Robin is a postdoctoral researcher working for both the Augment and eMedia group. He is currently investigating whether the combination of gamification techniques and context-aware recommender system techniques can increase the motivation of chronic patients to adhere to telemonitoring (as part of their therapy), and hence, whether these ‘intelligent’ gamification techniques can reduce drop out.
In his PhD Robin explored, designed, developed and evaluated a suite of information visualization tools for understanding, exploring, explaining and disclosing health information. This toolset was aimed at both general practitioners and patients and is driven by three underlying research goals: a...