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introduction

Last change: August 25th, 2008 

This is my research page. I do not have an interest in keeping the world posted on my daily work: the world likely has no interest as well. Here you find sporadic updates on my research and some quotes that I find inspiring.


Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at the Human Media Interaction (HMI) group under professor Anton Nijholt. HMI is part of the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) faculty at the University of Twente (UT) in The Netherlands. I work in the BioRange project that aims to position The Netherlands at the forefront of the rapid developments in the bioinformatics field. Links: [UT | EEMCS | HMI | BioRange]

I focus on automated gesture segmentation in continuous gesturing for intuitive, large display HCI. My goal is to automatically segment continuous gesturing in meaningful and meaningless gestures using only gesture motions. Below you can find my contact info and some of my publications.
 
 

contact info

Last change: March 1st, 2006 

 nameF.W. Fikkert (Wim), M.Sc.
 addressHuman Media Interaction Group
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
 email1f dot w dot fikkert at ewi dot utwente dot nl
 email2/msnwimfikkert at gmail dot com
 phone0031 53 489 4329
 fax0031 53 489 3503
 
 

publications

Last change: August 25th, 2008 

 
2008
 
  W. Fikkert, P. van der Vet, H. Rauwerda, T. Breit and A. Nijholt, Gestures to Intuitively Control Large Displays, in: Gesture Workshop, pages 6, Springer, 2008, in press [BibTex]
 
   W. Fikkert, P. van der Vet and A. Nijholt. Online Segmentation of Continuous Gesturing in Interfaces, Talk at Measuring Behavior, Special Interest Group Measuring Behavior using Motion Capture, ISBN 978-90-74821-81-0. Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 2008. [BibTex]
 
  W. Fikkert and H. van der Kooij, Z. Ruttkay and H. van Welbergen. Measuring Behavior using Motion Capture, Symposium at Measuring Behavior, ISBN 978-90-74821-81-0. Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 2008. [BibTex]
 
   W. Fikkert, When even the walls become displays - gesture interfaces, Poster at: CTIT Symposium on "Creative IT ", Enschede, The Netherlands, 2008. [BibTex]
 
  W. Fikkert. Intuitive Interaction with Large Biological Datasets using a Wiimote, Poster and demonstrator at: Biorange Meeting 2008, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 2008. [BibTex]
 
 A. Nijholt, W. Fikkert H. van Welbergen, J. Zwiers, et al.. Online and offline analysis of motion captured human behavior, Dutch government NWO grant proposal, 2008. [BibTex]
 
2007
 
 W. Fikkert, Gesture Interfaces, in: I/O Vivat: special OrigAmi edition, Jaargang 23/extra, pp. 36-39, ISSN 1389-0468, November 2007 [BibTex]
 
  W. Fikkert, T. Bierz, M. D'Ambros, and T.J. Jankun-Kelly. Interacting with Visualizations. Chapter 3 in: Human-Centered Visualization Environments, A. Kerren, A. Ebert & J. Meyer (eds.), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4417, ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 978-3-540-71948-9, pp. 77-162, 2007. [BibTex | DOI]
 
  W. Fikkert and P. van der Vet. Towards a Gesture Repertoire for Cooperative Interaction with Large Displays, in: 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. [BibTex]
 
 W. Fikkert. Human Computing for the Life Sciences: What does the future hold? I/O Vivat, Jaargang 22/2, pp. 25-27, ISSN 1389-0468, Februari 2007. [BibTex]
 
  P. van der Vet, O. Kulyk, I. Wassink, W. Fikkert, et al.. Smart Environments for Collaborative Design, Implementation, and Interpretation of Scientific Experiments, in: Workshop on AI for Human Computing, T. Huang, A. Nijholt, M. Pantic and A. Pentland (eds), AAAI Press, Hyderabad, India, pp. 79-86, 2007. [BibTex]
 
 W. Fikkert, A Gesture Interface for Life Scientists, Poster at: CTIT Symposium on "Enabling Sustainable and Personalized Healthcare with ICT", Enschede, The Netherlands, 2007. Honorary commendation in poster competition. [BibTex]
 
2006
 
   W. Fikkert, D. Heylen, B. van Dijk, A. Nijholt, et al. Estimating the Gaze Point of a Student in a Driving Simulator. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 5-7, X. Kinshuk, et al. (eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, ISBN 0-7695-2632-2, pp. 497-501, 2006. [BibTex]
 
  W. Fikkert, O. Kulyk, I. Wassink, B. van Dijk, et al., Scientific Collaborative Environment, Poster at: Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference, Ede, The Netherlands, 2006. [BibTex]
 
2005
 
 W. Fikkert. Estimating the Gaze Point of a Student in a Driving Simulator. Master Thesis. Human Media Interaction Group, University of Twente, 2005. [BibTex]
 
2005
 
  H. Dollen and W. Fikkert. MiS20 - Robot Soccer Simulator. Technical Report. Human Media Interaction Group, University of Twente, 2003. [BibTex]
 
 

student supervision

Last change: August 28th, 2008 

I am supervising several students at HMI for group and individual projects. The latter are listed below. If you are interested in doing an assignment with me, do not hesistate to contact me!
 
2008
 
 Unassigned (Capita Selecta) Minority Report: gestures to control a large display
 
 Unassigned (Capita Selecta) Magnetic Birds: using a complex sensor for pointing
 
  E. Dehling (Capita Selecta) - Using multiple WiiMote cameras to control a game *completed*
 
  J. Jonker (MSc) - Replacing the point and click paradigm with multimodal interaction *completed*
 
2007
 
  J. Koster (MSc) - Comparing tabletop display interaction techniques: directness and integrality *completed*
 
  M. Lansing (BSc) - Efficiency of Unimanual versus Bimanual GUI Object Resizing Tasks on Large Displays *completed*
 
  M. Diephuis (BSc) - Characterizing Human Movement and Gestures using Joint Angles *completed*
 
  K. Tjin-kam-jet (BSc) - Evaluating Left and Right Hand Conducting Gestures *completed*
 
  A. Koetsier and J. Laagland (internship) - Report on the extension of iDesk *completed*