Jan Van den Bergh

Research Interests

My research interests include model-driven and user-centered design of user interactive applications, as well as the design and configuration of collaborative and social interactive software.

Scientific Organization

I am co-organizer of a workshop around Model Driven Design of Advanced User Interfaces at IUI 2009.

I am co-organizer of a workshop around Model Driven Design of Advanced User Interfaces at MoDELS 2007.

I am part of the program committee of a workshop around Model-Driven User-Centric Design & Engineering at IFAC-HMS 2007.

I was co-organizer of a workshop around Model Driven Design of Advanced User Interfaces at MoDELS 2006.

I was co-organizer of a workshop around Model Driven Design of Advanced User Interfaces at MoDELS 2005.

Publications

Jan Van den Bergh's publications page at EDM
Jan Van den Bergh's publications page in UHasselt DocLib
Jan Van den Bergh's publications page at DBLP

Projects

I was involved in the SEESCOA project (1999-2003) and the CoDAMoS project (2003-2005), the IWT Participate project of Alcatel Bell (2005-2007). I was and am guiding research within EDM on several projects: IWT Warhol project of Punch Graphix, IBBT GBO CoCoMedia, IBBT ISBO CoCoNut and IBBT ISBO GRASP.

PhD topics

Context-sensitive user interfaces

I'm interested in the creation of context-sensitive user interfaces (especially mobile devices are interesting in this regard). This research consists of two parts; the study of context and how it can be integrated in the design of user interfaces and the study of model-based user interface design and how it can be used for the design of context-sensitive user interfaces. Especially graphical representations of the models using UML 2.0.

This resulted in a UML 2.0 profile, called CUP. There are two versions of this profile:

A UML profile for the Contextual ConcurTaskTrees is also available: Contextual ConcurTaskTrees Profile and custom diagram Contextual ConcurTaskTrees custom diagram for MagicDraw 11.

Participatory Interactive Television

Participatory interactive television is a new form of interactive television in which the viewer really becomes a participant of the show. The viewer can participate in a television show from home, from behind a television or the PC. Webcams, microphones and remote controls can be used to participate to become a part of the show.

The main part of this work is performed within a research and development project funded by IWT in cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent.