Anton Nijholt
University of Twente, Netherlands
Biography
Anton Nijholt received his PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He held positions at various universities, both inside and outside the Netherlands. In 1989 he was appointed full professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His main research interests are human-computer interaction with a focus on playful interfaces, entertainment computing, and humor generation. He edited various books, most recently on playful interfaces, entertainment computing and playable cities. Nijholt acted as program chair and general chair of many large international conferences on affective computing, entertainment computing, virtual agents, and multimodal interaction. He is chief editor of the section Human-Media Interaction of the journals Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, and Frontiers in ICT. He is co-editor of the Springer Book Series Gaming Media and Social Effects. Since 2015 he is also Global Research Fellow at the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia.