Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
In this seminar Professor Marcel Bastiaansen discusses methodological tools for measuring experiences and in particular how to combine (neuro)physiological measures, such as heart rate and skin conductance with self-reports of experience reconstruction. Such data allow for tracking experiences in time and, when combined with geo-positioning systems, experiences can be mapped out in both time and in space. This knowledge can be used to understand how experiences relate to well-being, and for evidence-based experience design in a wide range of leisure and tourism settings.
The School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management is pleased to host these open access seminars showcasing insightful and thought provoking research from renowned international scholars.T he seminars are of interest to academics, researchers and students. All are welcome.
Professor Marcel Bastiaansen, University of Tilburg and Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands obtained a MSc in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology (1996), and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (cum laude) in 2000, both from Tilburg University. He then moved to Nijmegen, where he held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and at Radboud University’s Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, from 2000-2013.
In 2013 Marcel joined Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), and refocused his research agenda on Leisure and Tourism. At BUas he co-founded, and is currently directing BUas’ Experience Lab. The Experience Lab does both fundamental and applied research on the role of emotions in leisure and tourism experiences, and addresses how leisure and tourism experiences relate to well-being and quality of life, amongst others.
In 2021 he was appointed full professor in Leisure and Tourism Experience at both Breda University of Applied Sciences and Tilburg University.
