Robert Jacob
is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tufts
University, where his research interests are new interaction media and
techniques and user interface software. He was also a visiting
professor at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Before coming to Tufts,
he was in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Naval Research
Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and
is a member of the editorial
board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was Papers
Co-Chair of the CHI 2001 conference.
Mike Bennett
is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Systems Research Group (SRG) in
the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD Dublin, Ireland.
Prior to joining SRG he was a research associate in the Palpable
Machines Group in Media Lab Europe, where he developed Topographic Torch
and worked on the fusion of haptics, information visualisation and
auditory displays. His research is focused on human-computer
interaction, especially how to augment individual human capabilities.
Bernd Bruegge
is university professor of computer science with a chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technische Universität München and adjunct associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Diploma from the University of Hamburg in 1978, his masters of science in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1985 from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include software architectures for dynamic systems, agile software development processes, and software engineering education. His educational focus is on how to teach students software development competence by involving them in the development of large complex systems for real clients.
Lars Erik Holmquist
is leader of the Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute in Göteborg, Sweden. His current research projects include mobile music sharing, context photography, ambient information visualization and new forms of robot applications.
Eva Hornecker
received her PhD from the University of Bremen on Tangible Interfaces as collaboration support medium. She has been acting assistant professor at Vienna Technical University and over the last year been visiting research fellow at the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex on the British Equator project. She's now moving to the HitLab NZ at the University of Canterbury, NZ, as lecturer in Interaction Design. Her research interests cover 'beyond the desktop' interaction design, CSCW, User-Centered and Participatory Design and her special focus is on tangible interaction design.
Frankie James
is a senior researcher in Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) at SAP Research. Her research interests include non-desktop
interactions (for example, voice and multimodality for mobile devices
and pervasive computing), accessibility, and internationalization. Dr.
James received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in
June 1998 for her research on audio HTML interfaces for blind users.
While at Stanford, she also developed software for the Archimedes
Project at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
related to the Total Access System (TAS). The TAS allows disabled users
to access computer-based systems using a single device uniquely suited
to their needs. Dr. James joined SAP Research in March 2001 from RIACS
(the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science), a NASA
contractor, where she studied voice interfaces for semi-autonomous
robots. She is a member of ACM's Special Interest Groups on
Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and Accessible Computing
(SIGACCESS).
Yang Li
is a research associate in the Computer Science and
Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He works with
James Landay. Yang's research interests are in ubiquitous computing,
focusing on activity-based computing paradigm, rapid prototyping
tools, sketch-based user interfaces and pen-based interaction
techniques.
Asa MacWilliams
studied computer science at the Technische Universität München, and completed his doctoral degree there in 2005. His research interests include distributed service architectures, adaptive middleware, context-aware computing and augmented reality. Since 2005, he is a software architect for Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich. His current research projects involve software architectures for pervasive computing in smart homes.
Sile O'Modhrain
is a lecturer in haptics and acoustics at the Sonic
Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queens University, Belfast. Her
research focuses on human-computer interaction, especially interfaces
incorporating haptic and auditory feedback. She earned her master's
degree in music technology from the University of York and her PhD
from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics (CCRMA). She has also worked as a sound engineer and
producer for BBC Network Radio. In 1994, she received a Fulbright
scholarship, and went to Stanford to develop a prototype haptic
interface augmenting graphical user interfaces for blind computer
users. Before taking up her position at SARC, Sile directed the
Palpable Machine's group at Media Lab Europe, where her work focused
on new interfaces for hand-held devices that tightly couple gestural
input and touch or haptic display.
Thomas Pederson,
PhD, is a lecturer at Dept. of Computing Science at Umeå University,
Sweden, and member of the Cognitive Computing research group. His
research interests include Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing with a
specific focus on unified modeling of physical and virtual
environments. Thomas is currently co-leading easyADL, a research
project investigating the possibility of using wearable technology to
assist people suffering the dementia disease in performing Activities
of Daily Living (ADL).
Hayes Raffle
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Tangible Media Group a the MIT Media
Lab. He is a practicing artist and designer researching the
relationships between people and machines. Hayes creates interactive
toys, systems and devices that engage people's touch to improve
communication, education, and artistic expression. Before attending
the Media Lab, Hayes received a B.A. in fine arts (sculpture) at Yale,
helped design and develop the award-winning ZOOB® building system and
ran his own art and design studio in California. He is the winner of
several internationally recognized design awards and has shown his art
in Europe and the United States.
Jacob O. Wobbrock
is a 5th-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Human-Computer
Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
University, where he is advised by Brad Myers. His research interests
include input and interaction techniques, assistive technology, and mobile
and ubiquitous computing. For his Ph.D. dissertation, Jacob developed the
EdgeWrite input technique, a versatile text entry method capable of being
used on a variety of devices and for a variety of user groups (see
www.edgewrite.com). Jacob expects to graduate in June 2006 and is actively
seeking employment.
Student volunteers and participants
are graduate students in the HCI group,
Department of Computer Science, Tufts University.
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