Thijs Roumen

Experience

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  Eindhoven University of Technology

  Aug 2007 - Jan 2011

  Student (Bsc)

  Industrial Design

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  University of Tsukuba

  Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  Exchange Student

  Kansei Design

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  EST Fellenoord

  Sept 2010 - Sept 2011

  Commissioner Internal Affairs

  I am part of the 41th board of Eindhoven's Student Tennis Association Fellenoord, which is Eindhoven's largest student sports association. I am responsible for internal communication and organization of the activities.

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  Brabant Centre of Entrepreneurship

  Sept 2010 - Jun 2011

  Member of Certificate Technology Entrepreneurship Program
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  Stik Design

  Dec 2010 - Dec 2013

  Founder & Owner

  Stik Design is a product design and development company. Our first real product (the Wiggle, an interactive playground) has been launched on the market at the Dutch Design Week 2011, in 2012 the concept Kuchi was developed (a promotional tool for the entertainment industry using picture sharing), tested and implemented in a Danish theme park. Yubi (a tool for linking social media to events in a physical way) was also tested and developed. Next to these in house developed products Stik Design has been creating prototypes for many small external projects Show less

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  University of Southern Denmark

  Aug 2011 - May 2013

  I have been working as a student and research assistant at the SPIRE center with the following responsibilities: - Maintaining and Executing tasks on the laser cutter; I was in charge of cutting all jobs for other people, informing how to use the machine and obviously exploring the possibilities of it.- Teaching a workshop course to mechatronics and interaction design bachelors- Teaching Arduino programming and processing courses to interaction design bachelors and IT Product Design masters- Doing promotional work for the SDU in the Netherlands - And various additional prototyping tasks which differed over time Show less

  • Student Assistant

    Sept 2011 - May 2013

  • Graduate Student

    Aug 2011 - May 2013
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  Iværksætter Fabrikken Sønderborg

  May 2012 - Apr 2013

  Team leader Concept Development

  I have been in charge of the concept development and prototyping team during of a series of large public events, activities include assembling teams, dividing tasks and work, taking in customers, making prototypes and models, arranging materials and facilities.

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  DKNL Design

  Aug 2013 - Jan 2014

  Interaction Design Consultant

  Concept and prototype development, for apps and hardwareBiggest project is for LEGO development

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  National University of Singapore

  Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

  Research Assistant

  I work at the NUS-HCI lab lead by Shengdong Zhao. In this I work on several projects mainly in a supporting role by helping with research and hardware development and doing my own research in notification design.Publications:CHI2015: NotiRing: A Comparative Study of Notification Channels for Wearable Interactive Rings. (http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2015-CHI-NotiRing.pdf)CHI2015*as co-author: OmniVib: Towards Cross-body Spatiotemporal Vibrotactile Notifications for Mobile Phones.(http://www.nus-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OmniVib.pdf) Show less

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  HCI Conferences

  Mar 2014 - now

  Reviewer & Chair

  Subcommittee Chair:DIS 2024Associate Chair/PC member for full papers:CHI 2023 - 25UIST 2021 - 25NSF 2022 - 24CSCW 2021-23DIS 2023, SC 2024TEI 2021,23,25MobileHCI 2021 DesForm 2019Organizing CommitteesSCF 2024+ Steering Committee memberSCF 2023 General ChairUIST 2025 Doctoral Symposium Chair UIST 2023, 24 Demo ChairUIST 2022 Student Innovation Contest ChairUIST 2022-24 Best Paper CommitteeDIS 2023, 24 Best Paper CommitteeTEI 2022 Student Design Contest ChairUIST 2018 Local Arrangement ChairReviewer:CHI 2015-2025UIST 2015-2024various othersSpecial Recognitions for my reviews: (30 in total)3x UIST2020, 1x UIST2021, 2x UIST20242x CHI 2015, 2x CHI 2016, 2x CHI 2018, 2x CHI 2020, 2x CHI2021, 2xCHI2022, 1x CHI2023, 1x CHI2024, 3x CHI 2025DIS 2022, 2x DIS 2023CSCW 2015CHI Play 2014, 2015, 2020 Show less

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  Hasso Plattner Institute

  Aug 2014 - Jul 2022

  PhD Candidate

  A PhD in Human Computer Interaction with prof. Patrick Baudisch as supervisorPublications:SCF 22: Structure-Preserving Editing of Plates and Volumes for Laser Cutting.UIST22: HingeCore: Laser-Cut Foamcore for Fast AssemblyCHI22: FoolProofJoint: Reducing Assembly Errors of Laser Cut 3D Models by Means of Custom Joint PatternsUIST21: AutoAssembler AutoAssembler: Automatic Reconstruction of Laser-Cut 3D Models(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2021-UIST-AutoAssembler.pdf)UIST21: Roadkill: Nesting Laser Cut Objects for Fast Assembly(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2021-UIST-Roadkill.pdf)CHI2021: Assembler3: 3D Reconstruction of Laser-Cut Models(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2021-CHI-Assembler3.pdf)CHI2021: Fast-Force: FastForce: Real-Time Reinforcement of Laser-Cut Structures(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2021-CHI-FastForce.pdf)UIST2020: Kerf-Canceling Mechanisms: Making Laser-Cut Mechanisms Operate Across Different Laser Cutters.(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2020-UIST-KerfCanceling-Mechanisms.pdf)UIST2019: SpringFit: Joints and Mounts that Fabricate on Any Laser-Cutter. (http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2019-UIST-springFit.pdf)CHI2019: Kyub: A 3D Editor for Modeling Sturdy Laser-Cut Objects(http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2019-CHI-kyub.pdf)UIST2018: DualPanto: a haptic device that enables blind users to continuously interact with virtual worlds. (http://thijsroumen.eu/data/publications/2018-UIST-Dualpanto.pdf)CHI2018: Grafter: Remixing 3D Printed Machines (http://www.thijsroumen.eu/publications/2018%20CHI%20Grafter.pdf)UIST2016: Mobile Fabrication. (http://www.thijsroumen.eu/publications/2016%20UIST%20Mobile%20Fabrication.pdf)CHI2016: Linespace: A Sensemaking Platform for the Blind.(http://www.thijsroumen.eu/publications/2016%20CHI%20LineSpace.pdf)UIST2015: TurkDeck: Physical Virtual Reality Based on People. Show less

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  Cornell Tech

  Jul 2022 - now

  • Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Information Science and Computer Science at Cornell Tech, NYC

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Information Science at Cornell Tech, NYC

    Jul 2022 - now