The UT Team

Vanessa Evers

 

Vanessa Evers is coordinator of the FROG project on behalf of UvA. She is chair of the Human Media Interaction (HMI) group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Vanessa and Ioannis with a very young FROG - May 2013
Vanessa and Ioannis with a very young FROG – May 2013

 

Betsy van Dijk
Betsy van Dijk

Betsy van Dijk was with the project until she became ill in 2013. Betsy is recovering: the FROG team misses her.

Betsy, Vanessa and Daphne – daily supervisor, promotor and PhD candidate – in Seville, May 2012

 

Daphne Karreman - Seville, February 2014
Daphne Karreman – Seville, February 2014

Daphne Karreman is working on the development of personality and behavior of a Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide. In her free time she plays the cello and is learning to build violins.

Daphne cello 2

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Randy Klaassen - November 2014
Randy Klaassen – November 2014

Randy Klaassen is finishing his thesis on Health Behaviour Change Support Systems which he will be defending on 27 February 2015.

Jan Kolkmeier - Royal Alcázar, September 2014
Jan Kolkmeier – Royal Alcázar, September 2014

Jan Kolkmeier is doing his Master’s with HMI.

 

Randy and Jan joined the project with just five months to come up with a working solution for the FROG state machine, augmented reality and personality.

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Preparations in simulation on the red FROG in Twente – November 2014.
Testing with a simulation on the red FROG in Twente - November 2014.
Testing the projector
The real thing
The real thing
Gently! November 2014
Slowly! November 2014

 

 

The other side of the camera for once
The other side of the camera for once

Lynn Packwood – day-to-day project manager for FROG – usually only to be seen as a shadow or in a Tilley hat – and author of this blog.