Prof. R.P.H. Vertegaal (Roel)
Professor - Data Science
Toernooiveld 212
6525 EC NIJMEGEN
Internal postal code: 47
Postbus 9010
6500 GL NIJMEGEN
Roel Vertegaal is a professor, interaction designer and electronic musician at Radboud University. He holds the Chair in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), directing the Human Media Lab (see link below). Prior to this he was Director of HCI Research at Huawei Consumer Business Group and Professor and Director at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Canada. Roel invented many of today’s modern mobile interaction techniques, such as the flexible and foldable smartphone (Huawei Mate X and Galaxy Fold), attention-aware interactions (Apple iPhone and iPad, Google Hub), light field smartphones and full body video conferencing as well as interactive drone swarms (Flying LEGO). Roel authored over 150 refereed scientific articles, books and patents (h-index 48, 10K+ citations). Roel was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Academy Award for his work, which features widely in the popular press.
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