Vero Vanden Abeele





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  • ISEA2019

    Vero Vanden Abeele is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven, Belgium, teaching and researching topics on human-computer interaction, user experience design, gamification, motivational design, social shaping and adoption of technology for health. Vero led the Belgian Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) from 2010 to 2013, was academic chair for ACM CHI subcommittee games and play, and has been involved in the official organisation of ACM CHIPLAY since its advent. Vero is equally member on several program committees and guest editor for several journals related to human and player computer interaction. Her recent work, inspired by governmentality, focuses on disorderly design, i.e., the design of health technologies to support disorderly conduct and accommodate behaviors that escape normalizing power.


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  • Belgium


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