Publications
Dissertation
van der Burg, V. (2026). The Material Gaze: Reflective AI as a Design Practice. PhD dissertation, TU Delft.
Peer-reviewed papers
van der Burg, V., de Boer, G., Benjamin, J. J., Halperin, B. A., Akdag Salah, A., Chandrasegaran, S., & Lloyd, P. (2026). Reflective AI: A Slow Technology Approach for Design Education. CHI ’26. ACM.
van der Burg, V., de Boer, G., Akdag Salah, A., Chandrasegaran, S., & Lloyd, P. (2023). Objective Portrait: A practice-based inquiry to explore AI as a reflective design partner. DIS ’23. ACM.
van der Burg, V., Akdag Salah, A. A., Chandrasegaran, S., & Lloyd, P. (2022). Ceci n’est pas une chaise: Emerging Practices in Designer–AI Collaboration. DRS 2022, Bilbao.
Arzberger, A., van der Burg, V., Chandrasegaran, S., & Lloyd, P. (2022). Triggered: Using Human-AI Dialogue for Problem Understanding in Collaborative Design. ASME IDETC-CIE 2022.
Workshop & companion papers
van der Maden, W., van der Burg, V., Halperin, B. A., Jääskeläinen, P., Kun, P., Lomas, D., Merritt, T., Lindley, J., Okopnyi, P., Guribye, F., Lupetti, M. L., & Zhu, J. (2025). From Dead-ends to Dialogue: Third Workshop on Design Research & GenAI. DIS ’25 Companion. ACM.
van der Maden, W., van Beek, E., van der Burg, V., Halperin, B. A., Jääskeläinen, P., Kang, E., Kun, P., Lomas, J., et al. (2024). Second Workshop on Design Research & GenAI. DIS ’24 Companion. ACM.
Book chapter
van der Burg, V. (2025). Reflective and Slow AI. In Algorithmic Imaginations. ArtEZ Press.
Other & earlier
van der Burg, V. (2020). ‘Algo & I’. In Dixit Algorizmi: The Garden of Knowledge, Uzbekistan Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale.
van der Burg, V. (2019). The Incredible Story of Algo & I. MA thesis, Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.
[co-authors], van der Burg, V. (2018). Hide and seek: Directing top-down attention is not sufficient for accelerating conscious access. Cognition (neuroscience), Utrecht University.