Robby Van Delden is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente with 14 years of experience researching interaction design and behavior change through embodied, playful technologies. He leads multidisciplinary projects spanning serious games, interactive floors, XR installations, and animal-computer interaction, and his work has been published at CHI, DIS and Persuasive Technology. Combining hands-on development with user-centered research, he emphasizes Research through Design to produce new interaction principles and comparative studies that explain why designs work. He teaches game design, HCI, and research methods, supervising over 100 MSc students and translating movement-based methods into both research and curriculum (e.g., the Erasmus+ MeCaMinD collaboration). Active in program committees and conference organization, Robby bridges academia and practice, keeping research grounded in real-world deployment and industry standards. An unusual thread through his work is applying playful interaction techniques across species and rehabilitation contexts, from Capuchin enrichment to gait rehab.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Human Media Interaction, Master, Human Media Interaction at University of Twente
VWO, Mathematics, economics, biology, physics, chemistry, VWO, Mathematics, economics, biology, physics, chemistry at Piter Jelles Aldlan
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