Bram Lievens
Researcher
Bram Lievens holds a bachelor degree in social and cultural work and a master degree in communication science. After a brief period of working for various local authorities he joined the iMinds-SMIT in 2002 as a researcher.
As a senior researcher, Bram is currently coordinating the user reseach unit. His main expertise is within the domain of user centered design and Living Labs, with a focus on mobile applications in a smart city environment. Bram is active in and supervising various research projects in this area.
Bram also acts as a Living Lab methodologist within iMinds develop and test department, iLab.o. Key activities here are focussed on the set-up of Living Labs and related projects as catalysators for new product and service innovation.
As a senior researcher, Bram is currently coordinating the user reseach unit. His main expertise is within the domain of user centered design and Living Labs, with a focus on mobile applications in a smart city environment. Bram is active in and supervising various research projects in this area.
Bram also acts as a Living Lab methodologist within iMinds develop and test department, iLab.o. Key activities here are focussed on the set-up of Living Labs and related projects as catalysators for new product and service innovation.
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CoPlasm,
SoLoMIDEM,
CoMobile,
SMART HOME,
xTV,
EMSOC,
AQUA,
Santa Bumo,
Gr@sp,
HI-MASQUERADE,
TELECLASSING,
HiMasquerade,
URBAN,
LLECOS,
URBIZONE USER RESEARCH,
DIGIMO,
Citizen Media,
MINECO,
A4MC3,
E-Paper,
MADUF,
Future Study E-Health,
E-Democracy,
BILA,
I-CITY,
ROMAS,
VIN
Probe and proxies: Unraveling meaningful technology experiences (2013)
Characteristics and Their Outcomes in Living Labs: A Flemish-Finnish Case Study (2013)
Extending the field of view: A human-centred design perspective on 360° TV (2013)
Living up the Lab: Exploring and Co-Designing an online cycle route planner through Ethnographic Tools and Co-Creation within a Flemish ICT-Living Lab (2013)
The impact of the organizational setup of Living Labs on the innovation process: a case study between different Living Lab approaches in Flanders (2012)
Seeing the bigger picture: A user perspective on 360° TV (2012)
IBBT xTV, deliverable D6.2.: Report on concept co-design through producer-user blending (2011)
From Sensory Dream to Television Format: Gathering User Feedback on the Use and Experience of Omnidirectional Video-based Solutions (2011)
User-driven Innovation in the Case of Three-dimensional Urban Environments (2011)
Managing Social Adoption and Technology Adaption in Lungitudinal Studies of Mobile Media Applications (2010)
How to make friends? Characteristics of offline communities affecting the impact of social network sites on intra-community cohesion. (2010)
Hot or not? characteristics for user acceptance of a social network site in offline communities (2009)
Co-Creation and User-Generated Content - Elderly People's User Requirements (2009)
Deliverable D1.1.3 Non-professional users as co-creators of media content (2009)
Ensuring Trust, Privacy and Etiquette in Web 2.0 Applications (2009)
How to make friends? Characteristics of offline communities affecting the impact of social network sites on intra-community cohesion. (2009)
Deliverable D5.3.1 User Acceptance Assessments (2009)
Re-inventing Newspapers in a Digital Era: the Mobile E-Paper (2009)
Configuring living labs for a 'thick' understanding of innovation (2009)
E-Democratie for Flanders. An assessment of European practice. viWTA/Vlaams Parlement (2009)
Proxy technology assessment as a multi-method approach for identifying social requirements of co-creative media. Paper presented at NordiCHI 2008 Workshop: New approaches to requirements elicitation (2008)
Faking the real thing? Proxy technology assessment as a method for participative design. Paper presented at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (2008)
User experiences Urbizone. Research report for Brussels Regional Informatic Center (2008)
Mobile television: new affordance, new practice? Paper presented at the IAMCR 2008 Conference (2008)
Making the online complementary to the offline: social requirements to foster the ‘sense of community’. Presentation at Communication Policy and Technology section for the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) congress ‘Me (2008)
Does Mobile Television Challenge the Dimension of Viewing Television? An Explorative Research on Time, Place and Social Context of the Use of Mobile Television Content. Presented at the EuroITV 2008 Conference (2008)
Mobile television or television on a mobile? Presented at the Cost 2008 Conference (2008)
Confronting video-on-demand with television viewing practices (2008)
Presentation paper ‘The mobile digital newspaper. Lessons learned from the epaper project’ (2007)
The Mobile (R)evolution in Everyday Life: A Cross Border between Public and Private Sphere (2007)
Re-inventing newspapers in a digital era: the mobile e-paper (2007)
Video – on – demand: towards new viewing practices? (2007)
Why broadband? The meaning of broadband for residential users. (2007)
Analysing sector specificity regarding ICT and broadband usage by SMME businesses. (2007)
VOD: towards new viewing practices? (2007)
Understanding sector specificity regarding ICT and broadband usage by SMEs in Belgium. Paper presented at the BroadBand Europe Conference (2006)
An interdisciplinary approach in socio-economic research on the diffusion and appropriation- case: the multimedia content distribution platform. Paper presented at the BB Europe conference (2006)
Presentation ‘epaper businessmodelling and user research results’ at European Newspaper Publishers’ National Association (2006)
Walking the interface: uncovering practices through proxy technology assessment. Paper for EPIC 2006 (2006)
ICTs and SMEs – Opportunity or not? (2006)
The mobile digital newspaper: embedding the news consumer in technology development by means of living lab research (2006)
Domestication research for media and technology development: a case study (2006)
Why Broadband? presentation at the BILA workshop (2006)
Stimuleringsbeleid voor ICT-gebruik bij KMO's: onderzoeksverslag en input voor sensibiliseringscampagne (2006)
Eindrapport e-paper - verslag kwalitatief onderzoek fieldtrial. onderzoeksrapport IBBT project e-paper (2006)
E-democracy. Towards a new democracy? (2006)
Living labs for broadband innovation: Configuring user involvement, Paper for the BBEurope 2005 (BroadBand Europe), organised by the framework of BREAD - Broadband For All (www.bbeurope.org) (2005)
MCDP: tussentijds rapport pre-survey focusgroepen (2005)
Multi-platform approach as an answer to the digital divide: which way to go? Paper presented at the IAMCR conference (2005)
Neue Demokratie durch neue Medien? (2005)
Mechanismen en processen van kunstsponsoring in Vlaanderen anno 2004 (2004)
E-Democratie voor Vlaanderen. Een stand van zaken. Onderzoeksrapport in opdracht van viWTA/Vlaams Parlement (2004)
Zaken voor de kunst. Bedrijfssponsoring in de muziek- en podiumkunsttensector in Vlaanderen (2004)
Zaken voor de kunst. Onderzoek naar de mechanismen en processen van bedrijfssponsoring binnen de muziek en podiumkunsten in Vlaanderen anno 2003. Researchreport for the Flemish government (2004)
Vlamm@ - De Vlaamse MultiMedia Actoren (2003)
Characteristics and Their Outcomes in Living Labs: A Flemish-Finnish Case Study (2013)
Extending the field of view: A human-centred design perspective on 360° TV (2013)
Living up the Lab: Exploring and Co-Designing an online cycle route planner through Ethnographic Tools and Co-Creation within a Flemish ICT-Living Lab (2013)
The impact of the organizational setup of Living Labs on the innovation process: a case study between different Living Lab approaches in Flanders (2012)
Seeing the bigger picture: A user perspective on 360° TV (2012)
IBBT xTV, deliverable D6.2.: Report on concept co-design through producer-user blending (2011)
From Sensory Dream to Television Format: Gathering User Feedback on the Use and Experience of Omnidirectional Video-based Solutions (2011)
User-driven Innovation in the Case of Three-dimensional Urban Environments (2011)
Managing Social Adoption and Technology Adaption in Lungitudinal Studies of Mobile Media Applications (2010)
How to make friends? Characteristics of offline communities affecting the impact of social network sites on intra-community cohesion. (2010)
Hot or not? characteristics for user acceptance of a social network site in offline communities (2009)
Co-Creation and User-Generated Content - Elderly People's User Requirements (2009)
Deliverable D1.1.3 Non-professional users as co-creators of media content (2009)
Ensuring Trust, Privacy and Etiquette in Web 2.0 Applications (2009)
How to make friends? Characteristics of offline communities affecting the impact of social network sites on intra-community cohesion. (2009)
Deliverable D5.3.1 User Acceptance Assessments (2009)
Re-inventing Newspapers in a Digital Era: the Mobile E-Paper (2009)
Configuring living labs for a 'thick' understanding of innovation (2009)
E-Democratie for Flanders. An assessment of European practice. viWTA/Vlaams Parlement (2009)
Proxy technology assessment as a multi-method approach for identifying social requirements of co-creative media. Paper presented at NordiCHI 2008 Workshop: New approaches to requirements elicitation (2008)
Faking the real thing? Proxy technology assessment as a method for participative design. Paper presented at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (2008)
User experiences Urbizone. Research report for Brussels Regional Informatic Center (2008)
Mobile television: new affordance, new practice? Paper presented at the IAMCR 2008 Conference (2008)
Making the online complementary to the offline: social requirements to foster the ‘sense of community’. Presentation at Communication Policy and Technology section for the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) congress ‘Me (2008)
Does Mobile Television Challenge the Dimension of Viewing Television? An Explorative Research on Time, Place and Social Context of the Use of Mobile Television Content. Presented at the EuroITV 2008 Conference (2008)
Mobile television or television on a mobile? Presented at the Cost 2008 Conference (2008)
Confronting video-on-demand with television viewing practices (2008)
Presentation paper ‘The mobile digital newspaper. Lessons learned from the epaper project’ (2007)
The Mobile (R)evolution in Everyday Life: A Cross Border between Public and Private Sphere (2007)
Re-inventing newspapers in a digital era: the mobile e-paper (2007)
Video – on – demand: towards new viewing practices? (2007)
Why broadband? The meaning of broadband for residential users. (2007)
Analysing sector specificity regarding ICT and broadband usage by SMME businesses. (2007)
VOD: towards new viewing practices? (2007)
Understanding sector specificity regarding ICT and broadband usage by SMEs in Belgium. Paper presented at the BroadBand Europe Conference (2006)
An interdisciplinary approach in socio-economic research on the diffusion and appropriation- case: the multimedia content distribution platform. Paper presented at the BB Europe conference (2006)
Presentation ‘epaper businessmodelling and user research results’ at European Newspaper Publishers’ National Association (2006)
Walking the interface: uncovering practices through proxy technology assessment. Paper for EPIC 2006 (2006)
ICTs and SMEs – Opportunity or not? (2006)
The mobile digital newspaper: embedding the news consumer in technology development by means of living lab research (2006)
Domestication research for media and technology development: a case study (2006)
Why Broadband? presentation at the BILA workshop (2006)
Stimuleringsbeleid voor ICT-gebruik bij KMO's: onderzoeksverslag en input voor sensibiliseringscampagne (2006)
Eindrapport e-paper - verslag kwalitatief onderzoek fieldtrial. onderzoeksrapport IBBT project e-paper (2006)
E-democracy. Towards a new democracy? (2006)
Living labs for broadband innovation: Configuring user involvement, Paper for the BBEurope 2005 (BroadBand Europe), organised by the framework of BREAD - Broadband For All (www.bbeurope.org) (2005)
MCDP: tussentijds rapport pre-survey focusgroepen (2005)
Multi-platform approach as an answer to the digital divide: which way to go? Paper presented at the IAMCR conference (2005)
Neue Demokratie durch neue Medien? (2005)
Mechanismen en processen van kunstsponsoring in Vlaanderen anno 2004 (2004)
E-Democratie voor Vlaanderen. Een stand van zaken. Onderzoeksrapport in opdracht van viWTA/Vlaams Parlement (2004)
Zaken voor de kunst. Bedrijfssponsoring in de muziek- en podiumkunsttensector in Vlaanderen (2004)
Zaken voor de kunst. Onderzoek naar de mechanismen en processen van bedrijfssponsoring binnen de muziek en podiumkunsten in Vlaanderen anno 2003. Researchreport for the Flemish government (2004)
Vlamm@ - De Vlaamse MultiMedia Actoren (2003)
