ProfElise van den Hoven

Elise van den Hoven is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Head of Discipline HCI & Games, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT), University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She is also a member of the UTS Visualisation Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and IT at Ontario Tech University, Canada and Senior Associate for Outside Opinion.
From September 2003 until September 2024 she worked at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands, as a joint appointment with UTS from 2012-2024. From 2015-2023 she had an honorary appointment as Honorary Professor in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Her research interests span different disciplines, including human-computer interaction, design and psychology, including people-centred design, designing interactive systems, physical interaction and supporting human remembering.

Elise leads the international research programme Materalising Memories, studying Design to support remembering practices, and which included collaborations with Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, the University of Dundee, UK and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Her international experience includes visiting scientist positions in the Synaesthetic Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada and GVU, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, US; the Memoir project, University of Sheffield, UK and the Interactivation Studio, DAB, UTS.

Elise has been involved in the ACM Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) international conference series in a chairing role since its inception, including member of the Steering Committee since 2008 and General Co-Chair of TEI 2020, which resulted in an ACM SIGCHI Recognition of Excellent Service (Nov 2021) for organising and chairing the TEI'20-conference at UTS "despite threats of bushfires and pandemic".

Elise is active as a mentor in several formal and informal mentoring programs, and was a member of the Self-Assessment Team (2016-2020) that were successful in receiving the Athena SWAN Bronze award, as part of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) pilot. UTS is one of 40 higher education and research institutions in Australia joining this national gender equity pilot program for people working in STEMM fields. Elise was also a member of the FEIT Equity & Diversity Committee (2016-2020).