I am head of the
Interactive Information Access research group
at the
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
My research interests include the automatic generation of user-tailored hypermedia presentations (K-Space NoE and MultimediaN/E-Culture) and document models for hypermedia and synchronized multimedia on the Web (SMIL).
I am part-time professor of multimedia interaction at the University of Amsterdam, in the Informatics Institute.
I co-edited a special issue of the Multimedia Systems Journal on the canonical processes of media production. I was co-programme chair for SAMT 2008. I co-edited a special issue for IEEE Intelligent Systems on AI and Cultural Heritage. Steven Pemberton and I co-edited a special issue of ERCIM News on The Future Web. I am a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Web Semantics and the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.
I run the Interaction Design for the Semantic Web module of User System Interaction at the TU/e.
I am a member of the Dutch-speaking society for Information Science - Vereniging Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap.