Mathias Funk

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.

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Projects

1 Finished

Nano4Sports

Vos, S. B., Funk, M., van der Spek, E. D., Menheere, D. S., Brombacher, A. C., Schoumacher, J. & Vos, S. B.

1/01/17 → 31/12/19

Project: Research direct

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Research Output

A comprehensive value framework for design

Kheirandish, S., Funk, M., Wensveen, S., Verkerk, M. & Rauterberg, M., Aug 2020, In : Technology in Society. 62, 12 p., 101302.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Design labs for data-driven multivalence

Funk, M., 2020, Data-driven multivalence in the built environment. Biloria, N. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 207-222 (S.M.A.R.T. Environments).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

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Open-ended data probing to inform the future of home health care

Noortman, R. R., van Dijk, R. J. J., Funk, M., Liang, J. & Eggen, J. H., 1 Jul 2020, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design4Health. Christer, K., Craig, C. & Chamberlain, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: Sheffield Hallam University, Vol. 3. p. 459 1 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

AffectiveWall: Designing Collective Stress-Related Physiological Data Visualization for Reflection

Xue, M., Liang, R-H., Yu, B., Funk, M., Hu, J. & Feijs, L., 2019, In : IEEE Access. 7, p. 131289-131303 15 p., 8831373.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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Connected peekaboo toolkit: exploring privacy-aware data collection at home

Cheng, Y-T., Funk, M. & Chen, L-L., 12 Nov 2019, p. 1. 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Academic

Open Access

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Datasets

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

DOI: 10.17026/dans-xk7-8f5r

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