Christel De Maeyer

Christel De Maeyer, researcher and lector at Artevelde University College, Ghent, Belgium.

Christel has an international career in the Digital Media space for over 30 years. Holds a Master degree in Communication Science, New Media and Society in Europe, VUB – SMIT – Brussels, where she researched wearable devices and behavior change. In 2008 she got involved in the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, working on behavior design with the team of Dr. BJ Fogg in the area of Peace Innovation and wearable tech.
PhD Candidate, User Centred Engineering Group, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology.
Her main interest is in the domain of behavior change through technologies.
Author: Chasing the Flowers, Does gentrification feed an anti-tech attitude in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley? Book published at ASP Editions, Brussels Belgium
Honors : Top 50 Tech Pioneers in Belgium, by ‘De Tijd’ in 2017,
https://sleepingwithtechnology.com/