Saar Hommes

Bio

I am currently working as a PhD-student on the project "Data-driven shared decision making: Helping cancer patients choose the right treatment". The aim of the project is to provide patients with a personalized decision aid (a tool designed to help patients make treatment decisions). This project is a collaboration between the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD), the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) and the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL). 

Courses

• Research Seminar 1: Survey & Interview

Recent publications

1. Numbers or narratives? A mixed methods approach to exploring cancer p…

   Hommes, S., Boomstra, E., Vromans, R., Krahmer, E., Van De Poll-franse, L., & de Ligt, K. (2024). Numbers or narratives? A mixed methods approach to exploring cancer patients’ perceptions on receiving numerical and narrative patient reported outcome measures. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Rotterdam.

2. Numbers or narratives? A mixed methods approach to exploring cancer p…

   Hommes, S., Boomstra, E., Vromans, R., Krahmer, E., Van De Poll-franse, L., & de Ligt, K. (2023). Numbers or narratives? A mixed methods approach to exploring cancer patients’ perceptions on receiving numerical and narrative patient reported outcome measures. Abstract from International Conference on Communication in Healthcare , Puerto Rico.

3. “Tell me it gets better over time”: Qualitative assessment of trauma …

   Hommes, S., Vromans, R., de Jongh, M., Houwen, T., Bol, N., de Groot, E., Antheunis, M., & Krahmer, E. (2023). “Tell me it gets better over time”: Qualitative assessment of trauma patients’ perceptions on personalized predictions in a recovery tool. Abstract from International Conference on Communication in Healthcare , Puerto Rico.

4. A reproduction study of methods for evaluating dialogue system output…

   Braggaar, A., Tomas, F., Blomsma, P., Hommes, S., Braun, N., van Miltenburg, E., van der Lee, C., Goudbeek, M., & Krahmer, E. (2022). A reproduction study of methods for evaluating dialogue system output: Replicating Santhanam and Shaikh (2019). In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges (pp. 86-93). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.inlg-genchal.13

5. This conversation is being recorded - An interview study exploring ca…

   Damen, D., Hommes, S., Antheunis, M., & Krahmer, E. (2022). This conversation is being recorded: An interview study exploring cancer patients’ perspectives on the terms and conditions, benefits, and clinical impact of routinely recording healthcare visits. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Brussel, Belgium.