J.D. (Derek) Lomas
J.D. (Derek) Lomas
Profile
Projects
- NeuroUX: Research software for mobile cognitive assessment and experience sampling. Game-based assessment of executive functions (working memory, inhibition control, cognitive flexibility, processing speed, etc). Used by psychiatric researchers at UC San Diego, UT Austin, U Miami and Brown University.
- Zensus: An interactive system that lets doctors schedule “wellness check-ins” to patient mobile phones. This allows for data collection about patient wellbeing to support data-informed improvement.
- FactFlow: A parent-child system that uses AI to help continuously improve math fact fluency.
- Vibe Research Labs: Combines Science, Design and Artificial Intelligence to explore new possibilities in positive human experiences. Dutch Design Week, 2019
- Musical Mind Reading: Using 1000hz 128-channel EEG and machine learning to predict the music people are listening.
Expertise
Lomas has produced over 40 learning and assessment games that have been played by millions of children. His design consultancy, " Playpower Labs", provides UX design, data science and software development services.
Biography
J. Derek Lomas lives in Amsterdam with his wife and three children. He has a degree in Cognitive Science (Yale University, BA, '03), Social Design (UC San Diego, MFA, 2009) and Human-Computer Interaction (Carnegie Mellon, PhD, 2014) with a certification in Interdisciplinary Education Research (Institute of Education Sciences, 2014). He received his postdoctoral training at the UC San Diego Design Lab with Dr. Donald Norman in 2015-2016.
Awards
Social Innovation Fellowship (PopTech), Digital Media and Learning grant (MacArthur Foundation), National STEM Game Competition (Sesame Workshop & White House), Alumni of the Techstars startup incubator (NYC-Kaplan), McGinnis Business Plan Competition Winner (Carnegie Mellon), App Gap Challenge (NYC Department of Education)
Publications
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2024
Death of the Design Researcher?
Creating Knowledge Resources for Designers Using Generative AI
Willem van der Maden / Evert van Beek / Vera van der Burg / Brett A. Halperin / Petra Jääskeläinen / Eunsu Kang / Peter Kun / James Derek Lomas / Iohanna Nicenboim / More Authors -
2024
Decoding Individual and Shared Experiences of Media Perception Using CNN Architectures
Riddhi Johri / Pankaj Pandey / Krishna Prasad Miyapuram / James Derek Lomas
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2024
Developing the Healthy Actions and Lifestyles to Avoid Dementia or Hispanos y el ALTo a la Demencia program
Sara Moukarzel / Zvinka Z. Zlatar / Sheri J. Hartman / Derek Lomas / Howard H. Feldman / Sarah J. Banks
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2023
A framework for designing AI systems that support community wellbeing
W.L.A. van der Maden / J.D. Lomas / P.P.M. Hekkert
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2023
Brain Activity Recognition using Deep Electroencephalography Representation
Riddhi Johri / Pankaj Pandey / Krishna Prasad Miyapuram / Derek Lomas
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Media
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2020-05-06
MyWellnessCheck: Supporting Wellbeing During COVID19
Appeared in: News Medical
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2021-02-26
Resonance between brain and mind for better design
Appeared in: TU Delft Stories
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2021-01-26
AI, Experience and EEG
Appeared in: New Scientist