Science

How do you know where your hand is? Probably you don’t think about this question too often. However, knowledge about the position of your hand is essential during your daily interaction with all kinds of objects. This becomes even more interesting when you use hands at a distance, e.g. in tele-robotics.

My primary research interest is to understand how humans interact with others, the environment or technologies and to apply this knowledge to design or improve intelligent technologies. Humans have fascinating abilities in perception, (motor) learning and understanding intentions of others and, despite many years of scientific research, we only understand a superficial part of it. The recent exponential developments in technology have given us new opportunities to study these human abilities. For example, we can disentangle aspects that are indissoluble in nature, e.g. mass and inertia or add timing differences, to learn more about human perception. It also allows us to work the other way around and study technologies in their interaction with humans, e.g. shared control or remote social touch.

Currently I am working as assistent professor at TU Eindhoven and I am part of the 4TU Soft Robotics programme.