About Carlijn
Dr. Valk's research focuses on how to motivate behavior change towards attaining healthy and happy lifestyle goals among more difficult to reach target groups. Her conviction that in order to design for inclusivity we need to design inclusively, means she regularly uses many collaborative design methods throughout her design and research process. These inclusive design methods allow her to tackel barriers to research participation such as technology acceptance.
Expertise areas:
User and Society; Business and entrepreneurship
Keywords and specific areas:
Behavior change, motivation, healthy and happy lifestyles, active aging
