Publications

I have (co-)authored >100 journal and conference papers, am co-editor of the books ‘Design for Behaviour Change, theories and practices of designing for change’ and ‘Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing’ published by Routledge and guest associate editor of a special issue on Responsible Digital Health in Frontiers in Digital Health.

For a complete overview you can visit my Google scholar profile or my ORCID. Recent publications are listed below.

2026

When Darkness Brings Light: Framing Healing Experience through Nature Paintings to Stimulate Negative and Positive Emotions (2026) International Journal of Design. Chan Mi Kim, Thomas J. L. van Rompay, Gerald C. Cupchik, Geke D. S. Ludden.

Affordances and Constraints of Child-Voice Agent Interaction: A Scoping Review (2026) International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. Çakır, E., Karahanoğlu, A., Ludden, G., & Reidsma, D.  

Design and evaluation of a smart toy for home therapy for children with cerebral palsy (2026) Interacting with Computers. Tamara Verónica Pinos Cisneros, Ben Schouten, Albert Ali Salah, Kayleigh Schoorl, Marc Nederhand, Ann Marjolein Hepping, Ben Kröse, Geke Ludden.

Self‐Management in Home Care From the Perspective of Healthcare Professionals and Older Adults: A Scoping Review on Facilitators and Barriers (2026) Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026-01. Leonie Slots; Olga Patijn; Hedwig te Molder; Ellen Oosterkamp-Swajcer; Marjolein den Ouden; Johannes Ket; Geke Ludden; Mohammad Niroumand Sarvandani

Why we should stress about stress scores: issues and directions for wearable stress-tracking technology (2026) Interacting with computers, 38(1), 1-10. van den Berg, M. K. N., Karahanoğlu, A., Noordzij, M. L., Maeckelberghe, E. L. M. & Ludden, G. D. S.

2025

The AI-Therapist Duo: Exploring the Potential of Human-AI Collaboration in Personalized Art Therapy for PICS Intervention (2025)International journal of human-computer interaction, 41(23), 14709-14722. Yilma, B. A., Kim, C. M., Ludden, G., van Rompay, T. & Leiva, L. A.

Empowering Lifestyle Changes and Health Identity: A transdisciplinary design methodology (2025) In 14th Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD 2025: Arch of Impact, Relationality in Complexity. Systemic Design Association (Accepted/In press). van Stralen, N., Sturge, J., Gouveia, R. & Ludden, G.

Designing compassionate experiences for mental health and wellbeing: a scoping review (2025) Behaviour & Information Technology, Benedetta Lusi, Armağan Karahanoğlu, Charlotte M. Van Lotringen, Randy Klaassen, Matthijs L. Noordzij & Geke D. S. Ludden.

Tailoring for Health Literacy in the Design and Development of eHealth Interventions: Systematic Review (2025) JMIR Hum Factors 12:e76172, Hovingh J.W., Elderson-van Duin C. ,Kuipers D.A., van Rood Y., Ludden G.D.S., Hanssen D.J.C., Rosmalen J.G.M.

Changing Health Goals with Personal Informatics (2025) In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2867–2883. Tina Ekhtiar, Armağan Karahanoğlu, Ruben Gouveia, and Geke D.S. Ludden.

Exploring adaptive invitation design: an in situ longitudinal study using a smarter music player for people with dementia (2025) Behaviour & Information Technology, 44:15, 3841-3857. Rik Wesselink, Geke Ludden, Marike Hettinga & Berry Eggen.