Prof. Dr. Ben Schouten graduated from the Rietveld Art Academy and worked as a professional artist for more then twenty years. He founded Desk.nl, an Application Software Provider (ASP), providing innovative internet related solutions. Together with the Dutch Design Institute, Desk was internationally awarded a webby award in gaming.

In 2001 he received his PhD on content based image retrieval  interfaces that express in an adaptive and intuitive way image similarities according to human perception. In the same year he resumed teaching at the Utrecht School of Art & Technology (HKU) in interaction design, supervising masters and bachelors in interaction design and gaming. He is an advisor for the Dutch Media Fund, supporting E-culture for national broadcasting companies.

Since 2010 he is Professor Playful Interaction at the Faculty of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology as well as Lector Serious Game Design at Fontys University of Applied Sciences

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