Studies:

• Master in Communication Science K.U.Leuven. Dissertation: ‘I-mode in Belgium, a User & Gratifications study with adolescents between 18 and 26 years old’. In this dissertation, the evolution of mobile communication systems and the arrival of i-mode was studied.
• Postgraduate K.U.Leuven Usability Design
• Postgraduate K.U.Leuven Web Developer

Work experience:

• Researcher at the Centre for User Experience Research since August 2004.
• Senior researcher at the CUO since august 2008

Projects

• VRT CREACOM (Creative communities)
• CIcK (Convergence Initiative Cable)
• T-CASE (Technologies and Capabilities for Service-Enabling)
• Vlaanderen Interactief (Interactive Flanders)
• ESA Portal (Usability evaluation Portal European Space Agency)
• PhD B.Zaman (PhD UX evaluation methods for preschoolers)
• EUKids Online (EUKids Online)
• VRTV (VRTVideo)
• VRTMP (VRTMultiplayer)
• TALOS (Task aware location based services for mobile environments)

Publications

2009

• Abeele, Vanden, V. & Zaman, B. (2009, August). Laddering the User Experience!. workshop paper (UXEM09 at Interact2009), published online .
• Li, X. , Shan, K. , Zaman, B. & Van Overveldt, M. (2009, September). Behavioural measurement software tool with hardware component. Thesis paper Master of Industrial Sciences, GroupT . Leuven.
• Lobe, B. , Simoes, J. & Zaman, B. (2009, September). Research with Children. in S., Livingstone & L., Haddon (eds.). Kids Online. Opportunities and Risks for children. . : Policy Press.
• Zaman, B. (2009, August). Introduction and validation of a pairwise comparison scale for UX evaluations and benchmarking with preschoolers. workshop paper (UXEM09 at Interac2009, published online .
• Zaman, B. (2009, August). The Strength of Pairwise Comparison Scaling for UX Evaluations with Preschoolers. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5727/2009 in Human-Computer Interaction - Interact 2009 (pp. 634-637). Berlin: Springer.
• Zaman, B. , Vanden Abeele, V. , Markopoulos, P. & Marshall, P. (2009, April). Tangibles for Children, the Challenges. CHI Proceedings
  (pp. 4729-4732). Boston, MA: ACM Press.

2008

• Abeele, Vanden, V. , Zaman, B. & Vanden Abeele, M. (2008, October). The Unlikeability of a Cuddle Toy Interface: An experimental study of preschoolers' likeability and usability of a 3D game played with a cuddle toy versus a keyboard. Book Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5294/2008 (pp. 118-131). Berlin: Springer.
• Shrimpton-Smith, T. , Zaman, B. & Geerts, D. (2008). Coupling the Users: The Benefits of Paired User Testing for iDTV. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 24(2) (pp. 197 - 213). USA: Taylor & Francis Group.
• Vanden Abeele, V. & Zaman, B. (2008). The Extended Likeability Framework: A Theoretical Framework for and a Practical Case of Designing Likeable Media Applications for Preschoolers. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 11 pages). Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 719291: Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
• Zaman, B. (2008, April). Introducing contextual laddering to evaluate the likeability of games with children. Cognition, Technology & Work 10(2) (pp. 107-117). : Springer.

2007

• Shrimpton-Smith, T. & Zaman, B. (2007, July). Does the webdesign disconnect the emotional connection?. Book Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4553/2007 (pp. 1009-1018). Berlin: Springer.
• Zaman, B. & Abeele, V. Vero (2007, June). How to Measure the Likeability of Tangible Interaction with Preschoolers. CHI Nederland
  (pp. 57-59). Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Infotec Nederland BV Woerden.
• Zaman, B. & Vanden Abeele Vero (2007, June). Towards a Likeability Framework that meets Child-Computer Interaction & Communication Sciences. Proceedings of IDC 2007
  (pp. 1-8). Aalborg, Denmark: ACM Press.
• Zaman, B. & Vermaut, R. (2007, July). Getting Lost? Touch and you will find! The user-centered design process of a touch screen. Book Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4551/2007 (pp. 197-206). Berlin: Springer.
• Zaman, B. & Vermaut, R. (2007, March). The hot touch: towards a user friendly and innovative touch screen in a hot desking environment. Information Design Conference. Greenwich, UK.

2006

• Shrimpton-Smith, T. , Zaman, B. & Geerts, D. (2006). Coupling the users: the benefits of paired user testing for iDTV. Proceedings of the 4th Euro iTV Conference (pp. 214-221). Athens, Greece: Athens University of Economics and Business.
• Zaman, B. & Shrimpton-Smith, T. (2006, October). The FaceReader: Measuring instant fun of use. Proceedings of the fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 457-460). Oslo: ACM Press.

2005

• Zaman, B. & Geerts, D. (2005, September). Gender differences in children's creative game play. Young People and New Technologies. UK Northampton.
• Zaman, B. (2005). Evaluating games with children. Proceedings of Interact 2005 Workshop on Child computer Interaction: Methodological Research. Rome, Italy.

Last update: 22/10/2008