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Human-Computer Interaction, HCI, Virtual Agents, Virtual Coaching, Embodied Conversational Agents, ECA
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Employment (4)

SHINE 2Europe: Coimbra, PT

2023-04-01 to present | R&I Project Manager
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Fruit Tree Labs Creative Technology, LDA: Lisbon, PT

2023-03-01 to present | CEO / Co-Founder
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Innovation Sprint: Brussels, BE

2021-02-01 to 2023-03-31 | Head of Virtual Coaching
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Roessingh Research and Development: Enschede, NL

2009-04-01 to 2021-01-31 | Senior Researcher (eHealth Group)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Twente: Enschede, NL

2009-04-01 to 2014-10-17 | PhD (Telemedicine Group)
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University of Twente: Enschede, NL

2006-09-01 to 2009-03-31 | Master of Science (Human Media Interaction)
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University of Twente: Enschede, NL

2002-09-01 to 2006-08-31 | Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
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Funding (3)

Tailored IoT & BigData Sandboxes and Testbeds for Smart, Autonomous and Personalized Services in the European Finance and Insurance Services Ecosystem

2019-10-01 to 2022-12-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 856632
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Council of Coaches

2017-09-01 to 2020-08-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 769553
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Games Of Active Life

2016-11-01 to 2019-04-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 731656
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Works (35)

What to Discuss?—A Blueprint Topic Model for Health Coaching Dialogues With Conversational Agents

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
2023-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Tessa Beinema; Harm op den Akker; Hermie J. Hermens; Lex van Velsen
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The WOOL Dialogue Platform: Enabling Interdisciplinary User-Friendly Development of Dialogue for Conversational Agents

Open Research Europe
2022-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Tessa Beinema; Harm op den Akker; Dennis Hofs; Boris van Schooten
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An Embodied Conversational Agent in an eHealth Self-management Intervention for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure: Exploratory Study in a Real-life Setting

JMIR Human Factors
2021-11-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Silke ter Stal; Joanne Sloots; Aniel Ramlal; Harm op den Akker; Anke Lenferink; Monique Tabak
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Tailoring coaching strategies to users’ motivation in a multi-agent health coaching application

Computers in Human Behavior
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Tessa Beinema; Harm op den Akker; Lex van Velsen; Hermie Hermens
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A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals

Language Resources and Evaluation
2021-04-02 | Journal article
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Acceptance and Potential Impact of the eWALL Platform for Health Monitoring and Promotion in Persons with a Chronic Disease or Age-Related Impairment

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2020-10-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesco Infarinato; Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink; Paola Romano; Lex van Velsen; Harm op den Akker; Federica Rizza; Marco Ottaviani; Sofoklis Kyriazakos; Beatrix Wais-Zechmann; Markus Garschall et al.
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LEAVES (optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy): Proposal for an Online Service Development and Evaluation

JMIR Research Protocols
2020-09-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Lex van Velsen; Miriam Cabrita; Harm op den Akker; Lena Brandl; Joana Isaac; María Suárez; Afonso Gouveia; Rute Dinis de Sousa; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Helena Canhão et al.
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An Embodied Conversational Agent in an eHealth Self-management Intervention for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure: Exploratory Study in a Real-life Setting (Preprint)

2020-09-04 | Other
Contributors: Silke ter Stal; Joanne Sloots; Aniel Ramlal; Harm op den Akker; Anke Lenferink; Monique Tabak
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Design Features of Embodied Conversational Agents in eHealth: a Literature Review

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
2020-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Silke ter Stal; Lean Leonie Kramer; Monique Tabak; Harm op den Akker; Hermie Hermens
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Who Do You Prefer? The Effect of Age, Gender and Role on Users’ First Impressions of Embodied Conversational Agents in eHealth

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
2020-05-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Silke ter Stal; Monique Tabak; Harm op den Akker; Tessa Beinema; Hermie Hermens
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Designing interoperable telehealth platforms: bridging IoT devices with cloud infrastructures

Enterprise Information Systems
2020-04-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1751-7575
Part of ISSN: 1751-7583
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LEAVES (optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy): Proposal for an Online Service Development and Evaluation (Preprint)

2020-04-16 | Other
Contributors: Lex van Velsen; Miriam Cabrita; Harm op den Akker; Lena Brandl; Joana Isaac; María Suárez; Afonso Gouveia; Nathaniel Evans; Rute Dinis de Sousa; Ana Maria Rodrigues et al.
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User Experience and Potential Health Effects of a Conversational Agent-Based Electronic Health Intervention: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study

JMIR Research Protocols
2020-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Marian Z M Hurmuz; Stephanie M Jansen-Kosterink; Harm op den Akker; Hermie J Hermens
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Game and Multisensory Driven Ecosystem to an Active Lifestyle

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
2019-09-14 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783030239756
Part of ISBN: 9783030239763
Part of ISSN: 1867-8211
Part of ISSN: 1867-822X
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Tailoring Persuasive Electronic Health Strategies for Older Adults on the Basis of Personal Motivation: Web-Based Survey Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2019-09-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Lex van Velsen; Marijke Broekhuis; Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink; Harm op den Akker
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Integrating Argumentation with Social Conversation between Multiple Virtual Coaches

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA '19
2019-07 | Conference paper
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GOAL: An eHealth Application for Rewarding Healthy Behaviour. The First Experiences of Older Adults

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health
2019-05 | Conference paper
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A Dialogue Game for Multi-Party Goal-Setting in Health Coaching

Computational Models of Argument
2018 | Conference paper
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Council of Coaches - A Novel Holistic Behavior Change Coaching Approach

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health
2018 | Other
Contributors: Harm op den Akker; Rieks op den Akker; Tessa Beinema; Oresti Banos; Dirk Heylen; Björn Bedsted; Alison Pease; Catherine Pelachaud; Vicente Traver Salcedo; Sofoklis Kyriazakos et al.
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Persuasive technology to support active and healthy ageing: An exploration of past, present, and future

Journal of Biomedical Informatics
2018-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Miriam Cabrita; Harm op den Akker; Monique Tabak; Hermie J. Hermens; Miriam M.R. Vollenbroek-Hutten
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Understanding the Acceptance of an eHealth Technology in the Early Stages of Development: An End-User Walkthrough Approach and Two Case Studies

JMIR Formative Research
2018-06-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Lex van Velsen; Mirka Evers; Cristian-Dan Bara; Harm Op den Akker; Simone Boerema; Hermie Hermens
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Cloud based solution for vital signs tracking

IEEE EUROCON 2017 -17th International Conference on Smart Technologies
2017-07 | Other
Contributors: Valentin Rakovic; Daniel Denkovski; Vladimir Atanasovski; Liljana Gavrilovska; Harm op den Akker; Cristian-Dan Bara
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Tailored motivational message generation: A model and practical framework for real-time physical activity coaching

Journal of Biomedical Informatics
2015-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1532-0464
Contributors: Harm op den Akker; Miriam Cabrita; Rieks op den Akker; Valerie M. Jones; Hermie J. Hermens
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Practical Secure Decision Tree Learning in a Teletreatment Application

Financial Cryptography and Data Security
2014-11-09 | Other
Part of ISSN: 0302-9743
Contributors: Sebastiaan de Hoogh; Berry Schoenmakers; Ping Chen; Harm op den Akker
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Motivational cues as real-time feedback for changing daily activity behavior of patients with COPD

Patient Education and Counseling
2014-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0738-3991
Contributors: Monique Tabak; Harm op den Akker; Hermie Hermens
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Feedback presentation for mobile personalised digital physical activity coaching platforms

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA '13
2013 | Other
Contributors: Randy Klaassen; Rieks op den Akker; Harm op den Akker
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Opportunities for Smart & Tailored Activity Coaching

Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
2013-06-20 | Conference paper
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10.1109/CBMS.2013.6627870

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Ontology-Based Generation of Dynamic Feedback on Physical Activity

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
2011 | Other
Part of ISSN: 0302-9743
Contributors: Wilko Wieringa; Harm op den Akker; Valerie M. Jones; Rieks op den Akker; Hermie J. Hermens
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Predicting feedback compliance in a teletreatment application

2010 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2010)
2010-11 | Other
Contributors: Harm op den Akker; Val Jones; Hermie Hermens
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Are you being addressed?

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference on The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL '09
2009 | Other
Contributors: Harm op den Akker; Rieks op den Akker
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Are You Being Addressed? - real-time addressee detection to support remote participants in hybrid meetings

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
2009-09-11 | Conference paper
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978-1-932432-64-0

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Personalized Feedback based on Automatic Activity Recognition from Mixed-Source Raw Sensor Data

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology
2009-07-19 | Conference paper
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Supporting Engagement and Floor Control in Hybrid Meetings

Proceedings of COST Action 2012 International Conference on Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Factial Expressions
2008-10-15 | Conference paper
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10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_26

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Exploring Features and Classifiers for Dialogue Act Segmentation

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
2008-09-08 | Conference paper
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10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9_18

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Smart tailoring of real-time physical activity coaching systems

Dissertation/Thesis
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