Jan de Wit

Jan de Wit is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University's Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (Department of Communication and Cognition). His research focuses on human-robot interaction, conversational agents, and the ethical evaluation of AI systems. He is affiliated with the Academic Collaborative Center for Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing.

Key research interests include social robotics, NLP evaluation methodologies, and the psychological impacts of digital interactions. Recent work explores mood contagion in human-robot collaboration and the use of LLMs for simulated user testing.

He has organized workshops like EduCUI 2024 and contributed to projects such as the scoping review on intersectionality in technology design. Notably, he received a Best Paper Award in 2019 and has collaborated with institutions on interdisciplinary research.