Dr. Steven Houben

I work in 'Human-Computer Interaction' and 'Physical Computing', addressing questions on the principles, technologies, and interaction techniques of (i) collaborative computing and (ii) human-data/AI interaction. My publications are on Google Scholar, dblp, and ACM DL. I currently work on:

1. Collaborative augmented device ecologies: designing and studying new interaction techniques and principles for intelligent AI-enabled device ecologies that support new forms of collaboration and nomadic work.
2. New forms of human-AI interaction: designing and studying new tangible and physical interaction paradigms and data embodiments (physicalization) for human-data and human-AI interaction.

Current Research Projects:

• CurateAI: exploring the basic principles and interaction mechanisms of curation-centric human-AI collaboration
• Treat: exploring human-data interaction concepts for personalized edge AI recommender systems in healthcare contexts.
• PhysicaliseAI: studying new human-AI interaction mechanisms for NLP-driven collocated collaborative sensemaking and decisionmaking.
  
• POWEr FITTing: building new situated human-data interaction tools, visualizations and analytics for the future of work.
• Blended Realities: exploring the basic principles of physicalization and augmented reality for collaborative sensemaking and decisionmaking.

News and Updates:

⌁ I will give a keynote at the 2025 CHI NL Community event

⌁ Full paper on 'Athletes in Cardiac Rehabilitation' accepted to JMIR
⌁ Full paper on 'Enhance Rehabilitation Outcome' accepted to PPA

⌁ Full paper on 'Design with Ambiguity' accepted to CHI'25

⌁ Short paper on 'CrowdCollab' accepted to TEI'25

⌁ I have been awarded a personal NWO Vidi grant 

⌁ Full paper on 'On-Body Medical Devices' accepted to Bioengineering
⌁ Inno4Health project was awarded an ITEA Awards of Excellence 2024.

⌁ Full Paper on 'Sensemaking in Data-Driven Design' accepted to ACM ToCHI.

⌁ Full Paper on 'Holistic Telemonitoring' accepted to EAI PervasiveHealth'24
⌁ Paper Chair & Associate Editor for ACM PACMHCI for ISS'24

⌁ Full paper accepted to ACM CHI'24

⌁ I was promoted to Associate Professor in Human-Data Interaction

⌁ Full paper on 'Sensor Bricks' accepted to ACM TEI'24
⌁ Full paper on 'Proxemics in Handheld AR' accepted to ACM ISS'23

⌁ Full paper on 'Tangible Office Vitality' accepted to BIT journal.

⌁ Associate Editor for special issues on physicalization for BIT journal.
⌁ Associate Chair (AC) for ACM UIST'23, ACM CHI'24, ACM TEI'24

I am Associate Professor in Human-Data Interaction in the Department of Industrial Design and the Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI) at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).  I direct the 'Data Interaction Lab' and head a research group working on human-data interaction.