dr. Pieter Desmet

Research advisor

Pieter is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Design of Delft University of Technology. He has a background in design, and in 2002 he obtained a PhD degree with research focused on emotional product experience. His research has been published in major international journals and presented at international platforms.

Pieter is co-founder and board member of the International Design for Emotion Society, and at SusaGroup he is research advisor on why and how consumer products evoke emotion, and in the development of tools and methods that facilitate emotion-driven design.

Gijs Huisman

Research associate

Gijs is a PhD student at University of Twente.His research focuses on the User Experience of tangible interfaces. Gijs finished his Master in Communication Sciences at the University of Twente under supervision of a.o. SusaGroup. At SusaGroup he worked on the development of the LEMtool, a tool to measure emotional experience during interaction with websites or interactive products (with a UI).