Naomi is 24 years old and is from Petten, a small village near Alkmaar and Den Helder. She loves knitting socks, baking and gardening. Naomi earned a Bachelor and Master's degree in Industrial Design from the University of Twente, where she specialized in the relationship between humans and technology. During her studies she gained design experience with different (vulnerable) groups. She will mainly work within Working Group 1 'Engaged People' as part of her PhD trajectory.

Agustín is 40 years old and was born in Mendoza, Argentina. He is an active chess player and composes ambient and experimental electronic music under the alias Chelo Agustin. He holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Leipzig and a master's degree in Art, Design, and Technology from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. He is currently pursuing a professional doctorate at Hanze University of Applied Sciences within the knowledge center for art and society and will focus on Working Group 2, "Social People."

Adri (49) lives in Groningen and works as a visual artist at the intersection of art, science and digital technologies. He enjoys plant-based cooking, canoeing and forest walks. In his interactive installations and workshops, Adri invites audiences to get creative and playful with a variety of materials and digital technologies. Adri is a lecturer in the Interrelational Art Practices study at the Frank Mohr Institute Master of Fine Arts and Design. In his Artistic PhD project, Adri investigates the impact of long-term creative and material interaction with digital technologies on mental well-being.

Thom de Groot is 27 jaar en geboren in een dorp in noord Drenthe. In zijn vrije tijd is hij bezig met sport, lezen en bordspellen. Zijn promotieonderzoek gaat over de ontwikkeling en toepassing van draagbare meetinstrumenten voor het observeren van de menselijke gezondheid in hun directe omgeving bijvoorbeeld, de werkomgeving, thuissituaties en klinische setting. Zijn werk richt zich op het evalueren en verbeteren van het gebruik van draagbare systemen voor continue monitoring, maar ook het simultaan meten van verschillende parameters. Hij heeft een masteropleiding Biomedical Engineering – Medical Device Desing afgerond aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Xueyi Wang, 32, was born in China and received his doctorate from RUG. He is an avid sports enthusiast and enjoys participating in various sports such as skiing, basketball, running and diving. These hobbies reflect his dynamic and adventurous spirit and align with his dedication to understanding and promoting health and well-being through his research. Xueyi is a postdoctoral researcher with a keen interest in the field of smart health, with a focus on learning from multimodal time series data. His work focuses on harnessing the power of different types of data to improve healthcare technologies and increase patient outcomes.

Rineke is 26 years old and lives in Groningen. She enjoys making music (playing the horn and singing), reading, baking, cycling/walking, and nature. She obtained both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Human Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen, where she conducted research on the relationship between sound production and breathing movements. She also worked for a year as a junior researcher in Arnhem, where she was involved in research into the use of technology in disability care. Her doctoral research focuses on working groups 5 "Healthy People" and 8 "Applied Toolbox."

Zijun Li, born in 1997 and from China, danced for 15 years and now practices chess She is very positive about life. Zijun completed a Bachelor's degree in Applied Psychology and a research master's degree in Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology. After her Bachelor's, she gained international experience and learned from other cultures. Her doctoral research focuses on long-term changes in healthy behavior, within Working Group 7 "Motivated People.

Channah is 26 years old and studied Biomedical Sciences in Groningen. She researched the effect of a community-based lifestyle intervention on mental and physical health in the Bloeizone Bakkeveen. After graduation, she worked as a policy advisor on infectious disease control at the GGD. For her promotion project, she is testing the toolbox that is being developed in phases in the fieldlabs as part of working group 8 'Applied Toolbox' in the Healthy Living as a Service project. Channah keeps in touch and coordinates the activities in the fieldlabs.