Invited talks

Designing Intriguing Interactions: Beyond Usability and Aesthetics
September 2012 – The Web and Beyond conference.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Low-Bandwidth Communication: A Research through Design Approach
February 2011 – Center of Design Research (CDR), Stanford University.
Part of the Design-X lecture series.
Stanford, United States

SnowGlobe: A Prototype Awareness System (Demonstration)
August 2010 – DIS’10 conference, Aarhus University.
Aarhus, Denmark.

Designing for Social Connectedness
January 2010 – HCI-Group, York University.
York, United Kingdom.

A View on Research through Design
October 2009 – Department of Industrial Design, Yonsei University.
Wonju, South Korea.

Publications

Veen, S., Visser, T., Keyson, D.V. (2012) “I Heard You Were on Facebook” – Linking Awareness Systems to Online Social Networking. In: Proceedings of NordiCHI ’12. ACM, New York.

Visser, T., Vastenburg, M.H., Keyson, D.V. (2011) Designing to Support Social Connectedness: The Case of SnowGlobe. International Journal of Design 5(3), 129-142.

Visser, T., Vastenburg, M.H., Keyson, D.V. (2011) Just Saying ‘Hi’ Means a Lot: Designing Subtle Interactions for Social Connectedness. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI’11. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Visser, T., Vastenburg, M.H., Keyson, D.V. (2010) SnowGlobe: the development of a prototype awareness system for longitudinal field studies. In: DIS’10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM, New York.

Visser, T., Dadlani, P., van Bel, D.T., Yarosh, S. (2010) Designing and Evaluating Affective Sociable Media to Support Connectedness. In: CHI’10 Extended Abstracts of the 28th of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York.

Visser, T., Keyson, D.V. (2009) Designing for Social Connectedness: Exploring the Case of Elderly Users. In: Online Proceedings of IASDR’09. KAIST, Seoul.

Merino Albaina, I., Visser, T., van der Mast, A.P.G., Vastenburg, M.H. (2009) Flowie: A Persuasive Virtual Coach to Motivate Elderly Individuals to Walk. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health). IEEE, London.

Vastenburg, M.H., Visser, T., Vermaas, M., Keyson, D.V. (2008) Designing Acceptable Assisted Living Services for Elderly Users. In: AmI’08 Proceedings of the Ambient Intelligence Conference 2008. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Visser, T., Vastenburg, M.H. (2008) Social Nudge: A Mechanism for Stimulating Social Interaction. In: Proceedings of the Workshop: Design for Social Interaction through Physical Play. TU Eindhoven.

Visser, T., Sluis-Thiescheffer, R.J.W. (2007) Involving Extreme Usergroups: Designing for Fire Fighters. In HCI-Methods: Way to Go, CHI-Nederland Conference. CHI-NL, Eindhoven.

Visser, T., Heus, R. (2005) Get Me Out: An Exploration of Haptic Output and Point-To-Point Navigation for Fire Fighters. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics. Lund University.

Bosman, S., Groenendaal, B., Findlater, J.W., Visser, T., de Graaf, M., Markopoulos, P. (2003) Gentleguide: An Exploration of Haptic Output for Pedestrian Guidance. In: Proceedings of Mobile HCI’03. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Design awards

Samsung Innovation Quest (1st Prize).
July 2008 – Design of a new mobile phone application.

New Venture Business Plan (1st Prize).
January 2006 – Business plan for the design of a fire fighter navigation system.

Patents

Solkesz, R.E. and Visser, T. – Navigation system, method and database
GB2462299 – Filed: 31 July 2008