Vanessa Evers

CONTACT

Function:	Full Professor
E-mail:	v.evers[at]utwente.nl
Phone:	+31 53 489 3686
Room:	ZI 2057
Homepage:	http://vanessaevers.wordpress.com/

I am a full Professor of Human Media Interaction at the University of Twente.

My research focuses on Human Interaction with Autonomous Agents such as robots or machine learning systems and cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction.

I specifically like to take theories on human behaviour from social psychology and see if similar processes occur when we interact with technology. My work is very much inspired by that of Clifford Nass from Stanford University while I focus on the realisation and acceptance of social behaviours for intelligent systems such as robots. I am active in the HRI, CSCW and CHI communities and I teach courses such as Human Computer Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Global Work, Multimedia and Research methods courses.

Bio

Vanessa Evers is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Twente’s Human Media Interaction group. She received a M.SC. in Information Systems from the University of Amsterdam, and a Ph. D. from the Open University, UK. During her Master studies she spent two years at the Institute of Management Information Studies of the University of New South Wales, Sydney. After her Ph.D. she has worked for the Boston Consulting Group, London and later became an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Informatics. She was a visiting researcher at Stanford University (2005-2007). Her research interests focus on on interaction with intelligent and autonomous systems such as robots or machine learning systems as well as cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction. She has published over 80 peer reviewed publications, many of which in high quality journals and conferences in human computer interaction and human robot interaction. She serves on Program Committees of HRI, HSI, CSCW and ACM Multimedia. Vanessa won the best thesis prize awarded by the Dutch National Society of Registered Information Specialists, was co-author of the James Chen best paper award of the journal on User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction together with her Ph.D. student Henriette Cramer. She is a member of the ACM International Human Robot Interaction Steering Committee and Associate of the Human Robot Interaction Journal.