Publications

Justyna Starostka, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Laurence Cliffe, Leo Vitasovic, Willem van der Maden, Paul Tennent, Sami Sebastian Brandt

Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

The Double Bind of Content Moderation in Visual GenAI Tools for Social Care

Erik Grönvall, Willem van der Maden

Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Keeping Up: IxD Education In the Age of GenAI

Wendy Zhou, Martina Vincoli, Willem van der Maden, Jichen Zhu, Swen E. Gaudl, Mattias Rost, Thommy Eriksson, Negin Hashmati, Hugo Andersson, Kaisa Väänänen, Frode Guribye

Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

The Second Workshop on Designing with AI

Pavel Okopnyi, Willem van der Maden, Ville Paananen, Matilda Kalving, Miroslav Bachinski, Simone Grassini, Kaisa Väänänen, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Jonas Ivarsson, Jichen Zhu, Frode Guribye

Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

AI Loves Boobies: Unpacking Harmful Imaginaries in Community-Based Generative AI

Conference Best Pictorial

Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Willem van der Maden, Airi Lampinen, Rob Comber, Madeline Balaam

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery

Conference Honorable Mention

Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Hüseyin Uğur Genç, Willem van der Maden, Rob Comber, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners Evaluate LLM Products in the Wild

Willem van der Maden, Malak Sadek, Ziang Xiao, Aske Mottelson, Q. Vera Liao, Jichen Zhu

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Third Workshop on Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models: AI Agents-in-the-Loop

Willem van der Maden, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Yu Lu Liu, Han Jiang, Valerie Chen, Haotian Li, Juho Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Wei Xu, Motahhare Eslami, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

LLM Self-Explanations as Design Material: Toward a Taxonomy

Preprint

Willem van der Maden, Pelin Karaturhan, Wendy Zhou, Jichen Zhu

CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI

2025

The Unseen Hand: The Influence of Visual and AI Literacy on AI Text-to-Image Generation

Alessandro Canossa, Lisa Toender, Lucas Fellner, Jesper Juul, Willem van der Maden, Jichen Zhu

IASDR 2025: Design Next

History-grounded Design Speculation as a Method for AI Impact Anticipation

Maria Luce Lupetti, Willem van der Maden, Juri Sanni, Lenny Martinez, Elena Cavallin, Serena Cangiano, Alice Mela, Dave Murray-Rust

Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter

1st Workshop on Data Craft as Boundary AI Practice

Maria Luce Lupetti, Alessandro Ianniello, Willem van der Maden, Juri Sanni, Eric Tron Gianet, Minoru Matsui, Dave Murray-Rust

Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter

Photo BOO-th: Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery

Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Hüseyin Uğur Genç, Willem van der Maden, Rob Comber, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam

Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Dead-ends to Dialogue: Third Workshop on Design Research & GenAI

Willem van der Maden, Vera van der Burg, Brett A. Halperin, Petra Jääskeläinen, Peter Kun, Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt, Joseph Lindley, Pavel Okopnyi, Frode Guribye, Maria Luce Lupetti, Jichen Zhu

Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Algorithmic Creativity: How Visual and AI Literacy Impact the Use of Text-to-Image Tools in Design Tasks

Alessandro Canossa, Lisa Toender Berger, Lucas Fellner, Willem van der Maden, Jesper Juul, Jichen Zhu

HCI International 2025 -- Late Breaking Papers

The Centers and Margins of Modeling Humans in Well-being Technologies

Conference Honorable Mention

Jichen Zhu, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Willem van der Maden, Irene Kaklopoulou

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

When Discourse Stalls: Moving Past Five Semantic Stopsigns about Generative AI in Design Research

Preprint

Willem van der Maden, Vera van der Burg, Brett A. Halperin, Petra Jääskeläinen, Joseph Lindley, Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt

arXiv preprint

2024

Evaluating the alignment of AI with human emotions

J. Derek Lomas, Willem van der Maden, Sohhom Bandyopadhyay, Giovanni Lion, Nirmal Patel, Gyanesh Jain, Yanna Litowsky, Haian Xue, Pieter Desmet

Advanced Design Research

Developing and Evaluating a Design Method for Positive Artificial Intelligence

Willem van der Maden, Derek Lomas, Paul Hekkert

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI EDAM)

Death of the Design Researcher? Creating Knowledge Resources for Designers Using Generative AI

Willem van der Maden, Evert Van Beek, Brett A. Halperin, Petra Jääskeläinen, Eunsu Kang, Peter Kun, J. Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt, Joseph Lindley, Michael Muller, Iohanna Nicenboim, Jichen Zhu, Vera van der Burg

Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing Positive AI: How optimizing for contextual wellbeing inspired a design method for artificial intelligence that promotes human flourishing

Dissertation

Willem van der Maden

Delft University of Technology

2023

Identifying meaningful user experiences with autonomous products: A case study in fundamental user needs in fully autonomous vehicles

Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Willem van der Maden, Siyuan Huang, Euiyoung Kim

IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design

Trustworthy Embodied Conversational Agents for Healthcare: A Design Exploration of Embodied Conversational Agents for the periconception period at Erasmus MC

Maria Luce Lupetti, Emma Hagens, Willem van der Maden, Régine Steegers-Theunissen, Melek Rousian

ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Towards a Design (Research) Framework with Generative AI

Willem van der Maden, Evert Van Beek, Iohanna Nicenboim, Vera Van Der Burg, Peter Kun, J. Derek Lomas, Eunsu Kang

DIS '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Positive AI: Key Challenges in Designing Artificial Intelligence for Wellbeing

Preprint

Willem van der Maden, Derek Lomas, Malak Sadek, Paul Hekkert

arXiv preprint

Creative AI for HRI Design Explorations

Marius Hoggenmueller, Maria Luce Lupetti, Willem van der Maden, Kazjon Grace

Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Supporting mental health self-care discovery through a chatbot

Joonas Moilanen, Niels van Berkel, Aku Visuri, Ujwal Gadiraju, Willem van der Maden, Simo Hosio

Frontiers in Digital Health

A framework for designing AI systems that support community wellbeing

Willem van der Maden, Derek Lomas, Paul Hekkert

Frontiers in Psychology

2022

Design for wellbeing during Covid-19: A cybernetic perspective on data feedback loops in complex sociotechnical systems

2022

Willem van der Maden, J. Derek Lomas, Paul Hekkert

DRS2022: Bilbao

Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots

2022