Joeri Van Laere
Professor of Informatics
School of Informatics
Room PA410J
Research
Publications
Projects
2025
Transferring Gaming and Simulation Experience to the Real World
2025. Chapter in book. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2755-4_4
2023
Systems
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11090469
Simulation for Participatory Education: Virtual Exchange and Worldwide Collaboration
2023. Chapter in book. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21011-2_5
Journal of Decision Systems
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2022.2057006
2022
ISIF Perspectives on Information Fusion
2022. Article.
International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS)
2022. Article.
https://doi.org/10.4018/IJKSS.305479
ISCRAM 2022 Conference Proceedings – 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2022. Conference paper.
2021
ECCE 2021: Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: "Designing Virtual and Physical Interactive Systems"
2021. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452853.3452879
Information systems management
2021. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2020.1814458
Simulation & Gaming
2021. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10468781211006751
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Ongoing projects
Digital tools for emergency care – opportunities and challenges for patients and personnel
The project studies the effect of digitisation in an emergency department from multiple perspectives. The project will map how patients find their way to the emergency department in different ways, and will investigate how the introduction of new digital solutions impacts patients and staff.
October 2023 - September 2031 DHEARPredict the healthcare needs of older adults using AI
This project aims to use AI technology to predict the care needs of older adults. By analyzing patient data, AI can detect early signs of declining health, enabling timely interventions that can prevent costly emergency care and extensive aftercare.
November 2024 - October 2027 Informatics,Virtual EngineeringPrepared to Formulate the Goal
When a crisis occurs, unexpected collaborations often emerge between various societal actors. Together, they must address the challenges that arise, but it is not always clear who should do what or who is responsible for specific tasks.
September 2022 - August 2027 InformaticsRisk reduction for ambulance and rescue service personnel in the event of unforeseen and severe events
The project aims to reduce the risks for ambulance and rescue service personnel in the event of difficult and unpredictable events. By developing a method package for digital simulation, the researchers want to improve the response leaders' ability to make joint risk assessments across organizational boundaries.
May 2024 - April 2027 InformaticsOperational procedures for the optimal use of drones in crisis management
Drones are playing an increasingly important role in crisis management and are used by authorities, volunteer organisations, and researchers. To ensure effective collaboration, common operational procedures are needed.
January 2025 - December 2026 InformaticsGPS alarms for enhanced safety and independence among older persons
Elderly are vulnerable in many ways, especially with regard to isolation and involuntary loneliness. Welfare technology can break this isolation. One example of welfare technology is personal security alarms. An issue with this type of alarms is that they increase the risk of isolation as they only work in the users’ home. Meaning that people with reduced physical function and/or cognitive impairments are at risk of becoming isolated due to fear of falling or losing their way. An alternative to these alarms is GPS alarm.
September 2023 - September 2026 DHEAR,InformaticsReal-time environmental feedback
According to international research, real-time environmental feedback can reduce electricity or water consumption by up to 50%. This project will investigate how it can be applied in Hjo Municipality.
April 2023 - September 2025 Informatics,Organising for Sustainable DevelopmentStrategy Network City Skaraborg – step 1
Skaraborg needs to transition to meet the welfare challenge, the industrial transformation, and the goal of a more sustainable development. Achieving this requires many different efforts that many different actors also carry out at various levels in a complex puzzle. The "Network City Skaraborg" strategy contains proposals on how this can be achieved.
October 2024 - June 2025 Informatics,Organising for Sustainable Development,Virtual EngineeringFinished projects
The future healthcare system in the region of Västra Götaland
The project will focus on strengthening the implementation of the transformation of health care. The aim is to use quantitative calculations, alternative scenarios and simulations to describe how skill needs, supply and delivery of healthcare in the Västra Götaland region (VGR) may change up to 2040, both as a result of external environmental factors such as demographic pressure, medical development and the internal improvement work.
March 2024 - November 2024 Informatics,Virtual EngineeringTo lead and organise for standardisation in a future healthcare information environment (FVM)
Many organizations develop their working methods and services through digitalisation, but few are part of a change process that is as extensive and complex as the introduction of "Framtidens Vårdinformationsmiljö (FVM)" in Västra-Götaland.
November 2021 - May 2024 InformaticsVirtual Simulation for Training of the Rescue Services
Rescue services have to maintain their knowledge and skills on an ongoing basis through training and examination. Training is today primarily done in instructor-led exercises on training fields. Rescue services can train a greater variety and complexity of events with virtual simulation, while fire fighters can participate from their own station without having to travel. More skills can be developed more flexibly with virtual simulation: mass-training can be realized by training more often in shorter sessions. The research project focuses on how instructors should act to use virtual simulation successfully.
July 2019 - December 2022 InformaticsELISA - for a continuous situation awareness in municipalities
In order to detect crises well in advance, the municipality needs to monitor what is happening in the world. Today there is no clear method for this: everyone does in their own way. In the ELISA project we take inspiration from a method used in the municipality's crime prevention work: Effective Collaboration for Security (EST). In this method, different organizations report each week what happens in society and assess together what trends occur and what different actors in society can do to respond to these events. What if the municipality could to continuously and systematically gather information in the same way to detect crisis?
January 2020 - December 2021 InformaticsA resilient payment system
In this project a large variety of stakeholders are enabled to explore what collective action strategies are most effective to create resilience for payment system disruptions in the food system, the fuel system, the finance system and society at large.
October 2016 - September 2021 Informatics