Jean-Bernard Martens
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Jean-Bernard Martens is Full Professor of Visual Interaction and focuses on developing and testing new augmented-reality interaction styles in which working with visual materials is an important component. Martens is chairman of the ID Board of Examiners and board member of the Eindhoven Museum.
Martens is interested in tools and methods that can support designers of interactive and intelligent systems. He has co-developed methods for storytelling and studying user experience over time, as well as software tools for creating animations and interactive prototypes in an intuitive (designerly) way. He has a background in electrical engineering, visual perception and human-computer interaction.
Martens has authored the books Image Technology Design and Interactive Statistics and co-edited Collaboration in Creative Design. He has developed a program for performing interactive statistics, which is freely distributed through the website htttp://illmoproject.wordpress.com.
The holy grail of human-computer interaction is the idea of transparent or natural interaction, where the interface does not distract the attention from the task at hand.”
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Jean-Bernard Martens studied at the State University of Ghent, Belgium, where he received his Electrical Engineering degree in 1979. In 1983, he obtained his PhD degree and in 1984, one of the resulting papers received an IEEE paper award in the Area of Signal Processing. In the same year, he joined the Institute for Perception Research (IPO) at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He was appointed Associate Professor at TU/e in 1990 and joined the department of Industrial Design in 2003, where he is now a Full Professor in the field of Visual Interaction.
Recent Publications
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Design requirements of tools supporting reflection on design impact
17th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019 (2019) -
Interpreting the diversity in subjective judgments
2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 (2019) -
Insights in experimental data through intuitive and interactive statistics
2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 (2019) -
Requirements gathering for tools in support of storyboarding in user experience design
32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2018 (2018) -
Improving value-awareness through storytelling in user experience design
7th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2018 Held as Part of HCI International 2018 (2018)
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