TamaCoachee: a virtual coachee in your pocket
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TamaCoachee: a virtual coachee in your pocket

TamaCoachee is a play on words. It’s a reference to the Tamagotchi of the ‘90s where you had to take care of a virtual animal. With the TamaCoachee you take care of a virtual coachee by being it’s/his/her coach. It’s meant as a training tool for students of Applied Psychology (and related studies) to practice coaching skills. It will look similar to using Skype for a video call, but with feedback on your interaction. We will present an early interactive prototype of this amazing new tool.

Virtual humans (Siri, Alexa, etc.) are ‘virtual humans’ that assist us in a diverse range of tasks. Virtual humans can and are being used to train social skills. Managers, psychologists, coaches, negotiators, etc. can practice on with virtual humans during their training. The benefits are great: detailed insight in participants progress, lower costs and a more homogenous experience per student compared to role playing. One of the main points of focus of the TamaCoachee is the psychological impact of ‘connecting’ real and virtual humans.

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Sebas Nouwen & Janienke Sturm Teacher & Lector Fontys HRM & Applied Psychology
Sebas Nouwen & Janienke Sturm

About Sebas Nouwen & Janienke Sturm

Sebas Nouwen (1979) is a social psychologist, specializing in decision making behavior and human technology interaction. With a focus on influencing a bigger audience and not just individual people he started out his career as a filmmaker and working in advertising. In 2007 he started as a teacher at Noorderpoort School for the arts and transitioned to teaching applied psychology at Fontys in 2012. One of his aims at Fontys is researching and promoting the integration of technology in the field of psychology.

Janienke Sturm (1974), human-computer interaction has been an important theme throughout her career. After studying Linguistics at Utrecht University, she obtained her PhD in 2005 at Radboud University Nijmegen in Language and Speech Technology. Since 2012, Janienke has been associated with the Fontys Hogeschool for HRM and Psychology as professor People and Technology. With this research group she initiates and supervises practice-oriented research at the intersection of psychology and technology. Since 2018, Janienke is coordinator for the Health theme within the Fontys focus area TEC for Society.