RAPPID 2026 – Program
Day 1: 25 June 2026
| Room 1 | |
| 9:30 | Introduction |
| 10:00 | Keynote: Reimagining Research–Practice Relations: Lessons from the Dutch Delta By: Koen van Turnhout |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:15 | Workshop: Algorithmic Affordances: Building a Pattern Library By: Marissa Berk & Bart Jan Hoekman |
| 12:45 | Lunch + Poster presentations Sem Nolan Meijerink and Madelon van Oostrom: Fostering reciprocity and participant agency in qualitative UX research Robin van den Bogaard: Liking and Profiling, Same Difference Maria Wolters: The Problem with Urban Problem Reporting Bart Jan Hoekman, Karine Cardona, Marissa Berk, Koen van Turnhout and Aletta Smits: Mapping Decisions Contexts for algorithmic affordances: a discussion poster. |
| 13:30 | Full Paper presentations: 12 min per presentation + Q&A with all authors afterwards 1. Mamta Sharma: From Insight to Implementation: Lessons on Academia-Industry (online presentation) 2. Nhi Nguyen Thuy Le, Fred de Jong, Davide Ceneda and Mathias Funk: Externalizing Design Rationale through a Metaphorical Twin Context 3. Bart Jan Hoekman, Karine Cardona, Marissa Berk: Mapping Decision Context for Algorithmic Affordances: Dimensions 4. Kathleen Searles, Rebekah Tromble, Kim Crawford and Siena Rush: Expert Voices Together: Bridging Trauma-informed Research and Practice to 5. Favour Aladesuru, Anithamol Ashokan, Parisa Saadati and José Abdelnour-Nocera: Beyond Culture? Examining the Limits of Cultural Dimensions in 6. Gordon Montgomery: UX, AI and human resilience |
| 15:00 | Break (RAPPID) + members’ meeting (MMI-members) |
| 15:30 | MMI Platform X RAPPID conference: with presentations by: – Govert Schoof: Outside inside: indoor maps, smart buildings and geo-AI in the field. – Laurens Reinke: Physical Twinning in Operation Theatres – Mark Peter Steenhuis and Arnold Boekema: Avatars as natural conversational partners in training programs for health professionals |
| 16:45 | Plenary – Wrap-up RAPPID 2026’s day 1 |
Conference dinner and drinks
Drinks and conference dinner are included in the conference fee. If you have not registered yet, be sure to talk to our invaluable support staff on Thursday.
We will have drinks and dinner at the NOK-restaurant in Groningen.The address is: Nieuwe Markt 1, 9712 KN Groningen. 13 Minute walk from the conference venue.
We are welcome 18:00 onwards.
Day 2: 26 June 2026
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 9:30 | Workshop: Knowledge Products by Koen van Turnhout & Marieke Zielhuis | Workshop: Mapping the Paths: A Comparative Workshop on Academic and Industry UX by: Serhat Altın, Yeşim Tohumcu and Tanya Meriam Sunny |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 | Lightning talks: 3-5 minutes per talk Marieke De Vogel, Jasper Jeurens & Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer: Staging Digital Friction Rhied Al-Othmani & Marissa Berk: From the Classroom to the Professional Field: Challenges in Applied Design Higher Education Xander Roozen: What is UX when code is cheap Ivo Bril-Broers: No Context No Service Aletta Smits: Our partners leave before the grant arrives | |
| 11:30 | Just a talk 10 minutes per talk with Q&A with all authors afterwards Nina Smit: The Reality of Enterprise UX at NS: Challenges and Opportunities when Designing Software Lade Tawak & Talita Collares: Value Sensitive Design in the Wild: Implementing Ethical Design Yu Sugiyama: Personal data across life stages Nathalie Stembert & Maaike Harbers: Working with Algorithmic Affordances in Design & Development Education And a short discussion: Madelon van Oostrom: A blueprint for an approach to digital inclusion with ID-wallet technology. Q&A with all authors | |
| 12:45 | Lunch + Poster presentations | |
| 13:45 | Workshop: Activating practitioners to connect research and practice: mapping their efforts as translators, redesigners, and ambassadors by: Marieke Zielhuis & Koen van Turnhout | Workshop: The Method Marketplace by: Ruben Logjes |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:30 | Just a talk 10 minutes per talk with Q&A with all authors afterwards Renato Monteiro: Design choices have legal consequences Eva Gutiérrez López: From insights to implementation: how hybrid organisations reveal the need for application frameworks Koen van Turnhout: Towards a maturity scale for practice oriented research in interaction design Lade Tawak: What can academia learn from industry: the case for reverse transfer in HCI And a case study: Tarcila Broder: Reflection: Conversational AI as Decision-Making Infrastructure for Asylum Seekers Q&A with all authors | |
| 16:45 | Plenary – Wrap-up RAPPID 2026 | |