RealMaps is a web page that shows the world in more than twenty map projections. I made it just for fun and to learn a bit more on map projections. It is not a research project and not meant to be anything serious, but I liked the result enough to share it.
SpaceCHI 2026 takes place on 24 and 25 September at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The conference is about human-computer interaction for space exploration. We have two papers in the proceedings: one on a testbed for driving (interplanetary) robots with a delay, and one on visual prosody for interplanetary communication.
We held a press event at the Noord-Limburgs Open Atelier where we showed our AI-supported tablet tool to the press. We built a tool for Open Atelier that helps non-native Dutch speakers learn the language while they work, and it was picked up by several regional and national outlets.
I have been experimenting with Claude to turn some of our recent papers into interactive “poster pages”: single, self-contained HTML pages that summarize a paper, explain it in plain language, and let a reader play with a live in-browser demo of its core idea.
The ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2026) brought our community together once again, this time from 30 June to 3 July in Patras, Greece. I could not be prouder of what our Digital Future Lab (UHasselt / Flanders Make) team and colleagues shared there.
Our paper "BeatriXR: Comprehensive and Adaptive Feedforward Support for Guidance in Virtual Reality" (PDF) has been accepted at EICS 2026 and will appear in the EICS issue of Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. This is work by Valentino Artizzu together with Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Lucio Davide Spano, and myself.
Our paper "From Embeddings to Exploration: Engineering Interactive Latent Space Visualizations for AI Model Sensemaking" (PDF) has been accepted at EICS 2026 and will appear in the EICS issue of Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. This is work by Sebe Vanbrabant together with Jarne Thys, Gilles Eerlings, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Davy Vanacken, and myself.
Our late-breaking report "RaDIA: Visual Analytics for Systematic Sample Association in Nuclear Weapon Test Verification Workflows" (PDF) has been accepted at EICS 2026 in Patras, Greece. This is work by Stian Verherstraeten together with Christophe Gueibe (SCK CEN), Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, and myself.
The call for papers is open for EISEAIT 2026, the 4th Workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies. The workshop takes place on June 30, 2026 at EICS 2026, with hybrid participation planned. I am co-organizing this edition together with colleagues from across Europe. Submit via EasyChair — deadline is May 8, 2026.
We contribute some reflections on our attempts to progress HCIxFabrication research from the lab to the market in a short paper "Making It Work Is the Work" (to be discussed at the RealFab'26 workshop at CHI 2026 in Barcelona). This is work with my colleagues Danny Leen, Stig Konings, and Raf Ramakers at the Digital Future Lab (UHasselt – Flanders Make).