Associate Professor Bert Bongers

Associate Professor, School of Design
Visiting Fellow, School of Design

BSc, MSc, PhD
Email: Bert.Bongers@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8932
Fax: +61 2 9514 8787
Room: CB06.06.09 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Biography
Dr. Bert Bongers leads the Interactivation Studio in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building to support the design and research of interactivating objects and spaces.

Bert has a mixed background in technology, human sciences and the arts, developed through education as well as practice. In his PhD thesis he combined insights and experiences gained from musical instrument design, interactive architecture, video performances and interface development for multimedia systems to establish frameworks and an ecological approach for interaction between people and technology.

He has set up media labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Maastricht and lectured on interaction at various universities and schools. He has taught Masters programs such as Industrial Design, Cognitive Systems, Interactive Media and User-System Interaction at Eindhoven, Barcelona and Delft.
His audiovisual installations and performances have been presented at the Powerhouse Museum, DAB Lab gallery and Smart Light Sydney, Metronom Gallery and the Mercat de les Flores In Barcelona, and STEIM and other venues in Amsterdam.

Publications

Books

Bongers, A.J. 2006, Interactivation - Towards an e-cology of people, our technological environment, and the arts., Lulu Publishers, Amsterdam.

Bongers, A.J. 2004, Interaction with our electronic environment: an e-cological approach to physical interface design, Hogeschool van Utrecht, Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Ultrecht, the Netherlands.

Book Chapters

Bongers, A.J. & Smith, S. 2011, 'Interactivating Rehabilitation through Active Multimodal Feedback and Guidance' in Rocker, C; and Ziefle, M. (eds), Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices, IGI-Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 236-260.
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Bongers, A.J. & Van der Veer, G.C. 2009, 'HCI and Design Research Education' in Kotze, P.; Wong, W.; Jorge, J.; Dix, A.; Silva, P.A. (eds), Creativity and HCI: from Experience to Design Education, Springer, UK, pp. 97-112.
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Journal Articles

Bongers, A.J. 2012, 'Interactive video projections as augmented environments', International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 17-52.
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Bongers, A.J. 2012, 'The Projector as Instrument', Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 65-75.
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Bongers, A.J. 2007, 'Electronic Musical Instruments: Experiences of a New Luthier', Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 9-16.
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Bongers, A.J. & Van der Veer, G.C. 2007, 'Towards a Multimodal Interaction Space: categorisation and application', Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 609-619.
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Markopoulos, P., Bongers, A.J., Van Alphen, E., Dekker, J., van dijk, W., Messemaker, S., van Poppel, J., van Vlist, B., Volman, D. & van Wanrooij, G. 2006, 'The PhotoMirror Appliance: Affective Awareness in the Hallway', Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 10, no. 2-3, pp. 128-135.
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Harris, Y. & Bongers, A.J. 2002, 'Palpable Pixels: A method for the development of Virtual Textures', Organised Sound, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 239-246.
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Conference Papers

Lie, S., Liu, D., Bongers, A.J. 2012, 'A cooperative approach to the design of an Operator Control Unit for a semi-autonomous grit-blasting robot', Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2012, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2012 in Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA) 2012, ed Carnegie, D; Browne W, Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA), Wellington, New Zealand.

Mueller, F.'., Walmink, W., Toprak, C.'., Bongers, A.J., Graether, E. & Van den Hoven, E.A. 2012, 'Hanging off a Bar', CHI 2012, Austin, TX, USA, May 2012 in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012 Extended Abstracts (CHI EA 2012), ed Konstan, J.A.; Chi, E.H.; Hook, K., ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1055-1058.

Bongers, A.J. & Mery Keitel, A.S. 2011, 'Interactive Kaleidoscope: Audience Participation Study', OzCHI 2011, ANU, Canberra, November 2011 in Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2011), ed Paris, C; Colineau, N; Farrell, V; Farrell, G; and Huang, W., ACM, New York, pp. 58-61.
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Bongers, A.J. & Smith, S.T. 2010, 'Interactivated rehabilitation device', Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, November 2010 in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ed NA, ACM Digital Library, United States, pp. 410-411.
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Beilharz, K.A., Bongers, A.J., Vande Moere, A. & Ferguson, S. 2009, 'Aesthetic Wearable Interfaces for Multimodal Information Access', IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Uppsala, Sweden, August 2008 in Innovation for an Inclusive Future Workshop of INTERACT International Conference, ed Gross, T; Gulliksen, J; Kotze, P; Oestreicher, L; Palanque, P; Prates, RO; Winckler, M (Eds), Springer, Berlin, pp. n/a-n/a.

Bongers, A.J. 2009, 'Audience Movements and Spatial Interaction', SEAM 2009 Spatial Phrases, Sydney, September 2009 in Spatial phrases: proceedings from the SEAM Symposium 2009, ed Sam Spurr, SEAM, Sydney, pp. 13-45.

Chen, Y., Bongers, A.J. & Iedema, R.A. 2009, 'Visual Melodies - Interactive Installation for Creating a Relaxing Environment in a Healthcare Setting', Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference, Melbourne, November 2009 in Proceedings of the OZCHI 2009, ed Kjeldskov, J., Paay, J. and Viller, S., ACM CHISIG, Melbourne, pp. 361-364.
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Bongers, A.J. 2008, 'Interactivated Reading Table', Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference, Cairns, Queensland, December 2008 in Proceedings of the OzCHI 2008 Conference, ed Bidwell, N., ACM, Cairns, pp. n/p-n/p.

Bongers, A.J. & Mery Keitel, A.S. 2008, 'Interactivated Reading Table', Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference, Cairns, Australia, December 2008 in Proceedings of the Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, ed n/a, CHISIG, Queensland, Australia, pp. 1-2.

Bongers, A.J. & Harris, Y. 2002, 'A Structured Instrument Design Approach: The Video-Organ', New Instruments for Musical Expression NIME-02, Dublin, Ireland, May 2002 in New Insturments for Musical Expressions, ed Harris, Media Lab, Ireland, pp. 86-91.

Bongers, A.J. 2002, 'Interactivating Spaces', International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, July 2002 in Systems Research in the Arts: Music, Environmental Design & the Choreography of Space, ed Lasker, G. E.; Lily, J.; Rhodes, J., IIAS, International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Ontario, Canada.

Tanaka, A. & Bongers, A.J. 2001, 'Global String - A Musical Instrument for Hybrid Space', CAST 01, Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany, September 2001 in Cast01 Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology, ed Fleischmann, M.; Strauss, W., FhG-ZPS, Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany, pp. 177-181.

Original Creative Works

Bongers, A.J. 2009, 'Facets', Art Light, University of Technology, Sydney, UTS Tower.
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Bongers, A.J. 2007, 'Trainflow', Trainflow, DAB Lab, N/A.
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Other research activity

Bongers, A.J. 2002, 'Musica a Metronom', Metronom, Barcelona, Spain.
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