Join our team at Hasselt University as a (assistant/associate/full) CS professor "AI Methods & Applications" - uhasselt.be/nl/over-uhasse… (Vacancy text in Dutch - contact me). You'll become part of our research lab the Expertise Centre for Digital Media - charter attached.

Met zo een grote droefheid dat ik dit deel - onze collega prof. dr. Philippe Bekaert is van ons heengegaan Universiteit Hasselt uhasselt.be/nl/instituten/…

Programming nowadays is like a zombie movie: trying to shake off a gazillion sticky and sneaky frameworks and libraries that each use some nifty yet obscure approach to infect your programming style and take over your code. I need more practice in killing zombies.

The toxic culture of rejection in computer science sigbed.org/2022/08/22/the…

A week ago, I successfully defended my PhD thesis in public. Thanks to my advisors (Kim Mens and Bruno Dumas), jury members (Charles Pecheur, Jean Vanderdonckt, Nicolás Cardozo and kruiteen), colleagues, students, friends, and my godfather and his family. #phd

Our alumnus Wim Leers gave a wonderful commencement speech at the graduation event for the Universiteit Hasselt CS students. He emphasised the importance of empathy, a.o. training (novice) programmers to treat code as a means of communication between humans, not just as software artefacts.

Check out all submission dates: Full papers (EICS PACM round 3): Feburary 17, 2023 Late Breaking Results: March 9th, 2023. Workshops: March 17th, 2023. Demonstrations and Posters: March 11th, 2023. Doctoral Consortium: March 17th, 2023. Submissions: new.precisionconference.com

Ere-rector heeft enorm veel betekend voor onze provincie. made-in.be/limburg/voorma…

Diep bedroefd nemen we afscheid van onze prorector Luc De Schepper. UHasselt verliest een hooggewaardeerde collega. Met scherpe analyses en frisse ideeën was hij een inspiratiebron voor collega’s, de regio en daarbuiten Veel sterkte aan familie en vrienden bit.ly/3WdCMqX

In deze @VLAIO proeftuin onderzoeken we hoe technologie kan bijdragen aan meer werkbaar werk in de (maak)industrie, o.a. via de inzet van AR en VR technologie #TECH4WW @UHasselt @Flanders Make #industrie #technologie #tech lnkd.in/eM4tKftd

Every PhD student has to choose a supervisor. But few know how to. Joan Bolker, EdD, counseled PhD students for 30+ years at Harvard, MIT, and Brandeis. Here is her advice on how to choose a supervisor: (Reposting for folks who started following me recently)

We have an open PhD position in the field of HCI. If you are interested in research on technology-assisted support, prototyping, interaction techniques and systems, as well as human-AI interaction, feel free to reach out or apply uhasselt.be/en/about-hasse…

Last days to apply for our PhD position in HCI/CS

Human-Computer Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) community: volunteer to be an AC for the ACM UIST program committee in 2024 (I heard it will be the coolest UIST?). Apply here: forms.gle/taoP66EcCxf8Yd… (RT #UIST2024 #CHI2024 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter & spread the word!)

🌟 Exciting Day 1 at #EICS2024 on June 26th! Kick off with Julie Williamson's keynote on social dynamics in XR, followed by deep dives into AR for training, VR for clinical skills & XR in cyber-physical systems and sessions on programming advances & UI evaluation. 🚀

This year, we are #celebrating 50 years of #Research in #Engineering #Interactive #Computing #Systems. 🎉 In the panel discussion at EICSconf, we remember the #CLL 1974 to #EICS 2024 journey. ACM SIGCHI Università degli Studi di Cagliari #eics2024 #Cagliari #history #hci

That's all from #EICS2024. What a beautiful 5-day journey with amazing talks, intriguing panels, and social events. Thank you all for participating in #EICS2024 in Cagliari. Looking forward to seeing you in Trier for #EICS2025!

#EICS2024 has concluded, but #EICS2025 is almost entirely planned. Save the date! 24-28 June 2025 EICSconf 2025 will be organized by Judy Bowen & Benjamin Weyers and their team in Trier, Germany eics.acm.org/2025/

Van astronautentraining 🧑🏼‍🚀 tot de gezonde snack van de toekomst 🌱, de Eos Wetenschap vzw shortlist is bekend! Met alumni van UGent KU Leuven Universiteit Hasselt ehbrussel ➡️Ontdek de finalisten en stem op jouw favoriet: scriptieprijs.be/nieuws/stem-vo…

I've added one item (shoes) on Vinted after recently opening an account, didn't sell anything yet, was quiet for two weeks and then was locked out because they "suspect" fraud. Too much reliance on AI?