Stephan Wensveen
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Stephan Wensveen is full professor of Constructive Design Research in Smart Products, Services and Systems. He is also Program Director for the Bachelor’s degree and graduate programs of Industrial Design. His interest is in using the power of research through design to foster collaboration between research, education and innovation. He helped introduce notions of ‘aesthetics of interaction’, ‘feedforward’ and ‘interaction frogger' and is co-responsible for canonical examples of Research through Design.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Stephan Wensveen has a long-standing career at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He started as Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design in 2002 and has held an Associate Professorship and, since 2017, a Full Professorship here. Between 2011 and 2013, he worked as Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.
Key Publications
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Ilpo K. Koskinen,J. Zimmerman,T. Binder,J. Redström,S.A.G. Wensveen
Design research through practice
(2011) -
J.P. Djajadiningrat,S.A.G. Wensveen,J.W. Frens,C.J. Overbeeke
Tangible products : redressing the balance between appearance and action
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2004) -
S.A.G. Wensveen,J.P. Djajadiningrat,C.J. Overbeeke
Interaction frogger : a design framework to couple action and function through feedback and feedforward.
(2004) -
C.J. Overbeeke,J.P. Djajadiningrat,C.C.M. Hummels,S.A.G. Wensveen
Beauty in usability : forget about ease of use!
(2002) -
J.P. Djajadiningrat,C.J. Overbeeke,S.A.G. Wensveen
Augmenting fun and beauty: a pamphlet
(2000)
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