Today, Jan Boonants, our new colleague in the WISE lab, got his Master's diploma at Grand Place. [image source: VUB live stream] #VUB #ClassOf2025 #Brussels

This week, I started the academic year with the first lecture of my course on Human-Computer Interaction. It always makes me feel slightly old when I show the students a screenshot of the Magic Desk application and tell them that I "used" it on my Commodore 64 :-) #computerscience #CS #HCI #C64

This afternoon, I had the pleasure of welcoming many new motivated students to our Master's programmes. We wish them all a great start at the #VUB and a lot of success for their studies! #computerscience #CS #informatics

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News article about our research on interoperable indoor positioning systems @openhps.org @sembeacon.org @maximvdw.be #VUB #WISE #positioning

A recent article about our lab's (wise.vub.ac.be) research on interoperable and discoverable indoor positioning systems press.vub.ac.be/vub-research... @openhps.org @sembeacon.org #OpenHPS #positioning @maximvdw.be

This afternoon, my PhD student @maximvdw.be successfully defended his PhD thesis in public. Congratulations again Dr. Maxim Van de Wynckel!! solid.maximvdw.be/publications... @openhps.org @sembeacon.org #VUB #positioning

@maximvdw.be is going to publicly defend his PhD thesis 'Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems' on June 30 at 15:00 (location: VUB LIC.0.04)... www.vub.be/en/event/phd... @wise.vub.ac.be #VUB @openhps.org #positioning

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Just published in JOSS: 'OpenHPS: A Modular Framework to Facilitate the Development of FAIR Positioning Systems' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08113

Some of our ongoing and past research on Cross-Media Technologies, Information Science and Human-Information Interaction: speakerdeck.com/signer/cross... @wise.vub.ac.be #VUB #HCI #CrossMedia #InformationScience

Today, in a seminar organised by InfoGroep, we presented the Data Management and Analytics specialisation to prospective students of our MSc in Computer Science programme. speakerdeck.com/signer/data-... WISE: speakerdeck.com/signer/cross... #VUB #DAMA @wise.vub.ac.be

Our latest article on Improving Social Inclusion in Computer Science Education Through Interactive Stories doi.org/10.48550/arX... #VUB @wise.vub.ac.be #learning

We got our first PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise MR headset...

Our research on OpenHPS and location-based services (wise.vub.ac.be/topic/locati...) is mentioned in the newspaper this week...

Spring is in the air ...

Always VERY inspiring to watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams' again!! ... and to recommend it to some of my students ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_...

Yesterday, I gave our seminar students some tips, including my most important one: 'Avoid "empty" slides like the classical 'Questions?' slide at the end of a presentation and rather put your give-away message or conclusions on the last slide!' speakerdeck.com/signer/tips-...

Our ACM TOCHI paper on theoretical foundations for end-user development of cross-device and IoT applications has just been published: doi.org/10.1145/3716... @acm.org @wise.vub.ac.be #HCI #HCI

Ready to introduce a new generation of students to the secrets and beauty of 'Information Visualisation'... 😀 wise.vub.ac.be/course/infor...

Just reached 250'000 views for our research on Academia.edu :-) vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

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@maximvdw.be is currently presenting our work on discovering indoor environments and indoor positioning systems based on ‬POSO and @sembeacon.org at #FOSDEM. livestream: fosdem.org/2025/schedul... wise.vub.ac.be/topic/locati... @fosdem.bsky.social #positioningsystem #interoperability

I am giving a talk at 11:00 at #FOSDEM in the #Geospatial devroom about discovering indoor environments and indoor positioning systems. Primarily discussing the use of POSO and @sembeacon.org to help achieve this goal. #positioningsystem #locationbasedservice #interoperability

Happy to announce that my book chapter on 'Pen-based Interaction' for the forthcoming Springer Handbook of Human Computer Interaction is now available online: link.springer.com/referencewor... @springernature.com #CHI #WISE #CHI #pen

Location data of 800,000 Volkswagen cars leaked, 30M location data points from apps exposed, and 40,000 apps selling location data. This is what happened to your location data in the past month. We are surveying user perspectives on location data: s.maximvdw.be/3G0 #cybersecurity #privacy

Here we go...