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Herre van Oostendorp

Herre van Oostendorp

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Computer Science

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Citations
7132
World Ranking
11976
National Ranking
224

Overview

Herre van Oostendorp is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Computer Science, Psychology, and Social Sciences. The scientist's work extensively covers subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Demography.

Their research topics focus on areas such as Educational Games and Gamification, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Digital Games and Media, Technology Use by Older Adults, Artificial Intelligence in Games, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning, and Environmental Education and Sustainability.

Herre van Oostendorp has contributed to several recent publications, listed with their full titles, year, and publication venues as follows:

  • AI-Induced Guidance: Preserving the Optimal Zone of Proximal Development, 2022, Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence
  • Competition in a Household Energy Conservation Game, 2021, Sustainability
  • Video Games and Attitude Change: A Meta-Analysis, 2023, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Virtual Reality Aids Game Navigation: Evidence from the Hypertext Lostness Measure, 2020, Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
  • Lost in Learning: Hypertext Navigational Efficiency Measures Are Valid for Predicting Learning in Virtual Reality Educational Games, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Chris Ferguson
  • Egon L. van den Broek
  • Wai Fu
  • Jan Dirk Fijnheer
  • Geert-Jan Giezeman

Herre van Oostendorp's publications appear in a variety of scientific venues:

  • Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence
  • Sustainability
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
  • Frontiers in Psychology

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has authored books published by Springer Nature and Frontiers Media. These include:

  • Understanding and Improving Information Search, 2020, Springer Nature
  • Developments in Implicit Measurements, 2022, Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • A meta-analytic review of the role of instructional support in game-based learning

    Pieter Wouters;Herre Van Oostendorp

  • Current Practices in Serious Game Research: A Review from a Learning Outcomes Perspective

    Pieter Wouters;Erik D. van der Spek;Herre van Oostendorp

  • Cognitive effects of a structural overview in a hypertext

    Rijk Hofman;Herre van Oostendorp

  • Overview of Instructional Techniques to Facilitate Learning and Motivation of Serious Games

    Pieter Wouters;Herre van Oostendorp

  • Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Herre van Oostendorp

  • The effects of the number of links and navigation support on cognitive load and learning with hypertext: The mediating role of reading order

    R. Ignacio Madrid;Herre Van Oostendorp;Mari Carmen Puerta Melguizo

  • Eye Movement as Indicators of Mental Workload to Trigger Adaptive Automation

    Tjerk Greef;Harmen Lafeber;Herre Oostendorp;Jasper Lindenberg

  • On the role of interaction mode and story structure in virtual reality serious games

    Chris Ferguson;Egon L. van den Broek;Herre van Oostendorp

  • The influence of screen size and text layout on the study of text

    David De Bruijn;Sjaak De Mul;Herre Van Oostendorp

  • Moses beats Adam : a semantic relatedness effect on a semantic illusion

    Herre Van Oostendorp;Sjaak De Mul

  • How competition and heterogeneous collaboration interact in prevocational game-based mathematics education

    Judith ter Vrugte;Ton de Jong;Sylke Vandercruysse;Pieter Wouters

  • Cognition in a Digital World

    Herre Van Oostendorp

  • Locating Information in an Online Newspaper

    Herre van Oostendorp;Christof van Nimwegen

  • Individual differences and behavioral metrics involved in modeling web navigation

    Ion Juvina;Herre Van Oostendorp

  • The use of scripts in text comprehension

    Martijn Den Uyl;Herre Van Oostendorp

  • Measuring learning in serious games: a case study with structural assessment

    Pieter Wouters;Erik D. van der Spek;Herre van Oostendorp

  • Modeling Semantic and Structural Knowledge in Web Navigation

    Ion Juvina;Herre van Oostendorp

  • The role of Game Discourse Analysis and curiosity in creating engaging and effective serious games by implementing a back story and foreshadowing

    Pieter Wouters;Herre van Oostendorp;Rudy Boonekamp;Erik D. Van der Spek

  • Instructional Techniques to Facilitate Learning and Motivation of Serious Games

    Pieter Wouters;Herre van Oostendorp

  • Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing

    Herre van Oostendorp

Frequent Co-Authors

Ton de Jong
Ton de Jong University of Twente
Jan Elen
Jan Elen KU Leuven
Remco C. Veltkamp
Remco C. Veltkamp Utrecht University
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
John-Jules Ch. Meyer Utrecht University
Mark A. Neerincx
Mark A. Neerincx Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Andrew Dillon
Andrew Dillon The University of Texas at Austin
Rob Koper
Rob Koper Open University in the Netherlands

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