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Personal profile
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“I have long been fascinated by design, both in aesthetics and process, and software systems with all their complexities and inherent qualities.”
Research profile
Mathias Funk is Associate Professor in the Future Everyday group of the department of Industrial Design. He leads the Things Ecology lab. In addition, he is the co-founder of UXsuite GmbH, a high-tech spin-off of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is interested in design theory and processes for systems, designing systems for musical expression, and designing with data. He has a background in computer science and electrical engineering. He is a versatile software engineer and designs tools for designers such as domain-specific languages and distributed systems frameworks.
Mathias Funk’s main research interest is how designers can design with and for data and systems behavior. He works primarily on design tools and the layers between engineering and modern industrial design. In addition, Funk researches new musical and visual expression, feedback and collaboration tools, and human values and sustainability issues in design.
Mathias Funk co-edited a special issue on ‘Designing for Systems of Smart Things’ for the International Journal of Design. Since 2012, he has been heading the development of the systems-communication framework OOCSI, used by hundreds of students internationally to design connected products and systems.
Academic background
Mathias Funk has a background in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany, and got his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2011. His dissertation was on model-driven design of self-observing products. During his PhD, he was visiting researcher at Philips Consumer Electronics. He did a postdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e and another in TU/e’s Department of Industrial Design. He was appointed Assistant Professor in 2013 and Associate Professor in 2019. He has been Guest Lecturer at Umeå Institute of Design (Sweden), Jiangnan University (China), and TaiwanTech Taipei (Taiwan). Funk has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences and workshops.
Education and Teaching
Squad: Artifice
Research focus, project topics I like to coach
I like to coach projects designing with data and AI. If students want to work on the Data Foundry or OOCSI, short for “Out of Control for Semantic Interactivity”, that is also very welcome.
Vision on education, coaching style
“I expect that master students act like master students, so they are self- directed, academically responsible. They ask the questions. I would like to work with curious people and then I can give the right pointers, I’d rather not have to do too much ‘hand-holding’, although some students do need that, especially when they are new to the ID system.”
Examples of exemplary graduation projects by students I coached
Lei Nelissen: Aeon - Get a grip on your personal information
Sanne van der Linden: Visualizing Medical Narratives from Electronic Health Records to Improve the Medical Decision Making by Reducing the Overload of Data
Haoyu Dong: Exploratory Design for Haptic Symbols: On-body Vibrotactile Pattern to Convey Specific Information
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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ACACIA- 'Advancing Cancer care And Cardiac care through Interpretable A TKI2112P08 (BE51 / FE)
1/05/21 → 30/04/26
Project: Research direct
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PPS TKI Philips MEDICAID: MedTech Solutions for Earlier Detection of Cardiovascular Disease ID FE
Noortman, R. R., Funk, M., Funk, M., Eggen, J. H. & Raviselvam, S.
1/10/19 → 30/09/23
Project: Research direct
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Nano4Sports
Vos, S. B., Funk, M., van der Spek, E. D., Menheere, D., Brombacher, A. C. & Schoumacher, J.
1/01/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research direct
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Collaborative Diffusion: Boosting Designerly Co-Creation with Generative AI
Verheijden, M. P. & Funk, M., 19 Apr 2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 73Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions
Lee-Smith, M. L., Benjamin, J. J., Desjardins, A., Funk, M., Odom, W., Oogjes, D., Park, Y. W., Pierce, J., Sanches, P. & Tsaknaki, V., 19 Apr 2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 342Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Experience Data-enabled Design!
Lovei, P., Noortman, R., Raviselvam, S. & Funk, M., 19 Apr 2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 538Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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MediCoSpace: Visual Decision-Support for Doctor-Patient Consultations using Medical Concept Spaces from EHRs
van der Linden, S., Sevastjanova, R., Funk, M. & El-Assady, M., Jun 2023, In: ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. 14, 2, 20 p., 15.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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SIG on Data as Human-Centered Design Material
Gomez Ortega, A., Lovei, P., Noortman, R., Toebosch, R., Bowyer, A., Kurze, A., Funk, M., Gould, S. J. J., Huron, S. & Bourgeois, J., 19 Apr 2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 518Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Datasets
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Learning analytics for Lix puzzle-game
Vahdat, M. (Creator), Carvalho, M. B. (Creator), Funk, M. (Creator), Rauterberg, G. W. M. (Creator), Hu, J. (Creator) & Anguita, D. (Creator), EASY, 17 Jan 2017
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Educational process mining (EPM): a learning analytics data set
Vahdat, M. (Creator), Oneto, L. (Creator), Anguita, D. (Supervisor), Funk, M. (Supervisor) & Rauterberg, G. W. M. (Supervisor), UCI Machine Learning Repository, 24 Sept 2015
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Prizes
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Honorable Mention
van der Stappen, Almar R. (Recipient) & Funk, Mathias (Recipient), 17 Apr 2021
Prize: Other › Scientific
Activities
- 1 Membership of committee
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Stichting Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC) Nederland (External organisation)
Mathias Funk (Member)
14 Jun 2013 → 4 Apr 2014Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee › Scientific