Projects per year
Personal profile
Quote
“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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MEDical Engineering, Innovations and Applications
Funk, M. (Project Manager), Fang, N. (Project member), Bruno, V. (Project member), Nieuwenhuys, W. (Project member), Kemps, H. M. C. (Project member), Hafkamp, F. (Project member) & van de Pol, J. (Project member)
1/01/22 → 31/12/27
Project: Third tier
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ACACIA- 'Advancing Cancer care And Cardiac care through Interpretable A TKI2112P08 (BE51 / FE)
Funk, M. (Project Manager) & Ruijs, N. (Project member)
1/05/21 → 30/04/26
Project: Third tier
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Design, Data and AI in Servitizing Professional Printing
Funk, M. (Project Manager), Yahya, A. (Project member) & Le, N. (Project member)
1/01/21 → 31/05/28
Project: Third tier
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Prototyping Seamless Interactive Clinical workflows for Advanced radiology & Pathology Image viewing & AI
Funk, M. (Project Manager), Knops, R. (Project member) & Veitch, J. (Project member)
1/01/20 → 21/12/26
Project: Third tier
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PPS TKI Philips MEDICAID: MedTech Solutions for Earlier Detection of Cardiovascular Disease ID FE
Noortman, R. R. (Project member), Funk, M. (Project Manager), Funk, M. (Project member), Eggen, J. H. (Project member) & Raviselvam, S. (Project member)
1/10/19 → 30/09/23
Project: Research direct
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Collaboratively Learning Federated Models from Noisy Decentralized Data
Li, H., Funk, M., Gürel, N. M. & Saeed, A., 16 Jan 2025, Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024. Ding, W., Lu, C.-T., Wang, F., Di, L., Wu, K., Huan, J., Nambiar, R., Li, J., Ilievski, F., Baeza-Yates, R. & Hu, X. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 7879-7888 10 p. 10825502Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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FAST: Federated Active Learning With Foundation Models for Communication-Efficient Sampling and Training
Li, H., Funk, M., Wang, J. & Saeed, A., 21 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. XX, XResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Making Sense of Decentralized TUIs: A Modular Sound-Centric Approach
Di Maggio, F., Hengeveld, B. & Funk, M., 4 Mar 2025, TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 3 p. 136Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Remote patient monitoring in heart failure: A comprehensive meta-analysis of effective programme components for hospitalization and mortality reduction
De Lathauwer, I. L. J. (Corresponding author), Nieuwenhuys, W. W., Hafkamp, F., Regis, M., Brouwers, R. W. M., Funk, M. & Kemps, H. M. C., 20 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Heart Failure. XX, XResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Addressing Uncertainty in Biodesign through Digital Twins: A Case of Biofabrication with Mycelium
Vu, D. V. (Corresponding author), Funk, M., Huang, Y. C. & Barati, B., Dec 2024, In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 31, 6, 28 p., 69.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)2 Downloads (Pure)
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
Dataset
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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
Dataset
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CHI 2023 Workshop Documentation: "Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions"
Lee-Smith, M. L. (Creator), Funk, M. (Creator), Benjamin, J. J. (Creator), Desjardins, A. (Creator), Odom, W. (Creator), Oogjes, D. (Creator), Park, Y.-W. (Creator), Tsaknaki, V. (Creator), Sanches, P. (Creator) & Pierce, J. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 28 May 2024
DOI: 10.4121/0285813d-0f28-434e-98ad-da96ce6c85bc, https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/0285813d-0f28-434e-98ad-da96ce6c85bc and one more link, https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/0285813d-0f28-434e-98ad-da96ce6c85bc/1 (show fewer)
Dataset
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OOCSI
Funk, M. (Contributor), Zenodo, 22 May 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1321220, https://zenodo.org/record/1321220
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award
Zhang, B. (Recipient), Hu, J. (Recipient) & Funk, M. (Recipient), 16 Nov 2014
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Honorable Mention
van der Stappen, A. R. (Recipient) & Funk, M. (Recipient), 17 Apr 2021
Prize: Other › Scientific
Activities
- 1 Membership of committee
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TNO Eindhoven (External organisation)
Funk, M. (Member)
14 Jun 2013 → 4 Apr 2014Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee › Scientific
Courses
Press/Media
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One year of the 4TU.ResearchData community: Reflections, achievements and looking ahead
van Dongen, B. F., Funk, M. & Saccon, A.
6/01/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Eindhoven University of Technology: 'CUCo Takes Me Into Challenging New Terrain'
Tetteroo, D., Funk, M. & Lakens, D.
21/09/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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-Eindhoven University of Technology: A motivational clothes hanger helps you keep running
van der Spek, E. D., Funk, M., Vos, S. B. & Lallemand, C.
8/06/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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A motivational clothes hanger helps you keep running
van der Spek, E. D., Funk, M., Vos, S. B. & Lallemand, C.
24/03/21 → 7/06/21
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Runner’s Perceptions of Reasons to Quit Running: Influence of Gender, Age and Running-Related Characteristics
Vos, S. B., Lallemand, C., van der Spek, E. D. & Funk, M.
1/01/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment