Curriculum Vitae Monique Hendriks

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Who am I?

I am passionate about searching for unlikely connections: between people, disciplines, concepts and words. As a research scientist and creative writer/performer I have a strong creative mindset, while my education in Computer Science & Engineering and Cognitive psychology also gave me a strong analytical mindset. As a research scientist I am specialized in interaction with Artificial Intelligence. As a creative writer I’m a successful slam poet, I have published two novels and am working on new literary concepts such as 3D poetry and multimedia stories. Creative environments where there is attention for both strengths as well as weaknesses of human beings and where there is time and space for experimenting and figuring out details make me happy.

What can I do?

My life has been characterised by a wide interest, in which nevertheless, as can be deduced from this CV, two binding factors can be discovered:

  • An urge to understand the world, which has expressed itself in a strong development of analytical thinking skills
  • An interest in people, psychology and connection, which has expressed itself in an urge to write and share stories and which has led me to make a choice to not focus solely on technology but rather on the interaction with technology

These are the two main themes in my life that fuel my ambition. Creative environments where there is attention for both strengths as well as weaknesses of human beings and where there is time and space for experimenting and figuring out details make me happy.

Through the course of my life, my interests, education and experience have transformed that ambition into the following skills and expertise:

  • Creative writing: novels, short stories, poetry, theatre
  • Video and audio editing
  • Acting
  • Creative processes: workshop facilitation, co-creation, zigzag methodology, acting, creative writing, storytelling
  • Scientific research: writing research papers, state of the art research
  • Cognitive engineering/user interaction and experience: user research, task analysis, concept mapping, interactive wireframing
  • Data analysis: statistics and machine learning, limited experience with deep learning
  • Programming: python, R, limited experience with Java, Pascal, C++

In my work, I like to exploit these skills and expertise optimally and develop them further, but I’m also open for new experiences and challenges in line with the two factors I have mentioned earlier.

Creative writing & performance

As a creative writer and performer, I write poetry, short stories and novels and work on new literary concepts beyond the page. I create short poetry movie clips and audio experiences. I have a lot of acting experience on the stage. I create and perform theatrical concepts related to my writing and am the 2021 Dutch National Poetry Slam Champion. My focus is on inspiring the use of our imagination to feel a sense of connection to others, and to use our imagination to combat the increasing polarisation in our society. My ambition is to grow my audience beyond readers and poetry lovers through breaking the borders between creative disciplines and collaborating with other artists.

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My past experience My current projects My future ambitions

Creative writing & performance

Past experience

Foto: Merel Hurkmans

Projects

  • In november 2020 I was involved as a guest performer in the workshop New Media & Performance at AKV St. Joost. During this workshop I worked together with students of St. Joost and Avans to create a prototype of the installation 'Speculum', a reflection on how we direct our attention to each other and to ourselves in the digital age.
  • In september 2020 I developed the short film ‘Boter, Kaas & Wetenschap’ for the International Literature Festival Utrecht. I was coached by Maartje Wortel.
  • Since januari 2019 I am a member of the writer's collective KAF. I make short poetry movies that are placed on the website of the collective. See http://kaf.online/author/monique.
  • In 2016 I developed a project adressing bullying at high schools in collaboration with Stichting Carte Blanche and based on my theatre performance ‘Symptomen’. This project was executed at Bisschop Bekkers lyceum in Eindhoven.

Development

  • As an actor, I was involved with several theatre projects aimed at creating societal impact, e.g. at Stichting Attika, Stichting Carte Blanche, Literair toneel and Ariëns wagenspel. I have taken courses in Meisner and Grotowski at acteerstudio Paul Dekker.
  • In 2019 and 2020 I took part in Poetry Circle 040, a development trajectory for poetry and performance.
  • I took courses in specific forms of theatre, including physical performance, dance and improvisation.

Performances

  • Doorlopen, poetry theatre show with Iris Penning and Berendine Venemans, Parktheater Eindhoven, September 2020
  • Besmettelijke teksten episode 3, podcast, april 2020
  • Speeches: new years speech for [prod]nu at de Nieuwe Vorst in Tilburg, January 2019
  • GLOW: performance as a part of Jouw licht op licht, Eindhoven, November 2017
  • Dutch Design Week: performance as part of Switchlight, Eindhoven, October 2017
  • Theater de Garage: solo theatre play ‘Wij kunnen er toch ook allemaal niks aan doen’, Venlo, January 2017
  • Pesthuys Podium: solo theatre play ‘Wij kunnen er toch ook allemaal niks aan doen’, Maastricht, January 2017
  • Festival de Oversteek: solo theatre play ‘Wij kunnen er toch ook allemaal niks aan doen’, Nijmegen, September 2016
  • Geleen On Stage: solo theatre play ‘Wij kunnen er toch ook allemaal niks aan doen’, Geleen, July 2016
  • Pand P: solo theatre play ‘Wij kunnen er toch ook allemaal niks aan doen’, Eindhoven, April 2016
  • ECI cultuurfabriek: solo theatre play ‘Symptomen’, Roermond, March 2015
  • eFFect Festival: solo theatre play ‘Symptomen’, Vlijmen, August 2014
  • Fringe festival: solo theatre play ‘Symptomen’, Delft, June 2014
  • Theater Vleuterweide: solo theatre play ‘Symptomen’, Vleuten, March 2014
  • Finals Solo’s in Zuid: solo theatre play ‘Laf’, Tilburg, June 2013, first prize
  • Café Theaterfestival: solo theatre play ‘Laf’, Tilburg, June 2013
  • TAC: solo theatre play ‘Laf’, Eindhoven, July 2012

Awards

  • El Hizjra literature award prose 2021, October 2021
  • Dutch national championship Poetry Slam 2021, September 2021: first place
  • U-slam yearly finals: first place
  • Dutch national championship Poetry Slam 2020, September 2020: fourth place
  • Festinal Lente Poëzieslag, October 2020: jury award and audience award, kwalification for the yearly finals
  • Poetry slam Eindhoven, July 2020: audience award
  • Dichtslamrap, January 2020: audience award and winner of the battle
  • Borderlines slam, October 2019: first prize, kwalification for the international yearly finals
  • U-slam, October 2019: first prize, kwalification for the yearly finals
  • Festina Lente poëzieslag yearly finals, June 2019: audience award
  • Bellum Poetica, January 2019: jury award, kwalification for the Dutch national championship poetry slam
  • Solo's in Zuid monologues contest: first prize

Publications

  • Retrospectieven, collection of poems with art work by Lilia Scheerder printed on a View-Master reel, to be viewed in stereoscopic 3D
  • Furniture love, short story promoting the writing competition ‘Living with and after COVID-19’, July 2020
  • Het sluimerende bestralingsapparaat, poem in collaboration with four other finalists of the Dutch national championship Poetry Slam, digitaal cultureel magazine De Optimist.
  • Wobby #21, Utter Failure, preface, May 2020
  • Debutantenschrijfwedstrijd 2020, Longlist (2x poetry and poetry slam video)
  • Vrijspraak, bloemlezing poëzie (4 poems), January 2020, ISBN 978-90-830418-1-0
  • Reset, novel, September 2019, ISBN 9789402196757
  • Verbinding verbroken, bestemming bereikt, Novel, December 2016 (previously published by uitgeverij Boekscout, November 2014), ISBN 9789402155693
  • Cognito Concepts, monthly blogpost on AI, 2010-2011
  • Het Sleutelgat, weekly post in Cursor (university news paper TU/e), 2007-2008
  • What’s up, monthly column in Cursor (university news paper TU/e), 2006-2010
  • See monique-hendriks.nl for a full portfolio

Creative writing & performance

Current projects

Foto: Patrick Post

Projects

  • Voordat ik vergeet (Before I forget), novel with 3D drawings, ongoing project, in collaboration with Dirk van Dulmen and Elise Talgorn
  • Bobby gaat in bad (Bobby takes a bath), a magical poetical bath book for grown-ups, ongoing project, in collaboration with Maarten Berkers
  • Multimedia stories, combining different forms of storytelling including text, audio, animation and film, ongoing project
  • Retrospectieven, poetry in a View-Master, ongoing project, in collaboration with Lilia Scheerder and Bas Berends
  • De verloren tijd episode 19, podcast, november 2021
  • Windows to the world, signpainter festival, september 2021

Development

I am currently one of the spoken word talents selected for the UC Masters program. In this program, self-made talents in several urban culture disciplines receive support to shape their own development program during a 2 year trajectory. My focus during this development trajectory is on multidisciplinary work including theatre, video, dance, voice, poetry, story telling and visual art. I intend to develop myself as a multidisciplinary maker as well as collaboration partner.

Performances

  • Festival Hongerige wolf, Hongerige wolf, july 2023
  • Dichters in de Prinsentuin, Haaren, july 2023
  • Spraakwater @Co-Co festival, Eindhoven, june 2023
  • Festival of Poetry Shaped Art, Eindhoven, may 2023
  • Onuitgesproken, Eindhoven, february 2023
  • Land van Altena poetry slam guest performance, Nieuwendijk january 2023
  • Mensen Zeggen Dingen, Antwerpen, november 2022
  • You On Stage, Turnhout, october 2022
  • Explore the North, Bundelpresentatie Controversiële diersoort, Leeuwarden, october 2022
  • Nacht van de poëzie, poëziecentrale Proces-Verbaal, october 2022
  • Vest in de stad, Alkmaar, october 2022
  • AMAI meetup, Culemborg, september 2022
  • Totaal festival, Bladel, july 2022
  • Jams and Gems, Eindhoven, july 2022
  • Festival Hongerige Wolf, Hongerige wolf, july 2022
  • Stadsdichter inauguratie Heerlen, Heerlen, april 2022
  • Poëziecentrum, Nijmegen, april 2022
  • AMAI awards uitreiking, Culemborg, march 2022
  • Niks Nieuws show, Eindhoven, march 2022
  • Plotscast #15, podcast, january 2021
  • 1m2 podium, Breda, august 2021
  • Ruigoord, Amsterdam, july 2021
  • Typisch Eindhoven, podcast, august 2021
  • The Stage, Pand P Eindhoven, august 2021

Awards

  • De Gedichtenwedstrijd 2022, poetry, top 100
  • El Hizjra literatuurprijs 2021, proza, first prize
  • Nederlands Kampioenschap Poetry Slam 2021, first prize
  • Borderlines poetry slam Heerlen, september 2021, audience award, kwalification for the international yearly finals in Aken, november 2021
  • Poetry slam U-Slam Utrecht yearly finals, september 2021, audience award, kwalification for the Dutch national championship poetry slam
  • Festina Lente poetry slam Amsterdam yearly finals, august 2021
  • Poetry slam Schiedam yearly finals, july 2021, jury award
  • Poetry slam Schiedam, june 2021, jury award, kwalification for the yearly finals

Publications

Creative writing & performance

Future ambitions

Foto: Willem Wouterse

Ambition

My ambition as a writer is to go beyond the page and beyond the standard spoken word performance. Examples of this are my intentions to create a theatre performance with elements of poetry, physical performance and dance as well as a spoken word clown act. Furthermore, I am currently working on concepts for taking stories and poetry beyond the page through using multimedia storytelling elements. My vision is to inspire the use of imagination with my work. Contemporary literature shows a shift towards realism, demonstrated in the popularity of non-fiction books as well as a focus on personal struggle in poetry and spoken word. While this is of course relevant work, in my opinion one of our human strengths lies in the capacity to imagine a future that is different from today and to imagine ourselves in the shoes of another. As such, imagination can be the driver to combat increasing polarisation and help us to envision potential future consequences of our behaviors today (e.g. with respect to the environmental challenges we face). This drives me to strive for a stronger spark of imagination for my audience, as well as to broaden my audience beyond the spoken word and reader scene by breaking the borders between creative disciplines and collaborating with other artists.

Development

With the UC Masters program, I intend to further develop my acting skill, focusing specifically also on camera acting, but also different ways of training my body and voice as well as developing myself as a strong partner for multi-disciplinary collaborations. The latter, I will do through developing a stonger basis in

  • Storyboarding, directing, camera work and editing for film
  • Visual thinking
  • Working with different materials (beyond the page)
but also through experimenting with multidisciplinary collaborations (see projects below).

Planned performances

  • Currently, I am working together with two other poets on a theatre performance combining elements of theatre, poetry and dance.
  • I plan to work together with professional clown coaches on a spoken word clown performance.

Projects

  • I intend to continue with the Retrospectieven View-Master project combining images and poetry in 3D in a View-Master slide. I intend to create two more slides working with different visual artists. The next slide will contain a collaboration with a photographer.
  • Multimedia stories: After having completed a first no-budget multimedia story experiment containing video, audio, animation and writing, I intend to create more multimedia stories involving other professional artists to contribute to the video, audio and animation parts of the story.
  • As a next concept in my portfolio for tangible imagination inspiring publications beyond the page, I intend to create a poetry bath book.

Planned publications

  • Voordat ik vergeet, novel, awaiting editing work
  • De vierde dimensie, 3D View-Master poetry slide
  • Jacuzzi-poetry, a poetry bath book
  • Manifest van een Millennial, novel, advanced draft stage

Research into Human Centered AI for Clinical Decision Support

As a research scientist, I have an education in Cognitive Science as well as Computer Science and Engineering. I started working at Philips research in 2011.

I am currently working on user interaction with clinical decision support (CDS) in the intensive care unit (ICU) in the context of a PhD trajectory together with Máxima Medical Centre and TU/e.

My ambition is to come up with a design for a CDS system in the ICU that supports collaboration among physician and CDS to improve the decision-making process with special emphasis on the physician's reasoning process as well as the fit within the ICU environment and the team dynamics in this environment.

In the past, I have worked on motivating people to make lifestyle changes through technology, helping cancer patients to understand their condition and make informed decisions together with the physician and making predictive models for treatment and diagnosis in oncology.

Research into Human Centered AI

Past experience

Foto: Erwin Troost

Summary

  • From 2014 to 2019, I worked as a researcher in the Oncology Solutions department at Philips Research. I conducted research into predictive models for cancer care, patient centered support tools and dashboards for decision support for physicians.
  • From 2011 until 2014, before I started focussing on the topic of interaction with Artificial Intelligence, I worked on user-system interaction through formal modeling and simulation of psychological processes as well as unobtrusive user profiling techniques through machine learning, reasoning, etc., as a research scientist in the Human Interaction and Experiences research group at Philips Research.

Education

In 2010 I received two Master of Science degrees after finishing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven:

  • Master Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Specialisation: Cognitive Science Thesis: A cognitive agent model for mindreading Diploma 16/06/2010 Judicium: Cum Laude Publication: Monique Hendriks and Jan Treur. 2010. Modeling super mirroring functionality in action execution, imagination, mirroring, and imitation. In Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume PartI (ICCCI'10), Jeng-Shyang Pan, Shyi-Ming Chen, and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Vol. PartI. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 330-342.
  • Master Computer Science and Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Specialisation: Formal Methods Thesis: A formal language for cognitive agent models Diploma 29/11/2010 Judicium: Cum Laude

As a student, I was involved in several committees of GEWIS, the study association for mathematics and computer science students of the TU/e. In 2005/2006, I was the vice-president of the board of this study association. I was involved in organising the National Computer Science Conference, a collaboration among several study associations of computer science throughout the Netherlands. I was involved in organising the introduction week for mathematics and computer science students. I was a student member of the faculty council. I wrote a column and articles for Cursor, the university news paper of the TU/e. I was involved in the development of a theatre show for promoting the computer science degree. I was a student assistant, involved in supporting several classes and informing high school students about the degree of computer science. And finally, I did scouting for recruitment agency YER.

Projects

  • Radiotherapy treatment decision support: Decision support for the radiotherapy department. Combining dose information with patient and disease information to support the complex process of decision-making in radiotherapy involving trade-offs among survival, side effects, cost, patient preferences and quality of life. My tasks: cognitive task analysis, workflow analysis, interviewing users. Results: mock-ups of a dashboard for decision support.
  • Oncology Analytics: Decision support for the tumor board (multi-disciplinary team meeting). Harvesting insights from local data in the hospital through clustering. My tasks: data analysis. Results: algorithms implemented in the R programming language.
  • Patient engagement: Decision support for prostate cancer patients. Shared decision-making, taking patient preferences into consideration. My tasks: implementing prediction models from literature in Python, research into preference elicitation and user profiling w.r.t. information needs and (shared) decision-making.
  • EURECA: Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care: an FP7-ICT co-funded program. My tasks: developing a model for predicting Serious Adverse Events within the EURECA framework, working together with a pediatric oncologist at the Saarland University Hospital. Results: Framework for Serious Adverse Events prediction implemented in WPF.
  • Situated Coaching: Development of an automated coaching system for physical activity/healthy lifestlye coaching. My tasks: development of a formal language for specifying the reasoning processes of coaches, research into motivation and behavior change. Results: Specification of the formal language.
  • SmarcoS: Artemis funded European collaboration focussed on interusability (usability aspects in a multi-device, interconnected system). My tasks: leading a work package.
  • Ambient Intelligence: extensive user profiling through machine learning techniques. My tasks: specification of a reinforcement learning algorithm.

Publications

  • Hendriks, Monique, et al. "Data Visualization in Clinical Practice." Data Science for Healthcare. Springer, Cham, 2019. 289-304.
  • Consoli, Sergio, et al. "Improving Clinical Subjects Clustering by Learning and Optimizing Feature Weights." International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. Springer, Cham, 2018.
  • Consoli, Sergio, et al. "Improving Support Vector Machines Performance Using Local Search." International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data. Springer, Cham, 2017.
  • Consoli, Sergio, et al. "Towards an automated method based on Iterated Local Search optimization for tuning the parameters of Support Vector Machines." arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03191 (2017).
  • Hendriks M. (2016). "Support for the Inclusion of Domain Knowledge in Prediction Models - User Evaluations of a Tool for Generating Prediction Models for Serious Adverse Events in Oncology". In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 183-188. DOI: 10.5220/0005656201830188
  • Monique Hendriks, Norbert Graf, and Njin-Zu Chen, "A Framework for the Creation of Prediction Models for Serious Adverse Events" 2014 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Page 17-23
  • Hekler, E.; Klasnja, P.; Traver, V.; Hendriks, M., "Realizing Effective Behavioral Management of Health: The Metamorphosis of Behavioral Science Methods," Pulse, IEEE , vol.4, no.5, pp.29,34, Sept. 2013, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6603401&isnumber=6603365
  • M. Hendriks, V. Antila and T. Lavrysen, 2012, Inter-usability and Intelligent Communication: Usability Aspects in a Multidevice Personal Attentive System, Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Infrastructures (WAmIi), p15-18, http://alexandria.tue.nl/repository/books/755360.pdf - Monique Hendriks and Jan Treur. 2010. Modeling super mirroring functionality in action execution, imagination, mirroring, and imitation. In Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume PartI (ICCCI'10), Jeng-Shyang Pan, Shyi-Ming Chen, and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Vol. PartI. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 330-342.\

Patent applications

  • Hendriks, Monique, Jacek Lukasz Kustra, and Sandra Vosbergen. "System and method for providing model-based predictions of quality of life implications of a treatment via individual-specific machine learning models." U.S. Patent Application No. 17/053,954.
  • Consoli, S., Hendriks, M., Vos, P.C., Kustra, J.L., Mavroeidis, D., Hoffmann, R. (2019) EP 3 460 807 A1 "Subject clustering method and apparatus."
  • - Mavroeidis, D., Hendriks, M. Vos, P.C., Consoli, S., Kustra, J.L., Janssen, J., Hoffmann, R. (2019) EP 3 460 723 A1 "Evaluating input using a deep learning algorithm."
  • - Kustra, J.L., Hendriks, M., Vos, P.C., Consoli, S., Mavroeidis, D., Van Wissen, A., Van Halteren, A.T. (2019) EP 3 407 226 A1 "An apparatus and method for providing feedback to a participant of a communication."
  • - Vos, P.C., Hoffmann, R., Hendriks, M. (2019) EP 3 573 072 A1 "Performing a prognostic evaluation."
  • - Hendriks, M., De Pee, J., Dadlani, P. (2019) EP 3 584 796 A1 "Determining medical treatment preferences."
  • - Hendriks. M. (2018) WO/2018/154128 "SELECTING A CRITERION FOR DETERMINING WHICH SUBJECTS TO INCLUDE IN A MEDICAL TRIAL"
  • - Riistama, J.M., Hendriks, M., Korst, J.H.M. (2017) US 2017 / 0344713 A1 "Device, system and method for assessing information needs of a person"
  • - Hendriks, M., Van Halteren, A., Wang, L. (2014) US 2014/0272844 A1, "METHOD FOR INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD TO INDUCE BEHAVOR CHANGE IN A LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM"
  • - Van Dantzig, S., Barbieri, M., Speelpenning, T., Hendriks, M. (2014) US 2014/0276243 A1 "Behavioral risk analyzer and application that estimates the risk of performing undesired behavior"

Research into Human Centered AI

Current projects

Foto: Patrick Post

Summary

As of September 2019, I am a user interaction research scientist at Philips Research and involved in the initiation of a cognitive engineering research team. My personal expertise and ambition can be found in the area of interaction with Artificial Intelligence, more specifically in the area of clinical decision support. I have built up knowledge about human judgment, naturalistic decision-making and reasoning under uncertainty and use that knowledge to develop decision support tooling tailored to the ways in which humans take decisions.I am doing this research as part of a PhD trajectory within the Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC), a collaboration between Philips, Máxima Medical Centre and the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e).

Projects

  • Advancing Cancer Care and Cardiac Care Through Interpretable AI (ACACIA): The ACACIA project aims to advance cancer and cardiac care with AI, taking a patient-centered and physician-centered approach to address unresolved challenges that hamper adoption of AI in clinical practice. This project is a collaboration between Philips, Máxima Medical Centre and TU/e. Within this project, I fulfill a PhD position, working together with 2 other PhD's on introducing AI driven Clinical Decision Support (CDS) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). I will be focusing on how to design CDS such that it fosters collaboration between AI and medical staff, taking into account the reasoning processes of the medical staff as well as the workflow and team dynamics. Furthermore, I will be developing a measure for evaluating the impact of such CDS on the decision-making. A more detailed account of my research proposal can be found in this Frontiers publication.
  • Hemodynamic solutions: The hemodynamic solutions project within Philips Research aims at providing integrated solutions for decision support in the ICU throughout the care path. By integrating data sources, we provide better overviews of the meriad of data points in the ICU and we create opportunities for data analysis to generate predictions to support the monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of the hemodynamic status of patients. Withing this project, I conduct qualitative user research including observation, facilitation of simulation studies and interviews. This qualitative user research should lead to models of the reasoning process, interactions with the environment and team dynamics. These models should inform the design of our solutions.
  • IP Generation on interaction with AI: In this project, we use story telling methodology to create rapid prototypes of methods for interacting with AI including advanced user interaction methodology such as gaze tracking, gesture control, voice control, AR/VR and virtual agents. As a creative writing expert, I facilitate workshops and contribute to the IP generation.
  • The future of UI: In our Philips internal innovation brief on the future of UI, I contributed to providing an overview of research challenges, state of the art and trends in human-centered AI.

Research into Human Centered AI

Ambition

Foto: Merel Hurkmans

Research into User Interaction with AI for Clinical Decision Support

In my research into user interaction with AI in the intensive care unit, my ambition is to come up with a concrete concept for Clinical Decision Support that supports human-machine collaboration by facilitating the incorporation of facts and data-driven learnings provided by an AI algorithm into the human reasoning process. The idea is to provide support in the reasoning where machine reasoning surpasses human reasoning, while facilitating exploitation of human reasoning strengths such as holistic reasoning, flexibility and empathy.

The CDS concept should be value-aware, actively supporting the medical staff in considering tradeoffs in human values in the care of their patients. The envisioned concept uses a conversational AI approach to enable the CDS to become value-aware and story structures to help the user integrate facts and data-driven learnings provided by the CDS with their own value judgemetns in a natural way.

An important question that needs to be answered during the trajectory of this research is: How will we measure the success of a value-aware, conversational and narrative CDS? In order to know whether the decision-making process has improved, we need to understand the values that are involved, both the professional values of the physician as well as the personal values of the patient and to balance them with society’s values. We need to define some measure of balance among the utilitarian and the deontological perspective in medical decision-making.

A more in depth decription of my research proposal can be found in this Frontiers publication

Portfolio

Foto: Bas Berends

About me

I am a scientist, writer, actrice and theatre maker. I love to search for unlikely connections: between people, disciplines, concepts and words. Due to my versatile background, I speak the languages of different disciplines, which enables me to bring expertises together and to see opportunities that pass the borders of the separate disciplines.

As scientist, I work from a background education in computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, but I also use my expertise as a creative writer and actrice to think about the future of human interaction with Artificial Intelligence, for example by using storytelling and investigating the role of the human body in said interaction. In my work, I bring together doctors (the end users), ethicists, data analysts and designers to come to a solution that secures the human values in the interaction with machines.

As a writer, actrice and theatre maker I have always focussed on the vulnerability and the fallibility of being human. My main topics of exploration are the fluidity of identity: how we continuously change by what happens around us and how little control we actually have over our own actions and our existence.

In 2014 I made a theatre show on this topic: Symptomen. In this show, I investigated my role as a victim of bullying in the system of bullying at high school. I have played this show for high school students. After seeing my show, the students participated in workshops offered by Stichting Carte Blanche.

Poetry slam

In the second round of the finals of the Dutch national championship Poetry slam in 2020, I performed a piece in which I take my audience on a tour through the unrest that I experienced in my home and in my head during the lock-down.

In the first round, I bring an ode to mothers who are just a little bit too caring, who forget about themselves so much that their children never learn to take care of themselves.

Poetry films

In the poetry film Tast zin, I search for a translation of what my senses experience to who I am. How do my perceptions influence my identity? Is there even something like an identity if a series of perceptions can give me the feeling that there is no room for a self?

In Vooroordelen over de dood I investigate to what extent memories have a right to exist. How long should I hold on to them? Do I owe it to them to hold on? How long can I keep that up?

Quarantaine is a reflection on judgement. What happens if we are able to let go of judgement? Do we dare to make ourselves vulnerable, to risk that we will be hurt for a chance to feel truly loved?

Foto: Merel Hurkmans

Podcasts

With musician Sybren van Doesem, singer-songwriter Iris Penning and presentor Wordbits, I explore the vulnerability and confusion which make us human in Plotscast #15. This podcast is a recording of a live and mostly improvised interplay between Sybren, Iris en myself.

Development

Both in my role as scientist as well as in my role as writer, actrice and theatre maker, I have initiated a development to fight for showing vulnerability and using imaginatino. In Western Culture, we find it important to demonstrate confidence and to stick to our principles no matter what. In such a culture, I would love to see us face the things that we do not understand. As a vulnerable scientist, I would like to show that there is a lot that I do not understand. Recognizing what you do not understand is the first step towards finding new opportunities. The second step is to search for answers, not only by collecting data, but also by using our imagination to create a story. The third step is to start experimenting based on that story. This third step again requires vulnerability and an open mind. In a time where we are continuously overloaded with information and where everying is fast, flashing and loud, it is extremely difficult to find the time, tranquility and the space to nurture our vulnerability and imagination. Therefore, I want to experiment with combinations of digital and physical media: by grabbing attention in the digital space, I want to create curiosity so that my audience moves into a physical space where the story is continued, in a tangible and slower manifestation. Such a physical manifestation generates mental space and allows for a level of concentration that is more fit to reflect. The first step that I am taking, is to present my poetry not only in performances and videos, but also in a 3D View-Master. I have asked visual artist Lilia Scheerder to make the images in this project. This sketch is an example of the combination of text and image that we envision. When this design is presented in the View-Master, the text will pop out in front of the image and there are 3D layers in the image as well.

In September 2021, I won the Dutch National Championship Poetry Slam. The jury praised my use of imagination. Jury member Anne Vegter added to that: 'Hendriks is a voice that will develop, she will become a great poet.' (quote translated from Dutch)

Podcast series De Verloren Tijd (Lost Time) challenged me to create an audio piece inspired by a sound clip. (Spoken in Dutch)

In Te ver (too far), I left my comfort zone (before this, my photo archive contained just five selfies) and I used selfies to reflect on how judgement plays a role in my life. How do I let judgement of others influence me and what does my own judgement cause in others?

I wrote Wat als? as a first reaction on the lock-down. I read and heard stories of people who experienced the lock-down as an impuls to slow down. This is a development that is in line with my wish for the future of humanity. However, in myself I noticed a development that was going in the other direction. For me, this has been a very restless period. The place where I could always find tranquility - home - was all of a sudden turned into a place where it seemed impossible to ever find peace again. It became my office, cafeteria, sports club, bar and workshop space. A seemingly endless stream of packages was initiated. Neighbors argued all day. And every moment of the day someone, somewhere, was talking to a screen.

I wrote this text based on music by Jordi de Backer.

In the movie 'Boter, Kaas en Wetenschap' (Butter, cheese and science*), I explicitly connect my role as a scientist to my role as an artist for the first time. Boter, Kaas en Wetenschap is an exploration of how art and science battle each other in the search for thé truth. Sophie and Alan play a game. Alan tries to win by following the rules, Sophie by changing them.

I made this movie for ILFU Fringe and in collaboration with filmmaker Bob Schellens and actor Johnny Mirer.

*Butter, chees and eggs is the literal translation of the Dutch term for Tic-Tac-Toe

In the workshop New Media & Performance, I worked on a prototype of the installation Speculum, together with students of AKV St. Joost and Avans and under supervision of Noud Heerkens. Speculum is a reflection on how we deal with attention for each other and for ourselves in the digital age.

Video-editing by Matija Pekić.

For the Center Humans and Technology, I wrote the short story Furniture love about the role of technology in the post-Covid future era.

In the project Windows to the World, under supervision of Jasper van Es, I created designs for text to be painted on windows in the city center of Eindhoven, together with sign painters Niels Bakkerus and Guy Verbeek. Niels painted a text about vacancy of buildings due to the rise of online shopping on the vacant building that used to house the Hema store. Niels and Guy collaborated on the painting of a text about the connecting role of music above the entrance of the Dynamo building.