About

Erik Duval

I chair the research unit on human-computer interaction, at the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

My research focuses on massive hyper-personalization (“The Snowflake Effect“), learning analytics, openness and abundance - topics on which I regularly keynote. In practical terms, we research information visualization, mobile information devices, multi-touch displays and personal informatics. We typically apply our results to technology enhanced learning, access to music and ‘research2.0′.

If you want more details, then please have a look at the pages of my research unit, my publications (see also my google scholar profile and my microsoft academic search profile), my presentations, my facebook page and my blog - or follow me on twitter.

This academic year, I teach courses on:

• Human-Computer Interaction (course wikis for one, two, four, five and six years ago),
• Multimedia (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007),
• problem solving and design in the 1st, 2nd (last year) and 3rd bachelor of engineering,
• capita selecta of human-computer interaction (last year, previous year, year before).
• You may also be interested in what my Master thesis do.

I serve:

• as chair of the IEEE LTSC working group on Learning Object Metadata,
• on the executive committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR),
• as a fellow of the AACE,
• as a member of ACM, and the IEEE computer society.
• on the Editorial Review Board and the Executive Advisory Board of the International Journal on E-Learning,
• on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT),
• on the board of editors of the Journal of Universal Computer Science,
• as a member of the informatics section of the Academia Europeae.

I co-founded two spin-offs that apply research results for access to music and scientific output, as well as the not-for-profit ARIADNE Foundation that promotes share and reuse of learning material.