Projects
Emotion psychology meets cyber security in IoT smart homes (Cocoon) Ghent University
In Cocoon, we interweave innovations in two distinctly different disciplines to understand and improve security of home IoT technology: emotion psychology and cyber security. We produce an understanding of the psychology of IoT users, assess risks in current and future IoT systems, and formulate provisions for the design and integration of user-centric IoT in tomorrow’s homes. Home is a safe haven to experience privacy and control, personal ...
Bidirectional knowledge transfer between the applied research domain of process modeling and the theoretical core domain of cognitive psychology Ghent University
Observations of how people construct process representations have shed light on how people approach this task and why and when errors occur. One of the key findings is that certain techniques seem to be better than others, but no technique always outperforms the others. Therefore, the hypothesis will be examined that in order to get optimal results there needs to be a fit between the applied technique on the one hand and the task to be ...
Facultair Mobiliteits- en Sabbaticalfonds Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Ghent University
Each faculty has a specific Faculty Mobility and Sabbatical Fund managed by the Faculty Committee for Scientific Research (CWO) to enable research mobility. The faculties have each drawn up faculty regulations in which the funding possibilities of the Faculty Mobility and Sabbatical Fund are detailed.
A Portrait of Philosophical Psychology in the 15th Century: Dominic of Flanders on Particular and Universal Knowledge (With an Edition of Book III of his Expositio super libros de anima) KU Leuven
This dissertation focuses on the philosophical psychology of a little-studied author, Dominic of Flanders (†1479), as elaborated upon in a work that has received no attention in the scholarly literature thus far—viz., his Expositio super libros de anima (composed ante 1470). No modern editions of Dominic’s works exist. Born in the County of Flanders during the first half of the fifteenth century, Dominic was first educated at the University ...
Rethinking 'thinking about your thinking': Identifying the role of metacognitive monitoring inacademic learning through cognitive psychology methods in educational research. KU Leuven
Psychology of Data-Driven Decisions KU Leuven
In the last decade, many companies have made major investments in data analytics. Most conversations around data-driven decision-making emphasize metrics, algorithms, and technology. While that’s understandable given the quick developments in these areas, the danger is we lose sight of decisions, people, and psychology. The goal of this project is to unravel how managers interpret marketing metrics, examine how their interpretations influence ...
Psychology + Data for Better Marketing KU Leuven
In recent years, the consumer and managerial information environment has changed dramatically. Consumers and managers now increasingly rely on data and technology to make decisions. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the psychology of data- and technology-driven decision-making. We will examine questions such as how consumers interpret online reviews when making purchase decisions, how managers interpret marketing metrics when making ...