Research

For the first year of my PhD, I focused on reviewing the existing literature on my topic - Virtual Reality and Collaborative Learning. After analyzing 139 articles on the topic, I wrote a systematic review paper on the topic that eventually got published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality in 2023.

For my PhD's first experiment, I worked together with the TU Delft's VR Zone to develop a Virtual Reality experience for three people that requires all three to collaborate and communicate with each other extensively in order to escape a virtual maze.

My thesis research proposal paper, in which I discuss the topic of my thesis - Virtual Reality and Collaborative Learning - as well as the framework and hypotheses I designed to help me with my research. This paper was presented and discussed at IMX 2021's Doctoral Consortium.

At IMX 2021's Doctoral Consortium, I presented a poster on my PhD thesis topic and the framework at its core, focusing on researching effects of Virtual Reality characteristics on specific elements of Collaborative Learning between learners. 

A poster, highlighting several benefits and limitations of using Virtual Reality (VR) for educational purposes.

During the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, LDE CEL and the Technical University of Delft decided to re-create the TU Delft Campus inside popular video game Minecraft (2009) to allow students to still interact with each other and the campus while real-life social interaction was restricted.

Using a self-developed Virtual Reality (VR) experience, we examined VR’s effectiveness in inducing social anger. This study was part of a project intended to better understand the emotion “anger” in hopes of helping those who experience difficulty with and/or lack the ability to regulate anger.

My Master Thesis, focused on educational video games. Its research question: “does an educational video game educate us more effectively if we are not aware of its educational intention?”

A paper on (the use of) a self-developed Virtual Reality experience that allows users to experience what orientation through echolocation is like.

An infographic, comparing movie The Matrix (1999) and some of philosopher Descartes’ work.

A study, using a self-developed Virtual Reality experience, intended to examine similarities and differences in which Virtual Reality and cinema induce claustrophobia amongst viewers.

A paper on transmedial storytelling and canonicity, focusing on how American film and television production company Marvel Studios sabotaged its own attempt to strengthen the world building of its Cinematic Universe.

A study, using a self-developed Virtual Reality experience, intended to examine if presenting the user with different environments can induce specific emotional states.

A hand-drawn infographic explaining the premise behind epigenetics by comparing it to (making a) pizza.

A study focused on discovering if a self-developed neural network Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be taught how to play effectively against a human opponent in (a custom version of) the classic video game Pong (1972).

A small project intended to study how visual scans of bacteria can be translated to digital environments by using the popular video game Minecraft.

Inspired by the work of Lamers, M.H. and van Eck, W.J.O.M.

A study, using a self-developed application, focused on finding alternate motivations for people who have no interest in or enthusiasm for sports and exercise.

A paper focusing on the public's perception of the Cordyceps and to what extent this perception overlaps with actual facts about the fungi.

A study on the differences in smoking habits between jazz- and classical musicians.