Bart Piet Knijnenburg
Born on July 16th, 1984 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Current address:
3301 Palo Verde Rd
Irvine CA 92617, USA
Tel: +1 (404) 435 0944
Email: bart@usabart.nl (personal)
bart.k@uci.edu (academic)
September 2010 – now
Donald Bren School of Informatics and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Advisor: Alfred Kobsa
September 2007 – June 2009 (graduated with top honors)
Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Final project: “Adaptive Advice”, can be found at library.tue.nl/catalog/LinkToVubis.csp?DataBib=6:653921
September 2006 – 2007 (graduated with a GPA of 3.96)
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Final project: “Fiesta: A Social Event Planning System for Google”, can be found at www.hcii.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2007/Google
September 2002 – 2005 (graduated with top honors)
Faculty of Technology Management, TU/e, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Final project: “Cognitive Modeling Tools for User Interface Design”
September 1996 – 2002 (graduated with top honors)
Udens College, Uden
Major courses: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English and Dutch
June 2011 – September 2011
Job description: Development and execution of a research project investigating different justification messages for empowering users to make better decisions about disclosing privacy-sensitive information in the context of a mobile app recommender system. Conducting an online experiment with a simple prototype of the system and semi-structured interviews with a paper-based prototype.
Reference: Martin Svensson (Research Director), martin.a.svensson@ericsson.com
June 2009 – September 2010
Job description: Field trial coordinator for the MyMedia FP7 project on multimedia recommender systems. Co-teacher of the “Thinking and Deciding” Bachelor-level course. Coach of two “Design Track A” student projects.
Reference: Martijn Willemsen (Assistant Professor), m.c.willemsen@tue.nl
February 2009 – September 2010
Job description: Setting up a business around a process innovation in the reintegration of partially disabled employees. Designing Oregami, the software tool used to assist this new approach.
Reference: Matthijs Janssen (CEO), matthijs@techinno.nl
December 2007 – June 2009 (2 days/week)
Job description: Incrementally designing new interaction techniques for AutoFocus, Aduna Enterprise Search and Intella (digital investigation), using short prototype design cycles alternated with user feedback from concept validation and think aloud tests. Interaction design consultancy projects for Aduna customers. Designing website and promotional materials.
Reference: Jeroen Wester (CTO), jeroen.wester@aduna-software.com
May 2005 – May 2006 (full-time)
Job description: Intermate is the Study Association of the BSc study “Innovation Sciences” and the MSc studies “Human Technology Interaction” and “Technology and Policy”. The Education Officer is responsible for the student input in the Faculty’s policy and everyday affairs.
Reference: Dr. Ir. A.M.C. Lemmens (Study-program Manager), opleidingsdirecteurtiw@ieis.tue.nl
Totaling over 600 hours from September 2003 to June 2006
Courses: Pre-Master Research Methods (teaching SPSS), Social Psychology (research assistant), Cognition (developing new course material, yearly guest lecture about cognition and technology), Social Science Applications of Simulation Studies (creating simulations of social phenomena), Research Methods: Measurement (weekly instructions), Fundamentals of Physics (class demonstrations and intermediary tests).
Reviewer for the User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) journal, the Decision Analysis journal, CSCW 2011, CHI 2012.
Keynote speaker of the workshop on "User-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems and Their Interfaces 2" (UCERSTI::2) at RecSys 2011.
Best Thesis award of the Department of Technology Management, 2009.
Nominated for the Dutch CHI “Gerrit van der Veer” Thesis Award 2009.
Best Short Paper / Poster Award at the 2009 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.
Awarded second place in the first round of the TNO “Not Invented Yet” design competition with the project “PicturePal” (developed at CMU).
Granted a full Talent Scholarship by the Nuffic Huygens Scholarship Programme, which paid for my education at Carnegie Mellon University.
Selected as one of the three most promising students of my university to join the Eurotop for Top Students, a three-day international conference on the future of European education.