My personal blog- Recoding variables in R with match() February 19, 2012Most books on R start with a short chapter on the language itself before moving on to data analysis. Of course, statistical analysis is the raison d'être of the R ecosystem but the data manipulation and preparation functions are also quite powerful.They can also be a little disconcerting for people used to imperative programming in languages like C, Jav […]
- Election season and statistics January 28, 2012The US primary season is now in full swing and it's as good an occasion as any to play with some data. Some interesting stuff from a statistical angle: Mapping the results from Iowa at Offensive politics (via Revolution Analytics). Some other interesting resources about maps in R: “R” you ready?, Baptiste Coulmont.Matt Asher runs a simulation to look at […]
- Research as usual January 26, 2012Andrew Gelman just posted a follow-up on one of the big psychological research “scandals” of 2011: Daryl Bem's “Feeling the future” paper. Bem relates a series of experiments showing evidence of paranormal “precognition” (for example predicting on which side of the screen erotic pictures are going to appear or remembering some words better before learni […]
- Our programme will resume shortly January 13, 2012It's now over two years since the last time I have posted anything on this blog. Not that I was intensively blogging before, but I had a pretty good excuse. Now that my PhD is out (it should be available soon on the TU Delft repository), I intend to return to blogging. Let's see how it goes… […]
- Recoding variables in R with match() February 19, 2012
Presentation
I am a post-doctoral researcher working with Pieter Desmet in the Design Aesthetics group of Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design faculty. I have a background in computer science, cognitive science and psychology and recently completed a PhD on the moment-to-moment measurement of emotion during person-product interaction under the supervision of Paul Hekkert and Pieter Desmet. I am currently developing a questionnaire to measure feelings like freshness or femininity across cultures.
I am interested in everything that happens between people and the things they use or work with and the ways to study them from psychophysiology and behavioral observation to machine learning and online research. In the course of my work on the measurement of emotion, I also developed an interest in psychometrics and the practical implications of measurement reliability and validity for real life product evaluation.
If you are interested in my research, you might want to check out Pieter’s labmark.

