Resume

» Work Experience

  • 2008 till now: Research Scientist, Philips Research
  • 2008 till now: PhD candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology / Stanford University
  • www.nth-iteration.com
  • 2008 – 2010: Co-founder / developer, Wabebee, the Netherlands
  • www.wabebee.com
  • 04-2007, 06-2008: Lecturer Research Methods, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • 10/2007-09/2008: Research development manager, De Vos & Jansen Marketresearch
  • 01/2007-09/2007: Customer insight specialist / researcher, Vodafone Group R&D
  • 02/2004-08/2004: Data analyst, Nyenrode Business University
  • 08/2003-07/2004: Student assistant, Tilburg University

Also: Free lance development of several web applications. Support and consultancy in web analytics intergration and online statistical analysis. See: www.waalhalla-centrum.nl, www.curbsstore.com, www.shortadress.com, www.quizwinners.com, www.apistat.com.

» Education

  • PDEng. User System Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • MS. Economic Psychology, Tilburg University
  • BS. Psychology, Tilburg University

Additional course work in: Communication Science (full year master level, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Statistics / Bayesian Statistics (several graduate level courses, Stanford University, USA), Physics (several bachelor level courses, Stanford University, USA), Scientific Journalism (Stichting Cursussen Wetenschapsjournalistiek), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Skilled programmer: [R], php, actionscript, javascript, html, css, java, C#, SPSS syntax.

» Publications

  • Kaptein, M.C. (2011) Adaptive Persuasive Messages in an E-commerce setting: The Use of Persuasion Profiles. In the proceedings ofThe European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2011 [IN PRESS].
  • Kaptein, M.C. (2011) Using Persuasion Profiles For Adaptive Persuasive Systems: The Revolving Door Problem. CHI 2011 PINC workshop [IN PRESS]
  • Kaptein, M.C., Duplinsky, S, Markopoulos, P. (2011) Means Based Adaptive Persuasive Systems. In the proceedings of Computer-Human Interaction 2011. ACM [IN PRESS].
  • Kaptein, M.C., de Ruyter, B., Markopoulos, P., & Aarts, E. (2010). Two Acts of Social intelligence: The effects of mimicry and social praise on the evaluation of an artificial agent. AI &Society. 1-13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-010-0304-4.
  • Scherini, T., Melo, P., van Craenendonck, T., Zou, W., and Kaptein, M.C. (2010). Enhancing the Sleeping Quality of Partners Living Apart. Proceedings of Designing Intelligent Systems 2010.
  • Kaptein, M.C., & Eckles, D. (2010). Selecting effective Means to Any End: Futures and Ethics of Persuasion Profiling. T. Ploug, P. Hasle, and H. Oinas-Kukkonen (Eds.): PERSUASIVE 2010, LNCS 6137, pp. 82–93. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
  • Kaptein, M.C., Lacroix, J., & Saini, P. (2010). Individual Differences in Persuadability in the Health Promotion Domain. In T. Ploug, P. Hasle, and H. Oinas-Kukkonen (Eds.): PERSUASIVE 2010, LNCS 6137, pp. 94–105. Springer, Heidelberg.
  • Kaptein, M.C., Nass, C., & Markopoulos, P. (2010). Powerful and Consistent Analysis of Likert-Type Rating Scales. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 2391-2394, ACM Press.
  • Kaptein, M., Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B., & Aarts, E. (2010) Social Connectedness and Compliance. CHI 2010 Workshop paper – NOT IN FORMAL PROCEEDINGS
  • Kaptein, M., Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B., & Aarts, E. (2009) Persuasion in Ambient Intelligence. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 1 (1), 43-56.
  • Kaptein, M.C., Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B., & Aarts, E. (2009) Simple ways to make friends. Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID’ 09) – UNPUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
  • Kaptein, M.C., de Ruyter, B., Markopoulos, P., & Aarts, E. (2009) Persuading you: Individual differences in susceptibility to persuasion. 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, 2009.
  • Kaptein, M.C., de Ruyter, B., Markopoulos, P., & Aarts, E. (2009) Measuring the Subjective User eXperience. 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, pp. 944-945.
  • Kaptein, M.C., Weisscher, A., Terken, J., Nelissen, H. (2009) Online contextmapping: Using the opportunities of web 2.0 for the contextmapping procedure. CoDesign Journal, 4 (5), 213-228.
  • Stoute, I., Kaptein, M.C., and Markopoulos, P. (2009). Evaluating outdoor play for children: virtual vs. tangible game objects in pervasive games. IDC ’09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 5727, pp. 250—253.
  • Kaptein, M.C., Slegers, K., Nelissen, H., Weisscher, A., Terken, J.M.B. (2007) The Digital Workbook; Using Web 2.0 for Generative Research Purposes. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2007, Singapore.
  • Al Mahmud, A., Kaptein, M.C., Moran, O., van de Garde-Perik, E., & Markopoulos, P. (2007) Understanding Compliance to Privacy Guidelines Using Text-and Video-Based Scenarios. Computer Interaction – {INTERACT} 2007, 11th{IFIP} {TC} 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part {II}, 4662, pp. 156—168.
  • Romero, N., Matysiak A., Kaptein, M.C., & Markopoulos, P. (2007). Behaviours and Preferences when Coordinating Mediated Interruptions: Social and System influence. Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 24-28 September 2007, Limerick, Ireland. Springer.

Please contact maurits [a] mauritskaptein [dot] com for copies of any of these papers.

» Invited talks

This is only a small selection of my public speeches.

  • Magnitude and Structure of the Heterogeneity in Responses to Inlfuence Strategies. CHIMe lab Stanford University, Stanford, USA (2011)
  • Persuasion Profiles – iWAPS (informal Workshop on Adaptive Persuasive Systems. Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2010)
  • Selecting effective Means to Any End: Futures and Ethics of Persuasion Profiling. Persuasive 2010, Kopenhagen, Denmark (2010)
  • Persuasion Profiling: Measuring individual differences in responses to social influence strategies. Philips MediaX summer seminars, Stanford, USA
  • Differences in Persuadability in the Health Promotion Domain. Persuasive 2010, Kopenhagen, Denmark (2010)
  • Persuasive Technology Master Class. Industrial Design, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2010)
  • Powerful and Consistent Analysis of Likert-Type Rating Scales. CHI 2011, Atlanta, USA (2010)
  • Measuring the Subjective User Experience. Interact 2009, Uppsala, Sweden (2009)

» Extra

  • Chair of the Board of the “Stichting Skateboarding Nijmegen” – Non-profit that runs the largest concrete indoor skateboard park in Europe. Please visit www.waalhalla-centrum.nl (Since 2009)
  • Winner “Best Paper Award” Persuasive 2010
  • Winner “Unilever Research Prize (best Master Thesis 2005)