Research projects
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Creating Equal Opportunities at School (CEOS)
The "Creating equal opportunities at school (CEOS)" project, helps bridge the gap between students' current academic success and their cognitive talent.
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The cognitive development of young children in relation to digital media
The goal of this project is to gain insight into how digital media use, key persons and children's individual dispositions affect children's cognitive development.
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Personalised Care in Oncology
Decision support systems are crucial to enable patients and healthcare providers to jointly decide on oncological care. We develop modern AI systems that are reliable, adaptable, and integrated into clinical practice.
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Climate Conversation
This project systematically studies interpersonal communication about climate change both quantitatively and qualitatively. It aims to define, evaluate, and intervene on climate conversation to promote climate action.
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QoLEAD
QoLEAD harnesses the power of AI to deliver appropriate, warm, smart healthcare solutions in three core areas: health, safety, quality of care; social participation and social contact; autonomy, meaning, self-respect.
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What’s BOThering You?
In the project researchers will use AI and take into account the complex nature of student well-being. Information will be used to develop an advanced chatbot that will provide students with personalized support and improve their well-being.
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Aiming for equality of educational opportunities
In this project, it is explored how various educational actors address inequality of opportunities in education, and we investigate whether a 'serious policy game' can contribute to improved collaboration.
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The Predictive Value of Brain Excitation Levels for Electrical Brain Stimulation
This multi-site research project replicates the SHARP program and investigates the role of excitatory/inhibitory levels in the brain in the effectiveness of electrical stimulation for cognitive training.
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The EMOTIV (EEG) project
Investigating children's numerical development using the EMOTIV EPOC X headset in a school setting to enhance understanding and potential interventions for math-related challenges.
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ICT-competency and inequality in student performance
We examine the role that aspects of information and communication technology (ICT) play in inequalities between family background and gender in educational outcomes.
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Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
This project collects unique data among the general workforce to provide new insights into the roles of unequal network composition and returns as explanations for gender disparities in career success.
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Look Who’s Talking
The main aim of this project is to create and field-test chatbots designed to develop and foster long-term engaging and human-like conversations with humans for two technologically and linguistically diverse domains.
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Cool @ School
Financed with an ERC starting grant, project Cool @ School (CatS) contributes to a better understanding of how kids think about and respond to being (un)popular, and how it may shape their bullying behavior.
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Pluralistic Ignorance and the Sexual Double Standard
This project explores the role of pluralistic ignorance in perpetuating sexual double standards (SDS) and investigates the relationship between entertainment media consumption and SDS perception, interpretation, and application.
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Interactieve virtual reality training
This project examined the effects of virtual reality training on the socio-emotional functioning of adolescents diagnosed with developmental language disorders.
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Culture and health communication
This PhD project investigates whether, how, and for whom messages with cultural elements are effective in mass-mediated health campaigns among Turkish-Dutch citizens.
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Centre for Learning and Living with AI
CELLA is designed to equip young learners to learn, live, and work in the age of AI. This new centre on AI and learning focuses on K-12 learners and teachers.
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FLoRA
“Learning to learn” – the ability to monitor and productively adapt one’s learning process – is a key competence formulated by the European Parliament (2006) and increasingly a central focus of education.
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From cold to warm technologies: the role of emotion during learning
This project explores emotions in learning for enhancing Adaptive Learning Tech. It assesses emotions via physiology, self-reports, and observations to adapt task difficulty, comparing new algorithms with default ALTs.
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Understanding old-age inequality
The impact of work, family and health trajectories on post-retirement economic, social and psychological well-being across Europe