About Me
Professional
Wouter pursues a PhD on design research with children at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He figures out how to optimize designing with children at the faculty of industrial design. He optimizes focus group sessions with eight to twelve year olds. The youngsters create and describe for him their solutions for genuine design problems.
His interest lies in working on the user experience for children. He obtained a Master’s Degree in 2002 on Clinical Linguistics, with a focus on Developmental Language Disorders. After that he worked two years at the Stan Ackerman Institute to receive a Professional Doctorate in Engineering for his work in User System Interaction at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. Children remained the focus of his work in technology. He cooperated in a project on a tabletop environment for children that learned to read (Read-It) and a project on a videobrowser in a family-environment for Philips Digital Systems Laboratories in Eindhoven (now Philips Applied Technologies).
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Personal
Throughout his personal life he often worked with children. As a member of a sailing foundation for disadvantaged children, he went on holidays with children from eight to eightteen. During his exchange-year in Reading (Great Britain), he worked for the Town Hall’s daycare programme for primary school children. Currently he regularly volunteers for the youth programme of his rowing club.
Rowing club? Well, that’s his other passion: water! He rows, sails and does wind surfing. He maintains a Dutch blog on his activities in rowing.