SMIT - Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication

PROF. DR. AN JACOBS
Senior Researcher
Focus is on the integration of social research within all phases of innovative product development. Therefore, she specializes in user research in the broad sense, combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques (design ethnography, proxy technology assessment, probing and projective techniques, scenario’s and persona’s, living labs). Within the team, she co-ordinates projects related to healthcare and virtual (gaming) experience. With both expertise on adoption and appropriation of new technologies from a professional and end consumer point of view.
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	User Studies


	ACCIO, iCocoon, SEGA, Share4Health, HI-MASQUERADE, CHF, TELECLASSING, HiMasquerade, Teleon, TRANSECARE, CoCoNut, IM3, Acknowledge, Multigov, MONIT, MADUF, Future Study E-Health, COPLINTHO, MULTIGOV, DYSE


	Participatory design of a continuous care ontology: Towards a user-driven ontology engineering methodology (2011) Towards ontology co-creation in institutionalized care settings (2011) IBBT ACCIO, deliverable D1.1: Recommendation report based on the analysis of the current care practices within a institutionalized care context (2011) Beyond being there: A grounded investigation of the value of virtual worlds for remote family interaction (2010) "Do it Yourself with a little help from my friends." (2010) Understanding Hearing Impaired Children: Involving target users with special communication needs (2010) School's out for Redesign: Involving Stakeholders in the Creation of a Teleclassroom Environment and Experience (2010) How to approach a many splendored thing: Proxy Technology Assessment as a methodological praxis to study virtual experience (2010) Criminal cities and enchanted forests: a user-centred assessment of the applicability of the Pervasive GameFlow model (2010) ... [Another 63 publications]