Antoine van de Ven
Drs. Antoine van de Ven holds a Master's degree (with honor 'met genoegen') in Physics and Astronomy from Utrecht University. From 1997 to 2008 he worked for several organizations and companies on many award-winning innovative projects. He has experience as Software Engineer, Project Manager, Researcher, Technical Director and Lecturer.
He now teaches and is doing PhD research at Fontys University of Applied Sciences and is affiliated with the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is doing research in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with the goal to design a new kind of intelligent agent (for smart objects, environments, robots or toys) that can exhibit exploratory and playful behaviour. This is done by modeling surprise and implementing artificial intrinsic motivations such as curiosity to drive the learning and interactions (Curiosity-Driven Interaction). This could lead to new adaptive and interactive systems with open-ended learning and development capabilities that can autonomously adjust and learn from new and changing situations.
Scientific Publications and International Conference Presentations:
Ben A.M. Schouten, Rob Tieben, Antoine van de Ven and David W. Schouten, Human Behavior Analysis in Ambient Gaming and Playful Interaction, In Guide to Computer Analysis of Human Behavior, 1st Edition., 2011
Antoine van de Ven, Anne-mie Sponselee and Ben Schouten, Robo M.D.: A Home Care Robot for Monitoring and Detection of Critical Situations
Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), August 2010, doi:10.1145/192300.1962391
Antoine van de Ven, Robo M.D.: A Home Care Robot for Monitoring and Detection of Critical Situations,
IEEE-RAS/IFRR Scholarship, Summer School of Robotic Science on Social and Cognitive Robotics - SOCORO 2010, Iasi, Romania
Antoine van de Ven and Ben A.M. Schouten, A minimum relative entropy principle for AGI,
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Advances in Intelligent Systems Research, March 2010, doi:10.2991/agi.2010.26
Antoine van de Ven. A minimum relative entropy principle for the brain.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Venice, Italy, November 2009
Lund University Cognitive Studies, 145, 2009.
A.A.J. van de Ven, "Superluminal signal velocities without causality violations"
The Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 13-15, 2008
A.A.J. van de Ven, "A space-time formalism with negative mass"
The Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 9-11, 2006.
A.A.J. van de Ven, "Deriving relativity without using the principle of relativity"
Logic in Hungary, Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society, Budapest, Hungary, August 5-10, 2005
Antoine van de Ven, "V2_Jam; Research on combining and integrating open source media software"
Freestyle - FLOSS In Design, Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 19th, 2004
A.A.J. van de Ven, "The principle of absolute simultaneity: Testing the conventionality of simultaneity"
The First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 11-14, 2004.
Antoine van de Ven, "V2_Jam, Mixing media and mixing software"
Piksel Conference, Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, in Bergen, Norway, November 3-9, 2003
Awards:
1989: Finalist and Second place (among all Dutch 11th graders) at National Chemistry Olympiad
1990: Finalist´De Jonge Onderzoekers´
1999: Twinning Award for ´Demi Dubbel´s teletijdmachine´-project
1999: SJP-award for best internet-site of the year (was for Logica N.V.)
2001: Two awards for FNV-site:
-Beste Kennisproduct binnen de vakbeweging
2002: -Goed Idee-prijs
2004: Award for Codex Kodanski Project: 'Waarderingsprijs van de provincie Zuid-Holland “Gezichtsbepalend”'
2005: Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Interactive Art: Honorary Mention for project Run Motherfucker Run
2005: Europrix in category Mobile Media for project Codex Kodanski
2005: First Runner-up Accelerating Change 2005 Robotics Idea Contest
2006: ESEC Comenius award for Creative Learning programma Waag Society
2006: Erasmus EuroMedia Award for Waag Society
2010: IEEE/ROS Scholarship
