Curriculum Vitae
°06-02-1982 Lier
Experience
2020 - present
FACULTY MEMBER
at LUCA School of Arts - Associated Faculty of Arts KU Leuven
My research interests include human-data-interaction, media design and interactive storytelling.
2017 - 2020
DESIGN RESEARCH LEAD
I am responsible for the design research approach of VRT’s innovation department, including (at this moment) 7 European H2020-funded projects, 3 Flemish imec.ICON, 2 Google DNI and several internal funded projects. These research projects span a broad range of topics that concern media and technology, including artificial intelligence, data and personalization, sustainability, internet of things and smart cities.
VOLUNTARY RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Research[x]Design, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven
Led by: Prof. Dr. Ir. Arch. Andrew Vande Moere and Prof. Dr. Ir. Arch. Ann Heylighen
Involved in design research in the context of smart cities, i.e. Citizen dialogue kit .
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP COACH
Municipality of Heist op den Berg
In my home town, I am regularly consulted to coach employees to organize participatory design workshops on urban planning and renewing. I also occasionally co-facilitate these workshops.
2012-2017
PhD CANDIDATE (BAP)
Research[x]Design, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ir. Arch. Andrew Vande Moere
Thesis is entitled “Urban Visualization. Design Strategies for the Public Visualization of Urban Data”. This research was based on 5 exploratory design studies including augmenting street signage with hyperlocal data in Street Infographics, creating a novel type of interactive urban infrastructure in the Bicycle Barometer, and co-designing public displays for the visualization of debate on urban issues in Organicity’s experiment Public Like Display.
2010-2012
DESIGN RESEARCHER
Interactions, including research groups Social Spaces en Play&Game, MAD faculty, LUCA school of Arts, Genk.
Tasks involved in two design-oriented research projects, including 1) the UI design and evaluation of a multi-touch device for arts centre Z33, as part of the EFRO funded research project Creating Spaces. In particular, I was responsible for project management and UI design (partners: EDM, Z33 as main applicator, KHLIM)
2) responsibility for the set up, script and animated scenes of the serious game ‘The Latest Continent’, a proof of concept for EFRO funded research project GameHUB (partners: EDM, PHL as main applicator, KHLIM and Group T)
3) service design for Future Formers, project of Eland, funded by Stichting P&V, Provincie Limburg, which was a participative art and media installation with local youth. http://www.futureformers.be/
Teaching activities involved Audio-Visual Arts, course Communication & mediadesign (current name ‘interaction design’), MAD faculty, LUCA School of Arts Genk (parttime 40%).
2006-2010
MEDIA DESIGNER
Limel (Leuven Institute for Media and Learning) KU Leuven.
Design and development of educational animations, interactive applications, and video items.
2005-2010
FREELANCE MEDIA DESIGNER
Design and development of educational animations, interactive applications, and video items. Clients include advertising agencies as VVL BBDO, Square Melon, Red Pepper Media, Impuls...for companies as ING, VRT, Procter&Gamble.
MEDIA ARTIST
Idea and execution of media installation ‘Exploded Film’, a production of Werktank, factory for old and new media, Leuven.
Together with artist Daan Wampers.
SCRIPT WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Scholarship for the script and development of the experimental film and media installation ‘Exploded Film’ by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.
DIRECTOR
Mobile film ‘Domino’, a film that is animated in an experimental way.
Award Best Mobile Film, International Shortfilmfestival 2007, Leuven.
Award Best Mobile Film, Cinepocket 2008, Brussel.
Award Best 1-Minute Film, LABoral Film Festival 2010, Madrid, Spain.
DIRECTOR
Animated short ‘Blauwblauw’, based on the poem of Miguel Declerq for Dicht/Vorm, a production of S.O.I.L.
Award Best non-narrative film, I Castelli Animati Festival 2009, Rome, Italy.
DIRECTOR
Animated film ‘On a lead’, a cross-over between 2D en 3D-animation.
Award best animated film, Internationaal Shortfilmfestival 2005, Leuven.
Special Mention best 3D film. On a Lead. Red Stick Animation Award Baton Rouge 2006, LA, United States.
Honorable Mention best comic animation. International Festival of Cinema & Technology, Tour Award 2008, USA.
EDUCATION
2012-2017
KU LEUVEN, PHD IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium.
2001-2005
KHLIM GENK, MASTERS, AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
Animated Film KHLim
COURSES
LEADERSHIP COURSE
6-Day course organised by PerCo, at VRT Belgium
URBAN INTERACTION DESIGN
Summer School (10 days) on Urban Interaction Design at Split, Croatia, as part of the European project Urban IxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City, http://urbanixd.eu/
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in internationally reviewed academic journals
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). What Public Visualization Can Learn from Street Art. Leonardo - Art, Science and Technology, 50 (1), 90-91. Impact factor: 0.12. Citation count 3 (source google scholar).
Schoffelen J., Claes S., Huybrechts L., Martens S., Chua A., Vande Moere A. (2015). Visualising Things. Perspectives on How to Make Things Public through Visualisation. CoDesign, 12 (3-4), 179-192. Impact factor: 1.68. Citation count: 16.
Wouters N., Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2015). Investigating the Role of Situated Public Displays and Hyperlocal Content on Place-Making. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) (25), 60-72.
Papers at international scientific conferences and symposia, published in full proceedings
Claes S., Wijnants M., Libot C., Bauwens R. (2019). #The Day : Triggering User Generated Videos in Participatory Media Productions. Conference INTERACT, 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus. (Accepted for publication, forthcoming in September 2019 http://interact2019.org/).
Bauwens R., Claes S. (2019) Marconi: Towards an integrated, intelligent radio production platform. Conference IBC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accepted for publication, forthcoming in September 2019.
Claes S., Jansen S. (2019) 360 Radio Experience: Connecting Live Listening with User Interaction and Visual Radio. Workshop IRE of TVX Conference, Manchester, UK.
Claes, S., Coenen, J., & Vande Moere, A. (2018). Conveying a civic issue through data via spatially distributed public visualization and polling displays. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 597-608). ACM.
Wouters, N., Claes, S., & Vande Moere, A. (2018). Hyperlocal Media Architecture: Displaying Societal Narratives in Contested Spaces. In Proceedings of the 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference (pp. 76-83). ACM.
Claes, S., Bauwens, R., & Matton, M. (2018). Augmenting the Radio Experience by Enhancing Interactions between Radio Editors and Listeners. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 215-220). ACM.
Houben M., Denef B., Mattelaer M., Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). The Meaningful Integration of Interactive Media in Architecture. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Extended Abstracts). DIS'17. Edinburgh, 10-14 June 2017 (pp. 187-191). Acceptance rate: 22%
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). The Impact of a Narrative Design Strategy for Information Visualization on a Public Display. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. DIS'17. Edinburgh, UK, 10-14 June 2017 (pp. 833-838). New York, USA: ACM. Acceptance rate: 22%
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). Replicating an In-The-Wild Study One Year Later: Comparing Prototypes with Different Material Dimensions. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. DIS'17. Edinburgh, UK, 10-14 June 2017 (pp. 1321-1325) ACM. Acceptance rate: 22%
Claes S., Coenen J., Vande Moere A. (2017). Empowering Citizens with Spatially Distributed Public Visualization Displays. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Extended Abstracts.. Designing Interactive Systems. Edinburgh, 10-14 June 2017 (pp. 213-217). Acceptance rate: 22%
Coenen J., Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). The Concurrent Use of Touch and Mid-Air Gestures or Floor Mat Interaction on a Public Display. International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. PerDis'17. Lugano, Switzerland, 7-9 June 2017 (art.nr. 9) ACM. Acceptance rate: 59%. Citation count: 1 (source google scholar). Received Best Paper Award.
Claes S., Slegers K., Vande Moere A. (2016). The Bicycle Barometer: Design and Evaluation of a Cyclist-Specific Interaction for a Public Display. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI'16. San Jose, US, May 7-12 (pp. 5824-5835) ACM. Acceptance rate: 23%
Vande Moere A., Claes S. (2015). Towards Recognizing the Tacit Qualities of Physical Data Visualization. Workshop on Exploring the Challenges of Making Data Physical, co-located with CHI'15. CHI'15. Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015 ACM.
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2015). The Role of Tangible Interaction in Exploring Information on Public Visualization Displays. International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. PerDis'15. Saarbrucken, Germany, 10-12 June 2015 (pp. 201-207) ACM. Acceptance rate: 55%
Valkanova N., Claes S., Behrens M., Vande Moere A. (2015). Information-Bombing: Confronting the Public to Civic Data. Workshop on Beyond Personal Informatics: Designing for Experiences with Data, co-located with CHI'15. CHI'15, 18-23 April 2015(art.nr. 16) ACM.
Claes S., Coenen J., Slegers K., Vande Moere A. (2015). Design Implications of Casual Health Visualization on Tangible Displays. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts). CHI EA'15. Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015(pp. 1839-1844). New York: ACM. Acceptance rate: 20%. Citation Count: 2 (source Google Scholar)
Claes S., Wouters N., Slegers K., Vande Moere A. (2015). Controlling In-The-Wild Evaluation Studies for Public Displays. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI'15. Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015 (pp. 81-84) ACM. Acceptance rate: 23%. Citation count: 8 (source: google scholar)
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2014). What Public Visualization Can Learn From Street Art. IEEE VIS 2014 Arts Program. VISAP'14. Paris, 9-13 November 2014 (pp. 51-55) IEEE.
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2013). Street Infographics: Raising Awareness of Local Issues through a Situated Urban Visualization. International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. PerDis'13. Mountain View, CA, USA, 4-5 July 2013 (pp. 133-138) ACM. Acceptance rate: 71%. Citation count: 14 (source: google scholar)
Ima
Meeting abstracts, presented at international scientific conferences and symposia
Claes S., Godon M. (2019) Designing New Interactive Technologies for Journalists through Roleplaying. Workshop on HCI and Journalism, co-located with CHI’19, Glasgow, UK.
Claes S., Godon M; (2018) Challenges and opportunities for public broadcasters to facilitate citizens to engage with public data and encourage civic participation in the smart city, Workshop on ecocidal cities, co-located with PDC’18, Genk, Belgium
Bauwens R., Claes S. (2018) MARCONI, Interactive, Smart and Lively Environment for Radio. Industry track of TVX’18, Seoul, South Korea.
Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). Merging Evaluation Models of Urban HCI and Casual Information Visualization. Designing Interactive Systems. Edinburgh, 10-14 June 2017.
Nofal E., Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2017). From Europe to Egypt: Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Interactive Systems in-the-Wild. Designing Interactive Systems. Edinburgh, UK, 10-14 June 2017.
Wouters N., Claes S., Vande Moere A. (2014). The Role of Situated Public Displays on the Experience of Place. Workshop on Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space, co-located with NordiCHI '14. Helsinki, Finland, 18-23.
Exhibition and Film Screenings
Data Publics, Installation Citizen Dialogue Kit, Campus Lancaster University, UK
Flanders DC, Installation Tangible Data Interaction, Bondgenotenlaan, Leuven, Belgium
M-idzomer, Installation ‘Exploded Film #2’. Museum M Leuven, Belgium.
Staying long enough, leaving on time. Installation ‘Exploded Film’. Museum M Leuven, Belgium.
Kunstgebeuren. Blauwblauw/Domino/Exploded film. Ede, The Netherlands.
Vonk in de Zuidas (art in public space). Blauwblauw/Domino. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
BYOB (Bring your own beamer). Domino. Eindhoven, The Netherlands
This is not Bruges Central. Installation ‘Curious shadows’. Bruges, Belgium
Watou festival of arts. Blauwblauw. Watou, Belgium.
Disposable Film Festival. Domino. San Francisco, USA.
Viva La Focus, film festival. Domino. Groningen, The Netherlands.
Malta Festival. Blauwblauw. Poznan, Poland.
2Poetry Night. Blauwblauw. Bruges, Belgium.
Kecskemet Animation Film Festival. Blauwblauw. Kecskemet, Hungary.
Festival do Rio. Domino. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Kosmopolis International Literature Fest. Blauwblauw. CCCB Barcelona, Spain.
Zebra Poetry Film Festival. Blauwblauw. Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Germany.
Festival International des très courts. Domino. Paris, France.
Animation Film Festival of Annecy. Blauwblauw. Annecy, France.
De Nachten. Installation Blauwblauw. De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium.
Anima film festival. Blauwblauw. Brussels, Belgium
International Trick Film Festival. Blauwblauw. Stuttgart, Germany.
Les Bienales Internationales de poesie. Blauwblauw. Liege, Belgium.
IndieLisboa, International Independent Film Festival. On a lead. Lisboa, Portugal.
Cinanima. Blauwblauw. Espinho, Portugal
New York International Children’s Film Festival. On a lead. New York, USA.
Feminale, International Women's Film Festival. On a lead. Cologne, Germany.
Media 10/10, Festival du court métrage de Namur. On a lead. Namur, Belgium.
Het grote ongeduld Film Festival. On a lead. Brussels, Belgium.
City in motion, film festival. On a lead. Hasselt, Belgium.
Invited Talks
(forthcoming) INTERACT’19, Paphos, Cyprus, September 2019 « #TheDay Triggering User Generated Videos in Participatory Media Productions.
IRE, TVX’19, Manchester, UK, June 2019 “360 Radio Experience: Connecting Live Listening with User Interaction and Visual Radio”
CHI’19 Workshop on HCI and Journalism, Glasgow, UK, May 2019 “Designing New Interactive Technologies for Journalists through Roleplaying”
LUCA Genk, course Interaction Design (guest lecture), February 2019 “Design Research at VRT”
PDC’18, Genk, Belgium, August 2019 “Challenges and opportunities for public broadcasters to facilitate citizens to engage with public data and encourage civic participation in the smart city »
TELENET x VRT event, June 2018, Antwerp, Belgium “How to Think by Designing”
LUCA Genk, course Interaction Design (guest lecture), March 2018 “Public visualization”
DIS’17 International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK, June 2017 “The impact of a narrative design strategy for information visualization on a public display”
DIS’17 International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK, June 2017 “Replicating an In-The-Wild Study One Year Later: Comparing Prototypes with Different Material Dimensions”
CHI'16 International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, US, May 12, 2016 “The Bicycle Barometer: Design and Evaluation of a Cyclist-Specific Interaction for a Public Display”
PerDis'15 International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 12, 2015, “The Role of Tangible Interaction in Exploring Information on Public Visualization Displays”
CHI'15 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, South Korea, April 18, 2015, “Controlling In-The-Wild Evaluation Studies for Public Displays”
CHI EA’ 15 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, South Korea, April 17, 2015, “Towards Recognizing the Tacit Qualities of Physical Data Visualization”
CHI EA’ 15 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 16, 2015, “Information-Bombing: Confronting the Public to Civic Data”
CHI EA'15, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), Seoul, South Korea, April 19, 2015, “Design Implications of Casual Health Visualization on Tangible Displays”
PerDis'13, International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Mountain View, CA, USA, June 5, 2013, “Street Infographics: Raising Awareness of Local Issues through a Situated Urban Visualization”
iMinds Creative Media Days, How Do You Do 2012, Ghent, Belgium. Invited speaker. http://howdoyoudo.creativemediadays.be/speaker/dandy
Facilitating Workshop, invited by
Various co-design workshops at VRT, 2017 -present, including renewing ‘THUIS’, facing the interactive capabilities of new set-top boxes with Telenet and Proximus, new storytelling formats, new radio experiences, etc.
Various participatory design workshops at the municipality of Heist op den Berg, 2018-present
City of Leuven, August 2017
OrganiCity, City of Aarhus, February 2017
OrganiCity, City of London, December 2016
Design and the City, Amsterdam, November 2016
Legal Design Jam, April 2014
Various participatory design workshops at the city of Genk, 2010-2013
MEMBERSHIPS
PhD commission of Dieter Michielsen, with thesis entitled ‘Urban Storytelling The Civic Potential of Urban Storytelling through Public Displays’ (started 2018).
Jury commission of master students in Interaction Design (LUCA Genk) since 2010 (as an external jury member since 2014), Architectural Engineering (KU Leuven) since 2012.
Supervisor (internal or external) of various master thesis in Interaction Design (LUCA Genk), Architectural Engineering (KU Leuven), Productdevelopment (uAntwerpen) and Industrial Product Design (uGent), serving different research topics.
User board of Innovation project on Digital Participation Tools of province of Antwerp (started 2019, 2-year project).
User board of participatory design projects of municipality of Heist op den Berg (since 2017).
International review committees, including Associate Chair of WIP at CHI’19 and reviewer for, a.o. CHI’19-15, DIS’19-16, PerDis ’18-14 and TVX’19-18.
SKILLS
Field and in-the-wild studies, surveys, wireframing, prototyping, observations, personas and scenarios, interaction logging, interaction design, motion design, visualisation design, filmmaking, media arts
TOOLS
Pen and paper, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Keynote, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, digital fabrication tools (3D print, lasercutting, CNC), notion of physical computing (arduino, raspberry pi, sensors) and basic programming languages.