Decision Making Researcher

Martijn Willemsen researches the cognitive aspects of Human-Technology Interaction, with a strong focus on judgment and decision making in online environments. His applied research focuses on how online decisions can be supported by recommender systems, and includes domains such as movies, health related decisions and energy-saving measures. From a more theoretical perspective, he has a special interest in process tracing technologies to capture and analyze in detail information processing of decision makers.

Recommender LAB

This lab investigates the user-centric aspects of recommender systems and online decision support systems

Process Tracing LAB

This Lab focuses on investigating decision processes using MouselabWEB and eye-tracking technologies

Professional Page

Professional page of Martijn Willemsen at Eindhoven University of Technology

Publications

all publications with direct links to open access content and ACM DL papers

Martijn Willemsen – short introduction

Martijn Willemsen is associate professor in the Human-Technology Interaction group at the school of Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology and also works as the principle investigator of the Recommender LAB at the Jheronimous Academy of Data Science in Den Bosch. He holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering and in Technology and Society from Eindhoven University of Technology.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in the psychology of decision making, he obtained a Veni-grant from NWO, the Dutch national science foundation. He worked as a postdoc at Columbia University, where he developed, together with Eric Johnson,an online tool for studying information acquisition processes of decision makers, mouselabWEB. Currently, Martijn teaches in the bachelor’s program in Psychology and Technology and the master’s program in Human-Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University of Technology and the data science BSc and MSc programs of JADS.

Latest from my blog

Below some recent news items and blog posts

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