I am the advisor of

• Bram van Deurzen (co-advisor = prof. dr. Raf Ramakers)

I am the co-advisor of

• Tom Veuskens (advisor = prof. dr. Raf Ramakers)
• Mannu Lambrichts (advisor = prof. dr. Raf Ramakers)
• Jeroen Ceyssens (advisor = prof. dr. Fabian Di Fiore)

Past

As advisor:

• dr. Sven Coppers (2021, co-advisors = prof. dr. Davy Vanacken, prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Intelligibility and Control for Context-Aware IoT Applications.
• dr. Kashyap Todi (2018, co-advisor = prof. dr. Andrew Vande Moere): Improving and Facilitating the Placement of Interactive Elements on User Interfaces.
• prof. dr. Raf Ramakers (2016, co-advisor = prof. dr. Johannes Schöning): End-User Control over Physical User-Interfaces: From Digital Fabrication to Real-Time Adaptability.
• dr. Geert Vanderhulst (2010, co-advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Development and Deployment of Interactive Pervasive Applications for Ambient Intelligent Environments.
• dr. Joël Vogt (2013, advised together with prof. dr. Andreas Meier): Requirements Elicitation and System Specification of Assistive Systems for People with Mild Dementia.
• dr. Sean Chiew Seng Tan (2014, co-advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Enabling Empathic Communication in Ubiquitous Computing Environments to Improve Interaction between People.

As co-advisor:

• dr. Eva Geurts (2019, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Exploring Mobile Interactive Applications to Increase Patient Motivation in Rehabilitation
• dr. Steven Nagels (2019, advisor = prof. dr. Wim Deferme, other co-advisor = prof. dr. Ronald Thoelen): Electronic Devices which stretch like Rubber Bands: A holistic Approach to Materials and Fabrication Methods for Stretchable Electronics.
• dr. Supraja Sankaran (2018, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx, second co-advisor = prof. dr. Paul Dendale): HeartHab: From Persuasion to Self-management in Cardiac Tele-rehabilitation.
• dr. Marisela Gutierrez Lopez (2018, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx, second co-advisor = prof. dr. Mieke Haesen): Techniques and Artefacts for Documenting Design Rationale Among Multidisciplinary Design Teams.
• dr. Fredy Cuenca Lucero (2016, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Towards a composite event-based language for describing multimodal interactions.
• prof. dr. Jo Vermeulen (2014, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Designing for Intelligibility and Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environments — Professor at Aarhus University
• dr. Davy Vanacken (2012, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Touch-based interaction and collaboration in walk-up-and-use and multi-user environments. — post-doc researcher at Hasselt University
• dr. Petr Aksenov (2012, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): The Variability of Location Context in Pervasive Environments: Modelling, Representation and Visualisation. — post-doc in the Urban Science and Systems group at the TU/e
• dr. Nasim Mahmud (2012, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Exploiting context-awareness and Social Interaction to Provide Help in Large-scale Environments. — Post-doc researcher in the Dynamics Lab at the University College Dublin.
• dr. Mieke Haesen (2011, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): User-Centered Process Framework and Techniques to Support the Realization of Interactive Systems by Multi-Disciplinary Teams. — IOF post-doc researcher at Hasselt University
• dr. Jan Meskens (2011, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Tool Support for Designing, Managing and Optimizing Multi-Device User Interfaces. — Sievax

As external co-advisor:

• dr. Daniel Schreiber (2011, TU Darmstadt, advisor = prof. dr. Max Mülhaüser): Post-desktop Interaction for Web Applications
• dr.-ing. Stefan Hennig (2012, TUDresden, advisor = prof. dr. techn. Klaus Janschek): Design of Sustainable Solutions for Process Visualization in Industrial Automation with Model-Driven Software Development

PhD Juries

• dr. Danny Leen (2021, KULeuven, advisor = dr. Veerle Van der Sluys, co-advisor = dr. Marc Lambaerts): Unitless Fabrication: Measurement in Digital Fabrication.
• dr. Elodie Bouzekri (2021, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, advisor = prof. dr. Philippe Palanque): Notation et Processus outillé pour la Description, l’Analyse et la Compréhension de l’Automatisation dans les Systèmes de Commande et Contrôle.
• dr. Katrien Dreessen (2020, KULeuven, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Slegers): Long-term participation in design processes: exploring the engagement of non-expert users in open spaces.
• dr. Nicole Ke-Chen Pong (2020, Université de Lille, advisor = prof. dr. Stéphane Huot): Interacting with Signifier-less Designs — the case of swhidgets.
• dr. Boris Bogaerts (2019, Universiteit Antwerpen, advisor = prof. dr. Rudi Penne): A general approach to robot path planning for optical inspections. (defense presentation was done completely in VR! Available on YouTube)
• dr. Pieter Robyns (2019, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Wim Lamotte, co-advisor = prof. dr. Peter Quax): Explicit and Implicit Information Leakage in Wireless Communication.
• dr. Eslam Nofal (2019, KULeuven, advisor = prof. dr. Andrew Vande Moere): Phygital Heritage: Communicating Built Heritage Information through the Integration of Digital Technology into Physical Reality.
• dr. Reinout Roels (2019, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, advisor = prof. dr. Beat Signer): MindXpres: Conceptual and Technical Foundations for Next Generation Presentation Solutions.
• dr. Sandra Trullemans (2018, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, advisor = prof. dr. Beat Signer): Enabling and Informing the Design of Cross-Media Personal Information Management Solutions.
• dr. Pavel Andreevich Samsonov (2017, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Frank Van Reeth, co-advisors = prof. dr. Johannes Schöning, prof. dr. Beat Signer): Improving Interactions with Spatial Context-aware Services.
• dr. Jan Schneider Barnes (2017, Open Universiteit Heerlen, advisor = prof. dr. Marcus Specht, co-advisors = prof. dr. Peter van Rosmalen, dr. Dirk Börner) : Sensor-based Learning Support.
• dr. Martin Cronel (2017, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, advisor = prof. dr. Philippe Palanque) : Une approche pour l’ingénierie des systèmes interactifs critiques multimodaux et multi-utilisateurs : Application à la Prochaine Génération de Cockpit d’Aéronefs.
• dr. Hanaë Rateau (2017, Université de Lille 1, advisor = prof. dr. Laurent Grisoni) : Exploring Interactive Sub-spaces for Gestural Midair Interaction.
• dr. Frederik De Bleser (2016, University of Antwerp, advisor = prof. dr. Serge Demeyer) : The Impact of Generative Design.
• dr. Christian Weichel (2015, Lancaster University, advisor = prof. dr. Hans Gellersen, co-advisor = prof. dr. Jason Alexander) : Mixed Physical and Virtual Design Environments for Digital Fabrication.
• dr. William Delamare (2015, Université Joseph Fourier, advisors = prof. dr. Laurence Nigay, prof. dr. Céline Coutrix) : Interaction à Distance en Environnement Physique Augmenté.
• dr. Jonathan Aceituno (2015, Université de Lille 1, advisor = prof. dr. Nicolas Roussel ) : Directness and Expressiveness on the Desktop: Increasing Granularity, Extent, and Dimensionality
• dr. Sylvain Degrandsart (2014, Universiteit Antwerpen, advisor = prof. dr. Serge Demeyer): Model-Driven Engineering of Context-aware Interactive Applications.
• dr. Davide Spanio Lucio (2013, University of Pisa, advisors = prof. dr. Antonio Cisternino, prof. dr. Fabio Paternò) : A Model-Based Approach for Gesture Interfaces.
• dr. Philip Leroux (2012, UGent, advisors = prof. dr. Filip De Turck, prof. dr. Bart DHoedt) : Optimization and Distribution of Interactive Personalized Services.
• dr. Anastasiia Besnozyk (2012, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx, co-advisor = prof. dr. Wim Lamotte) : An Experimental Perspective on Factors Influencing Collaborative user Experience in Virtual Environments and Games.
• dr. Tom Cuypers (2012, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Philippe Bekaert) : A Geometric Optics Approach to Simulating Light Wave Phenomena in Computer Graphics.
• dr. Johanna Octavia Renna Hariandja (2011, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Karin Coninx): Adaptivity in Virtual Environments: Enhancing User Interaction and Accommodating User Diversity.
• dr. Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar (2011, KULeuven, advisor = prof. dr. Yolande Berbers) : Context-based Communication in Large Scale Vehicular Networks.
• dr. Stijn Verstichel (2011, UGent, advisors = prof. dr. Bart DHoedt, prof. dr. Filip De Turck) : Distributed Reasoning for Context-Aware Services.
• dr. Jean-François Ladry (2010, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, advisor = prof. dr. Philippe Palanque): Une notation et un processus outillé pour le développement de systèmes interactifs multimodaux critiques
• dr. Sofie Van Hoecke (2009, UGent, advisors = prof. dr. Bart DHoedt, prof. dr. Filip De Turck): Efficient Service Management in Healthcare.
• dr.-ing. Marco Blumendorf (2009, TUBerlin, advisor = prof. dr. dr. Sahin Albayrak): Multimodal Interaction in Smart Environments: A Model-based Runtime System for Ubiquitous User Interfaces.
• dr. Wouter Gelade (2009, UHasselt, advisor = prof. dr. Frank Neven): Foundations of XML: Regular Expressions Revisited.

Interns

• Gustavo Rovelo from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Winter 2012-2013, Summer 2013
• dr. Joël Vogt from Fribourg University, Spring 2010, Summer 2011
• dr.-ing. Stefan Hennig from TU Dresden, Winter 2010-2011