-ended objects that are positioned as facilitating brainstorming workshops for human-computer interaction (HCI) purposes....

Nov 5 2010  
  Understanding barriers to online experience for people with physical and sensory disabilities using discursive social psychology
Bowker N. Universal Access in the Information Society 9(2): 121-136, 2010.  Type: Article

A significant number of Internet users have physical or sensory disabilities. Work that addresses this group of users, as Bowker’s does, is rare. Bowker founded her work on philosophical, psychological, and linguistic theorie...

Sep 21 2010  
   Handbook of texture analysis
Mirmehdi M., Xie X., Suri J., IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, London, UK, 2009. 413 pp.  Type: Book (9781848161153)

Texture is still not fully understood. Handbooks on both human and machine vision mention texture as an important characteristic of perceptual processes, for a range of applications. Moreover, a vast number of articles on texture, appr...

Jun 1 2010  
  Decision dependability and its application to identity management
Kalka N., Bartlow N., Cukic B.  CSIIRW 2009 (Proceedings of the 5th Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research, Oak Ridge, TN, Apr 13-15, 2009) 2009.  Type: Proceedings

Kalka, Bartlow, and Cukic adopt the work of Kryszczuk and Drygajlo on unimodal and bimodal biometric classification [1], and present a rather straightforward extension to multimodal classification....

Dec 8 2009  
 
 
 
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