Dr Ike Kamphof (D.J.)

My current research focuses on how new media and technologies transform networks of care. I have done research into the care for vulnerable elderly people and dementiacare, and into nature conservation. 

Currently I am projectleader of the researchproject Make-Believe Matters. The Moral Role Things Play in Dementia Care. (ZonMW, 2016-2018; together with dr. Ruud Hendriks and prof. dr. Tsjalling Swierstra). This project investigates how low and high tech interventions in dementia care mediate care practices and the values embedded in them, in particular values challenged by deception: authenticity, trust, dignity, autonomy and integrity.

https://www.zonmw.nl/nl/onderzoek-resultaten/kwaliteit-van-zorg/programmas/project-detail/ethiek-en-gezondheid-2012-2015/make-believe-matters-the-moral-role-things-play-in-dementia-care/

From 2010-2012 I participated in the project Beyond Autonomy and Language; Towards a Disability Studies Perspective on Dementia (ZonMW; together with dr. Ruud Hendriks, Annette Hendrikx MA, dr. Aagje Swinnen). This project investigated innovative practices in which people with dementia were enabled to emerge as persons with their own unique identity. My part in this project focused on telecare applications and sociable robots. 

From 2006 onward, part of my research focusses on webcamera's. Webcams are widely used as the contact points between real and virtual spaces. I investigate the ways in which webcams evoke co-presence and foster global relationships.
in e.g. nature conservation and the care for elderly family members.

My main methodology is practical phenomenology, with an emphasis on perception as the experience of embodied beings.

Participatory observation and virtual ethnography are tools employed to study user practices.

I published a book of essays (In Dutch) on everyday structures of voyeurism (in travel, on the street and in social networks, in surveillance and while watching animals):

Ike Kamphof (2013) Iedereen Voyeur. Kijken en bekeken worden in de 21e eeuw. Zoetermeer: Klement.

http://www.uitgeverijklement.nl/shop_details.php?productId=24161

For a Dutch introduction into this book, see

http://www.filoblog.nl/2013/03/04/hoe-bewonen-we-kijkend-en-ziend-onze-omgeving-door-ike-kamphof/

The relationship between aesthetics and ethics, my main focuspoints in my research, is prominently present in the early aesthetics of the 18th and 19th century. In my translation of Kant's Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (2006) I explore this theme in the introduction (and commentary). 

I. Kant Opmerkingen over het gevoel voor het schone en het sublieme. Budel: Damon, 2006. Vertaling, inleiding en aantekeningen Ike Kamphof. ISBN 9055736627. 144pp.

• Kamphof, D. J. (2016). "Real Time": On the Whereabouts of Time in New Media. The Case of Webcams. In N. Vandeusen (Ed.), Time: Sense, Space, Structure (pp. 388-410). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004312319_020

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2017). A Modest Art. Securing Privacy in Technologically Mediated Homecare. Foundations of Science, 22(2), 411-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9448-5

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2016). Seeing Again. Dementia, Personhood and Technology. In E. Dominguez-Rue, & L. Nierling (Eds.), Ageing and Technology. Perspectives from the Social Sciences (pp. 163-182). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839429570-008

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2015). In the company of robots. Healthcare and the identity of people with dementia. In A. Swinnen, & M. Schweda (Eds.), Popularizing Dementia. Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness. (pp. 359-376). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839427101-017

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• Technopolis group (2016). Ethical Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems. European Parliamentary Research Service. Scientific Foresight Study https://doi.org/10.2861/68949

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• Hendriks, R. P. J., Hendrikx, A. F. C., Kamphof, D. J., & Swinnen, A. M. C. (2013). Delen in dementie: Onderzoeksreflecties. Maastricht University.

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2013). Linking Animal and Human Places. The Potential of Webcams for Species Companionship. Burgmann Journal, 2(1), 82-102. http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol2/iss1/8/

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2013). Mediating Species Companionship. On Wildlife Webcams. In I. Gevers (Ed.), Yes Naturally. How Art Saves the World (pp. 164-170). Nai010.

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2014). Sensoren en Verzorgenden. Kanttekeningen bij Technologie in de Zorg. Denkbeeld: Tijdschrift voor Psychogeriatrie, 26(oktober 2014), 26-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/S12428-014-0111-7

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• Kamphof, D. J. (2013). Iedereen Voyeur. Kijken en bekeken worden in de 21e eeuw. Uitgeverij Klement. http://www.uitgeverijklement.nl/shop_details.php?productId=24161

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