eHealth Research, Theory and Development (ePub)

Prof. Dr. Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen is Professor in Persuasive Health Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands and Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She founded the Centre for eHealth and Wellbeing Research (www.cewr.nl). Her research focuses on the development and the implementation of persuasive eCoaching systems to increase trust, engagement and adherence to eHealth technologies, and to foster implementation of these technologies in practice.

Dr. Saskia M. Kelders is Assistant Professor at the Centre for eHealth of the University of Twente, The Netherlands and Wellbeing Research and Extraordinary Professor at the Optentia research focus area of the North-West University, South Africa.

Hanneke Kip is a PhD student at the Centre for eHealth and Wellbeing Research of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, with a background in psychology and an interest in behaviour change and improvement of mental healthcare via technology. Her current research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of eHealth technologies in forensic mental healthcare.

Prof. Dr. Robbert Sanderman is Professor in Health Psychology at both the University of Groningen and at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research focuses on psychological and social adaptation to chronic life-threatening illness and on the use of psychological interventions, including eHealth tools.