David Geerts

David Geerts has a master in Communication Science at the K.U.Leuven and a master in Culture and Communication at the K.U.Brussel. He leads the Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), part of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) as well as the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), is involved in several research projects on user-centered design and evaluation, and is taking his doctor’s degree on Sociability of Interactive Television, with the purpose of developing guidelines and heuristics for designing and evaluating social television interfaces. He organized several workshops and SIGs at CHI2006, CHI2007 and CHI2008 and two workshops on Social Interactive Television at EuroITV2007 and EuroITV2008. David Geerts is co-founder of the Belgian SIGCHI.be chapter and program chair of EuroITV2009, the 7th European Interactive TV Conference.

Publications

Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives
Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives
Pablo Cesar, David Geerts, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos. © 2009. 362 pages.
Television, since its invention, has been considered to be a social link between people. Continually enhanced by innovation, the next frontier for this technological phenomenon...
Sociability Heuristics for Evaluating Social Interactive Television Systems
Sociability Heuristics for Evaluating Social Interactive Television Systems
David Geerts. © 2009. 21 pages.
In this chapter, the author introduces 12 heuristics for evaluating the sociability of social interactive television systems. He first introduce the social uses of television...