ir. Maarten Houben

Bio

I am a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology at the department of Industrial Design, and researcher at TRANZO Scientific Center for Care and Wellbeing, Tilburg University. My PhD research focuses on investigating the potential of everyday sounds and soundscapes in design of everyday technologies for people with dementia. I adopt a design research approach for introducing and evaluating novel design interventions in everyday care routines and real-life care environments, by involving the perspectives of key stakeholders such as residents in care facilities, their relatives and care practitioners.

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Recente publicaties

1. Exploring everyday sounds in dementia - Practical guidelines for inte…

   Houben, M., Brankaert, R. G. A., Bakker, S., Bongers, I. M. B., & Eggen, B. (2020). Exploring everyday sounds in dementia: Practical guidelines for interactive workshops. In R. Brankaert, & G. Kenning (Eds.), HCI and design in the context of dementia (pp. 207-221). (Human–Computer Interaction Series). Springer.

2. Stakeholder perspectives on design interventions in dementia care

   Houben, M., Brankaert, R., & Wouters, E. J. M. (2020). Stakeholder perspectives on design interventions in dementia care. In R. Wakkary, & K. Andersen (Eds.), DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 43-47). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

3. The perspectives of professional caregivers on implementing audio-bas…

   Houben, M., Brankaert, R. G. A., Kenning, G., Eggen, B., & Bongers, I. M. B. (2020). The perspectives of professional caregivers on implementing audio-based technology in residential dementia care. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17), [6333].

4. The role of everyday sounds in advanced dementia care

   Houben, M., Brankaert, R. G. A., Bakker, S., Kenning, G., Bongers, I. M. B., & Eggen, B. (2020). The role of everyday sounds in advanced dementia care. Paper presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States.

5. Foregrounding everyday sounds in dementia

   Houben, M., Brankaert, R. G. A., Bakker, S., Kenning, G., Bongers, I. M. B., & Eggen, B. (2019). Foregrounding everyday sounds in dementia. In DIS '19 Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 71-83). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.