About Michel Jansen

Michel

I live in Enschede, The Netherlands, where I study Human Media Interaction at the University of Twente. I also work at the Healthcare department at Nedap for a few days a week, where I develop mobile- and web applications. Although I have a background in Computer Science, my interests lie much broader. I am especially interested in the way people interact with various systems; especially when those systems are integrated in their lives or society as a whole. I have a passion for design, especially when it comes to physical or tangible interfaces. Check the projects page to see what I mean.

The drawback of those broad interests, are that it’s really hard to explain exactly what it is what I do. It’s much easier to explain what I am not ;)

  • I am not a programmer, but I write some occasionally mean code.
  • I am not an artist, but I know my way around Photoshop.
  • I am not a psychologist, but I am interested in human behaviour.
  • I am not a nerd, but I lack all social skills (wait, that one should have been the other way around).


When I’m not playing with technology for work or leisure, I occasionally have some time left to read some books or travel to places I haven’t been before. I also love photography and music, but as long as I’m a student I will probably be stuck with the crappy camera in my iPhone and an ancient hi fi set from the eighties ;)

Contact me

If you want to contact me, you can try some of the options below.

Email mail at micheljansen dot org
Google Talk / Jabber michel dot jansen at gmail dot com
Skype d.a.w.u.s.s.
MSN dawusss at hotmail dot com
ICQ #64 695 093