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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · 29d

Today, Jan Boonants, our new colleague in the WISE lab, got his Master's diploma at Grand Place. [image source: VUB live stream]
#VUB #ClassOf2025 #Brussels

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Sep 24

This week, I started the academic year with the first lecture of my course on Human-Computer Interaction. It always makes me feel slightly old when I show the students a screenshot of the Magic Desk application and tell them that I "used" it on my Commodore 64 :-)
#computerscience #CS #HCI #C64

Introduction - Lecture 1 - Human-Computer Interaction (1023841ANR)

This lecture forms part of the course Human-Computer Interaction given at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Sep 18

This afternoon, I had the pleasure of welcoming many new motivated students to our Master's programmes. We wish them all a great start at the #VUB and a lot of success for their studies!
#computerscience #CS #informatics

Master of Applied Science & Engineering: Computer Science & Master of Science in Applied Informatics: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

General information about the Master in Computer Science programmes at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jul 18

Please support our research on scholarly workflows and the use of digital tools during the research process by participating in the following online survey: vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@wise.vub.ac.be #survey #workflow #VUB

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jul 18

Please support our research on data ownership, privacy and security in IoT tools by participating in the following survey: vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@wise.vub.ac.be #IoT #survey #VUB

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jul 11

News article about our research on interoperable indoor positioning systems
@openhps.org @sembeacon.org @maximvdw.be #VUB #WISE #positioning

Interoperable indoor positioning systems can determine locations of people and objects within buildings

Maxim Van de Wynckel, a researcher at the WISE lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), successfully defended his Ph.D. in computer science on 30 June 2025. Over six years, he explored a major cha...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jul 8

A recent article about our lab's (wise.vub.ac.be) research on interoperable and discoverable indoor positioning systems press.vub.ac.be/vub-research...
@openhps.org @sembeacon.org #OpenHPS #positioning @maximvdw.be

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jun 30

This afternoon, my PhD student @maximvdw.be successfully defended his PhD thesis in public. Congratulations again Dr. Maxim Van de Wynckel!! solid.maximvdw.be/publications...
@openhps.org @sembeacon.org #VUB #positioning

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jun 17

@maximvdw.be is going to publicly defend his PhD thesis 'Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems' on June 30 at 15:00 (location: VUB LIC.0.04)... www.vub.be/en/event/phd...
@wise.vub.ac.be #VUB @openhps.org #positioning

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Jun 15

We know that you all use emails ;-) Please support our research by spending 10 minutes to fill in a survey on the use and management of emails... Thank you!! vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#WISE #email #survey

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · Jun 5

Just published in JOSS: 'OpenHPS: A Modular Framework to Facilitate the Development of FAIR Positioning Systems' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08113

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · May 25

Some of our ongoing and past research on Cross-Media Technologies, Information Science and Human-Information Interaction: speakerdeck.com/signer/cross...
@wise.vub.ac.be #VUB #HCI #CrossMedia #InformationScience

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · May 21

Today, in a seminar organised by InfoGroep, we presented the Data Management and Analytics specialisation to prospective students of our MSc in Computer Science programme. speakerdeck.com/signer/data-... WISE: speakerdeck.com/signer/cross...
#VUB #DAMA @wise.vub.ac.be

Data Management and Analytics Specialisation

This specialisation on Data Management and Analytics forms part of the 2-year Computer Science Master's programme at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Apr 8

Our latest article on Improving Social Inclusion in Computer Science Education Through Interactive Stories doi.org/10.48550/arX...
#VUB @wise.vub.ac.be #learning

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Mar 22

We got our first PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise MR headset...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Mar 15

Our research on OpenHPS and location-based services (wise.vub.ac.be/topic/locati...) is mentioned in the newspaper this week...

Maxim Van de Wynckel @maximvdw.be · Mar 15

🗞️ Deze week in Knack. Mijn onderzoek aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel in de kijker via de rubriek 'Jong talent'.

www.knack.be/nieuws/techn...

Met het #SolidProject en ons OpenHPS.org raamwerk leggen we samen de basis om gebruikers controle te geven over hun locatiegegevens.

Knack article: "Jong talent: Maxim Van de Wynckel (30) zoekt oplossingen om gebruikers meer controle te geven over hun locatiegegevens"

Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Mar 9

Spring is in the air ...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Mar 4

Always VERY inspiring to watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams' again!! ... and to recommend it to some of my students ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 19

Exactly!

Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 19

Yesterday, I gave our seminar students some tips, including my most important one: 'Avoid "empty" slides like the classical 'Questions?' slide at the end of a presentation and rather put your give-away message or conclusions on the last slide!' speakerdeck.com/signer/tips-...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 15

Our ACM TOCHI paper on theoretical foundations for end-user development of cross-device and IoT applications has just been published: doi.org/10.1145/3716...
@acm.org @wise.vub.ac.be #HCI #HCI

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 13

Ready to introduce a new generation of students to the secrets and beauty of 'Information Visualisation'... 😀

wise.vub.ac.be/course/infor...

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 9

Just reached 250'000 views for our research on Academia.edu :-)
vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 4

Please support our research investigating the privacy and transparency of location data by filling in (max 15 mins) and sharing the following survey: lnkd.in/ggbJEnsY

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Beat Signer @beatsigner.com · Feb 1

@maximvdw.be is currently presenting our work on discovering indoor environments and indoor positioning systems based on ‬POSO and @sembeacon.org at #FOSDEM. livestream: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

wise.vub.ac.be/topic/locati... @fosdem.bsky.social #positioningsystem #interoperability

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