Master's students in HCI, AI, Cognitive (Neuro-)science and/or Design Engineering across any Dutch university or institute are welcome to apply. You will be doing a scientific internship at CWI Amsterdam with me as part of your thesis. Stipend possible if GPA ≥ 8.
APPLY: Please ensure you share your recent CV (.pdf) by email, academic transcripts, and include a brief motivation why a topic interests you, and why you (and your skillset) would be a good fit.
Please do not use any LLM to summarize a topic or my bio to chart out research directions, at least not without your further reflection and human input / edits.
Please do not use any LLM to summarize a topic or my bio to chart out research directions, at least not without your further reflection and human input / edits.
Teaching
Interaktive Systeme
Human-Computer Interaction
Wearable Computing
Current students
PhD
Karthikeya Venkatraj
CWI / TU Delft · 2025
Haptic Interactions for Accessible AR/VR in Museum Contexts
MSc
Jieying "Holly" Zhang
MSc Cognitive Science · UvA / CWI · 2025
AI Avatars in VR
MSc
Yi-Ju Chen
MSc Artificial Intelligence · CWI / Utrecht University · 2025
Deceptive AI-Assistance
MSc
Thom Bongaards
MSc Human–Computer Interaction · Utrecht University · 2025
Fairness Perceptions across Human vs. AI Moderation in Games
MSc
Win Chan
MSc HCI · KTH · 2025
Soundscape Modulation in XR
MSc
Yumin Kye
MSc Industrial Design · TU Delft · 2026
Enhancing Social Interaction in Virtual Concerts
Alumni
2025
Xin Sun
PhD
- University of Amsterdam -
From Aligned Language Models to Trusted User Interfaces: Explainable Health Intervention and Transparent Health Information Seeking
Alia ElKattan
PhD
- Visiting PhD - NYU - Internship - AI Literacy and Over-reliance
Ang (Leon) Li
- Internship - Uppsala Unversity / INRIA / NAIST - Rethinking the Sense of Agency and Embodiment Measures in Virtual Reality
Amber Kusters
- MSc Human–Computer Interaction - CWI / Utrecht University - Multimodal Visualization of AI System Disclosures
Daniel Bariche
- MSc HCI - KTH - Interaction Techniques for Audio Spaces
2024
Chenge (Matteo) Tang
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Delft -
The Dark Side of Haptics: Exploring Deceptive Haptic Design in Interfaces
Mark Kruijthoff
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Delft -
Mobile Touch: Responsive Wireless Tactile Communication for Portable Pneumatic Wearables
Shu Wei
PhD
- Visiting PhD - University of Oxford - Internship - Context-aware facial expressions for virtual humans for VR mental health therapy
Ofelya Aliyeva
- MSc Social Psychology - University of Amsterdam - Internship - Voice AI trust perception in news consumption
Zohrab Sarabian
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Eindhoven -
Integration of Olfactory Stimuli in a Virtual Reality Experience for People with Dementia
Renske Bootsma
- MSc Human-Computer Interaction - Utrecht Uni - Biomusic for Empathy Facilitation
Andreas Vogl
- BSc Media Informatics - LMU Munich - Social Audio Spaces
Lian Wu
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - TU Delft -
Characterizing Physiological Responses Toward Human and AI-generated True and Fake News
2023
Luis Quintero
PhD
- Visiting PhD - Stockholm University - Internship - User Modeling for Adaptive Virtual Reality Experiences Personalization from Behavioral and Physiological Time Series
Zhuowen Tan
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Delft -
Understanding How Trace Visualizations Influence Exploration Behaviors in VR
Karthikeya Venkatraj
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Delft -
Share Your Reality: The effects of haptic feedback on virtual avatar co-embodiment
Clint van Leeuwen
- MSc Industrial Design - TU Delft -
AffectiveAir: Exploring pneumatic affective haptics on the shoulder
Simone Ooms
- MSc Industrial Design - TU/e -
Designing and Evaluating Haptic Avatar Biosignals for Social Virtual Reality
2022
Tianyi Zhang
PhD
- CWI / TU Delft -
On Fine-grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade Off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?
Simone Ooms
- MSc Industrial Design - TU/e - Internship - Haptic stimulation of News Videos
Rayna Ney
- MSc Cognitive Science - UvA - Internship - Interoception in XR
Tong Xue
PhD
- Visiting PhD - Beijing Institute of Technology - Investigating Continuous Emotion Annotation Techniques for Video Watching in 360 HMD-based Virtual Reality
Shalvi Palande
- MSc Interaction Technology - U Twente -
Breathe with me - Designing and Evaluating Wearable Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Colocated Breathing Synchronization
Mihir Kapadia
- MSc Electrical Engineering - TU Delft -
Few-Shot emotion recognition using intelligent voice assistants and wearables: Learning from few samples of Speech and Physiological Signals
2021
Sueyoon Lee
- MSc Industrial Design Engineering - TU Delft -
Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality
Sabrina Wirjopawiroi
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - TU Delft -
Super-resolution to enhance low-resolution thermal facial expression images for facial emotion recognition
2020
Andrei Furdui
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - UvA -
Intelligent Data Augmentation for Physiological Signals using Conditional Generative Attention Models
2019
Liam Ashby
- MSc Behavioral Data Science - UvA -
The New Domain of Automotive Biometric Privacy: The Link Between Privacy Concerns and Privacy Behaviours
Xingyu Yang
- MSc Industrial Design Engineering - TU Delft -
Thermotion: An exploration of facilitating emotion perception with wearable thermal displays
2018
Shashank Rao
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - TU Delft -
DeepSleep: A sensor-agnostic approach towards modelling a sleep classification system
2016
Rieke Von Bargen
- BSc Informatics - Uni Oldenburg - Wearable Vibro-tactile Pedestrian Navigation
2013
Michael Wolbert
- MSc Information Science - UvA - Improving the Waiting Time Experience Through a Pervasive Collaborative NFC-enabled Mobile Game
Patrick Mast
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - UvA - Applying Sequence Alignment Techniques to Give Personalized Travel Suggestions
Bardia Khalesi
- MSc Artificial Intelligence - UvA - Using Social Network Analysis Techniques on Foursquare data for Location-Based Recommendations
2011
Theresa Kriese
- MSc Information Science - UvA - Measuring User Experience of User-defined Cross-domain Motion Gestures
Haska Steltenpohl
- BSc Information Science - UvA - Visualizing Route Information on Mobile Devices
2010
Sicco van Sas
- BSc Artificial Intelligence - UvA - Generating route recommendations using geotagged Flickr photos and sequence alignment
2009
Jan Overgoor, Philo van Kemenade, Bastiaan van der Weij
- BSc Artificial Intelligence - UvA - Narranotation: Mobile storytelling using a context-free grammar