Conversations between people and technology.: Lectorale rede dr. Aletta Smits, 17 december 2025, Lectoraat Digitale Transformatie

Aletta Smits

doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.30993610

Conversations between people and technology. Lectorale rede dr. Aletta Smits, 17 december 2025, Lectoraat Digitale Transformatie

Aletta Smits

Human Centered Technologies

Research output: Book/Report › Inaugural speech › Academic

Abstract

Creating meaning through technology in use, that is what we do in the Human-Centered Technology research group. Because technology without meaning is a billionaire making more money somewhere. Technology with meaning, hopeful meaning, helpful meaning, that can move mountains.

In this research group, we study good design of technology, both as a verb, the design process, and as a noun, the resulting design. We do that with the business partners in the region, and in national and international research consortia; with lecturers, PhD-candidates, researchers and students, in dedicated projects, in graduation trajectories and in – what we at the Hanze call – Innovation Work Places (IWPs)

Original language	Dutch
Place of Publication	Groningen
Publisher	Hanze, Centre of Expertise Ondernemen
Number of pages	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30993610
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 03 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 04 Quality Education
SDG 09 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

human-centered technology
inaugural speech

Research Focus Areas Hanze University of Applied Sciences * (mandatory by Hanze)

Entrepreneurship

Research Focus Areas Research Centre or Centre of Expertise * (mandatory by Hanze)

Digital Transformation

Publinova themes

Language, Culture and Arts
ICT and Media
People and Society
Health
Technology

Access to Document

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2 Finished
4 Active

DUTCH Empathische communicatie met digitale collega’s en patiënten in XR
Smits, A. (PI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
Hyperbridge
Groenboom, R. (PI), Smits, A. (PI), Elving, W. (PI) & D'Souza, A. (PI)
1/10/25 → 30/06/29
Project: Research
Enabling Student Ownership of Learning
Smits, A. (PI) & Braad, E. (PI)
1/09/25 → 1/11/26
Project: Research

13 Contribution to conference proceeding
2 Chapter
1 Article
1 Review article

Aanbevelingen van een computer: hoe betrouwbaar zijn ze?
Dinnissen, K., Hauptmann, H., Herder, E., Masthoff, J. & Smits, A., Aug 2025, In: Tijdschrift voor Human Factors. 50, 2, p. 5-9 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Hardly any sliders in real-world apps: a library of algorithmic affordances to bridge the research-practice gap in Human-AI Interaction
Smits, A., Cardona, K., Berk, M., Marantika, T., Meeuwse, T., van Rossen, S., Sent, D., van Turnhout, K. & Hoekman, B. J., Nov 2025, (Accepted/In press) Arppid 2025. Springer Verlag, 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceeding › Academic › peer-review

Open Access
Assessing the Utility of an Interaction Qualities Framework in Systematizing the Evaluation of User Control
Smits, A., Detweiler, C., Bartels, E., Pott, K., van der Stappen, E., van Rossen, S., Cardona, K., Shayan, S., Ziegler, J. & van Turnhout, K., 9 Jul 2024, Design for Equality and Justice: INTERACT 2023 IFIP TC 13 Workshops, York, UK, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Bramwell-Dicks, A., Evans, A., Winckler, M., Petrie, H. & Abdelnour-Nocera, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, p. 185–195 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceeding › Academic › peer-review

4 Oral presentation
3 Invited talk
1 Consultancy

human-AI interaction: how to give people autonomy and control
Smits, A. (Speaker)
1 Apr 2026
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Algorithmic Affordances
Smits, A. (Speaker)
27 Jan 2026
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
The designers’ perspective on Decision Support Systems
Smits, A. (Speaker)
23 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

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