Dick Rijken Dick Rijken is a psychologist who has taken extensive excursions into computer science and electronic music. He was involved in setting up an expertise centre for artificial intelligence and managed a research project for Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group in the field of computer animation. He was head of the Interaction Design department at the Utrecht School of the Arts until 1995. There, he directed the development of a four-year curriculum and an expertise centre in interaction design.
In 1995 he worked for the Netherlands Design Institute on content for DOME (Doors On Matter Environment), an electronic collaborative environment that supports the Design Institute's third Doors of Perception conference. He is also involved in setting up a post-graduate degree in design for new media at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and works as an independent consultant in the field of new media.
His current interests concern the application of computer-based media in business, education, and entertainment -- how new ways of thinking and new approaches to design are required and how these application areas themselves are transformed by new technologies: from thing to process, from thing to environment, from design to facilitation...
e-mail: dick@vpro.nl
updated 29-09-96