Dr. Steven Houben

Research — My research is on Tangible and Physical Computing that blends and integrates data, interactions, and interfaces into real-world applications on digital health, education, industry 4.0, and knowledge work. Please find a selection of my publications and a full list on Google Scholar, dblp, and ACM DL. I work on:

(1) Collaborative augmented device ecologies: 'design for the future of work' where devices are merged into larger intelligent ecologies that support collaboration, nomadic work, and new emerging work practices (see [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]).

(2) Physicalizing human-data interaction: 'support from sensor to physicalisation' and study new co-creation processes, concepts, interaction paradigms, and data embodiments for non-expert human-data/AI interaction (see [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]).

Teaching — I teach and direct university-level courses on design engineering, human-computer interaction, and physical computing. My teaching interest is in courses that combine design, HCI, and computer science. I hold a PGCert for 'Academic Practice' and am a 'Fellow of the Higher-Education Academy (HEA)'.

News and Updates:

⌁ Associate Chair (AC) for ACM UIST'23

⌁ Kim Sauvé and Dominic Potts successfully defended their PhDs!

⌁ 1 full paper, 1 workshop, 1 LBW, and 3 workshop papers accepted to ACM CHI'23

⌁ New PhD student Olaf Adan joined my team!

⌁ Full paper on 'Collocated Collaborative AR' accepted to ACM MobileHCI'22

⌁ Two papers on 'Sensorbadge' and 'Ecorbis' accepted to ACM DIS'22

⌁ "From Data to Physical Artifact" paper accepted to Interactions Magazine.

⌁ I am recruiting a new PhD student in Physical Human-AI Interaction

⌁ Awarded Starter Grant from Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute
⌁ Full paper on 'Contextualising/labeling Physicalisations' accepted to ACM CHI'22
⌁ Full paper on 'Physecology' accepted to ACM TOCHI

⌁ Full paper on 'Ambidots' accepted to ACM OzCHI'21
⌁ Pictorial paper on 'TangibleTouch' accepted to ACM TEI'22