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Anton Nijholt is a Professor specializing in non-traditional Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. His work focuses on areas such as affective computing, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and playable cities. He has held academic positions across universities in Belgium and the Netherlands and has contributed to over 800 research outputs. As Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Computer Science, he leads the Human-Media Interaction section and serves on editorial boards for Springer's Gaming Media and Social Effects series. Nijholt has supervised approximately fifty Ph.D. students and has been a scientific advisor to Philips Research and a research fellow at institutions like McMaster University (Canada), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Imagineering Institute (Malaysia).
His research interests span humor engineering, multisensory human-food interaction, and leveraging AR/VR technologies to enhance urban environments. He has organized major international conferences and workshops in affective computing, entertainment computing, and BCI applications, including recent edited books like Playable Cities: The City as a Digital Playground (2022) and Brain Art: BCI for Artistic Expression (2019). Nijholt emphasizes playful and humorous interactions in smart cities, advocating for technology that improves social-emotional development and urban livability.
Nijholt’s recent talks and activities highlight his commitment to exploring AR’s societal impact, ethical implications of extended realities, and BCI applications beyond clinical settings. He collaborates internationally, contributing to the development of frameworks for BCI games and multisensorial augmented reality systems. Despite no explicit mention of awards, his editorial roles and conference leadership reflect his significant contributions to the academic community.
