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Biographical Notes
Branco, Pedro
Pedro Branco is PhD student in Minho University, Portugal.He
worksasa researcher in the Human Media Technologies department of FraunhoferCenter
for Research in Computer Graphics (CRCG), Inc., USA. As part of histhesis,
he's looking in detail to multimodal interaction systems with thefocus on
the exploitation of multi-sensory cues and enriched multi-sensoryperceptions
in the context of single as well as distributed multi-user environments.In
the context of his research, he spent a considerable amount of time looking
in detail through the literature on multimodal interaction systems.
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Brown, Judith
Judith R. Brown retired this year from The Universityof Iowa, where she was
Manager of Advanced Research Computing and Visualization.Earlier work atThe
University of Iowa included development of educationalsoftware, teachingcomputer
graphics, consulting on computer graphics andcomputer aids for personswith
disabilities, representing the universityatthe national supercomputingcenters,
and managing The University of Iowa'sInternet2 project. She hasco-authored
four books on computer graphics, visualization,and user interface,and she
is a frequently-invited speaker on topics incomputergraphics education,visualization,
and collaboration. She is Chairof ACMSIGGRAPH, a EurographicsFellow, andan
honorable member of the AcademicCommitteeof the State KeyLab of CAD &
Computer Graphics at ZhejiangUniversity,Hangzhou, China.
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Gonçalves, Daniel
Daniel J. Gonçalves is a Teaching Assistant at the Instituto Superior
Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in Lisbon. His work has
been focused mainly on Artificial Intelligence, more specifically on
Automated Planning. He has finished his MSc in 2000, on the subject of
integrating planning and acting on a single system. In recent years,
he as also been working on the area of Human-Computer Interaction,
with emphasis on usability and mobile and ubiquitous computing.
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Guedj, Richard
Richard Guedj has been initially educated as an aeronautical engineer and holds the Diploma of Civil Engineer in Aeronautical Sciences, Paris 1958, then in Computer Sciences at Stanford University, MSc. 1966. For 20 years he has been Head of Human Machine Communication Laboratory with Thomson-CSF Central Research Lab. For the last 10 years (1989-1999), he has been Directeur Scientifique of Institut National des Telecommunications, Evry, France. His main field of specialization is Human Computer Interaction and Methodology of Interaction. Other connected fields include Computer Graphics and Standardization.
Dr. Guedj appears on the National list of Professors in Computer Science, French Universities. He holds several Patents, 2 of which have received a special award by Thomson-CSF. A Fellow of Eurographics Association, he is Associate Member of ORBICOM (the network of UNESCO Chair in Communications) and also with the Chair in Communications at UQAM, Montreal, CA. He is a Member of the Board of Technology and Human Sciences Department (TSH) dept, Université de Technologie de Compiégne, France. He has Published around 40 Scientific Publications in refereed Journals and is co-editor of 3 books.
Recently he was a Visiting Research Fellow at EIMC Dpt., The University of Bradford, UK, a Visiting Scientist with Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany. He was Co-Director with Professors Rae Earnshaw and Andy van Dam of the First EC/NSF Advanced Research Workshop, on "Human-Centered Computing, On-line communities and Virtual Environments", which took place in June 1999 at Bonas, France. See IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol.19, Nº 6, 1999, ISSN 0272-1716.
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Hanson, Vicki
Vicki Hanson manages the Accessibility Research Group at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. She has been actively involved in research on computing to assist persons with disabilities for the past 20 years, beginning with instructional software combining American Sign Language and written English to address issues related to bilingual language instruction of deaf children. Current work focuses on web accessibility and new interface technologies. Before coming to IBM, she worked at Haskins Laboratories and at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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Heller, Rachelle
Rachelle Heller has over 20 years of experience in the computer field, including work in industry and teaching at the college level. Dr. Heller co-authored a nationally syndicated newspaper column, "All About Computers" from 1982 to 1986. She has served as an educational computer consultant to the National Geographic Society.
Dr. Heller has spoken at computer conferences at the national and international level including the 1981 and 1985 World Conferences on Educational Computing, the LOGO '84 and '85 Conferences in Boston, the 1987 IFIPS WG3.5 Conference on New Technology in Primary Education and the 1988 and 1989 National Educational Computing Conference. She has been the keynote speaker at Hollins College and Coppin State College. She lectured in the Soviet Union on the uses of computers in education at the invitation of the Soviet Academy of Science in the summer of 1986 and the winter of 1989. In the summer of 1988 she was in the Soviet Union as a computer specialist to the USIA exhibit, "Information USA". In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous papers and technical reports on the uses of computers in mass spectrometry, teacher training and in educational classroom settings, Dr. Heller is the co-author with C. Dianne Martin of Bits 'n Bytes About Computing: A Computer Literacy Primer, the Bits 'n Bytes Gazette for school children and LOGOWORLDS, all published by Computer Science Press, Aleph-BASIC by Kar-Ben Copies, Bible Basic by Standard Press. Dr. Heller is the co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal "Computers & Education: An International Journal" by Pergamon Press. She is a lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery and the IEEE.
Dr. Heller's current research in multimedia is focused on the Multimedia Taxonomy.
Dr. Heller was an invited speaker at the ENABLE'99 conference in Espoo, Finland in June 1999. Her topic was the Design of a Graduate Program in Interactive Multimedia within a Computer Science Curriculum. At the Ed-Media '99 conference in Seattle, Dr. Heller delivered an invited talk - Multimedia; What's in it for Engineering Education. In addition, she presented a paper on Using a Multimedia Taxonomy Framework.
Dr. Heller is the co-principal investigator of four National Science Foundation grants. The first, "Bringing Young Minority Women to the Threshold of Science," is designed to raise the interest of young women to studies in science and engineering. The second, "TEAMSS, Teacher Enhanced Application for Middle School Science with Hypermedia, "is designed to enable teachers to use and re-use videodisc technology in their classrooms. FORWARD in SEM is a focus on reaching women for academics, research and development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. It is an implementation project for the recruitment and retention of women in advanced science, engineering and mathematics careers in conjunction with Gallaudet University. Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia (CRIM) is a project in conjunction with Professor Ed Fox at Virginia University.
She is also the Co-PI for the VISIT System, a multimedia kiosk project designed to provide information about the park and to collect visitor preference data in US National Parks.
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Jacob, Robert
Robert Jacob is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science atTufts University, where his research interests are user interface
softwareand new interaction media and techniques. He is also currently avisitingprofessor
at the MIT Media Laboratory, in the Tangible Media Group.Beforecoming toTufts,
he was in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at theNavalResearch Laboratory.
He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University,and he is member of the
editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-HumanInteraction, formerVice-Chair
of ACM SIGCHI, and Papers Co-Chair of theCHI2001 conference.
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Jorge, Joaquim
Joaquim Jorge is currently Professor of Computer Graphics and User Interfaces at the Computer Science Department at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UTL) Lisboa, Portugal. He received Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1995 and a BsEE from IST/UTL.
He was co-chair of EUROGRAPHICS'98, which took place in Lisboa, Portugal. A long time practitioner of Computer Graphics, he first joined the Eurographics Association in 1986, helped organize the first Portuguese Computer Graphics Meeting in 1988, was a founding member of the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. He has served on the EG Publications Board since 1997, is EG Conference Monitoring Officer for EG2001 and was elected to the Associations' Executive Committee in May 2000. He was invited as proposal evaluator for the ITR program of the National Science Foundation in 2000 and EU's IST Fifth framework program and related consultation meetings. He participated in several European projects connected to graphics and graphics standardization efforts as a researcher with the Portuguese Computer and Systems' Engineering Institute (INESC) CAD/CAM group from 1984 to1989. He is a consultant with FhG/IGD in Multimodal Interfaces and has served on the program committees of several international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Computers & Graphics Journal. He is affiliated with ACM/SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society (Senior Member), IFIP TC13 (Human Computer Interaction), IAPR, Usenix and is current chairman of the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Joaquim Jorge's interests are in Calligraphic and Multimodal User Interfaces, Visual Languages and Pattern Recognition techniques applied to Human-Computer Interaction.
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Lathan, Corinna
Dr. Lathan's diverse background includes extensive research, teaching, and consulting. Prior to founding AnthroTronix, she was an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Catholic University of America ("CUA"). Dr. Lathan received her B.A. in Biopsychology and Mathematics from Swarthmore College, and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT. In September 2000, Dr. Lathan was awarded MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, "Creating a future of opportunity" award that was given to only 16 graduates under the age of 35.
Dr. Lathan is an expert in human performance engineering, in the areas of biomedical engineering, human factors, and education and is a Principal Investigator in the Home Care and Telerehabilitation Technologies Center at CUA and the National Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Lathan is also a consultant to Georgetown University Medical School's Imaging Science and Information System ("ISIS") Center and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland's Space Systems Laboratory. She publishes numerous articles, organizes professional workshops and panels, and serves on committees of several professional organizations.
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Leventhal, Laura
Laura Leventhal is a professor of Computer Science at Bowling Green State
University. Herresearch focus is in human-computer interaction. Her current
research is focusedon cognitive issues involved with multiple representations
of information.She will be on sabbatical next year and She will be writing
an HCI textbookfor undergraduates.
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Lopes, Brisson
Joao Brisson Lopes is currently professor of Computer Graphics and
Human-Computer Interaction at Instituto Superior Tecnico.
Current research topics: computer mediated communication for severely
disabled persons, usability on the Web and data visualization.
Other interests: Distance Learning and the publication of a book on
Computer Graphics (in Portuguese).
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Oviatt, Sharon
Sharon Oviatt is a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Human-Computer
Communication(CHCC) in the Dept. of Computer Science at the Oregon Graduate
Instituteof Science & Technology (OGI). She previously has taught and
conductedresearch at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International,
andthe Universities of Illinois, California, and Oregon State. Her research
focuses on human-computer interaction, spoken language and multimodal interfaces,
and mobile and highly interactive systems. Examples of recent work involve
the development of novel design concepts for multimodal and mobile interfaces,
robust interfaces for real-world field environments and diverse users (children,
accented speakers), and conversational interfaces with animated software“partners.”
This work is funded by grants and contracts fromthe National Science Foundation,
DARPA, ONR, and corporate sources such asIntel, Motorola, Microsoft and Boeing.
She is an active member of the internationalHCI and speech communities, has
published over 70 scientific articles, andhas served on numerous government
advisory panels, editorial boards, andprogram committees. Her work is featured
in recent special issues of Communicationsfor the ACM, Human Computer Interaction,
and IEEE Multimedia. Further informationabout Dr. Oviatt and CHCC is available
at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CHCC.
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van Noorden, Leon
After aneducation in experimental physics, information theory and human perception
I have madework experience in Bell Labs (USA), the Dutch Association forand
of the Blind,and the Dutch PTT. Since 1989 I have been working for theEuropean
Commissionas a project officer in the area of usability engineering,people
with specialneeds and image communication and later as co-ordinator of the
ACTS InteractiveMultimedia Services Domain, which stimulated the work ofDVB,
MPEG and DAVIC.I have dealt with projects implementing broadband interactive
services onSatellite, Cable, Terrestrial and MMDS. In the IST programme I
am co-ordinatingthe projects on user and service interfaces for the converging
area of InteractiveDigital Television, Internet and Mobile Services. I support
Commission departmentsthat are dealing with aspects of regulation of theelectronic
communicationmarket, e.g. on MHP.
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Yousef, Muna
B.sc in Computer Science, minor in Psychology, American University in Cairo,
1990. M.sc inSoftware Engineering, George Washington University, 1995. Dr.sc
in Multimedia,minor in Art, George Washington University, 2001.
I'm interested in human mind, creativity, and how to approach interface design
in a holistic manner that combines both visual appeal plus usability goals.
I'm also interested in interface metaphors and their design. My dissertation
topic is " Empirical validation of criteria to assess the semantic efficacy
of interface metaphors".
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Zajicek, Mary
Mary Zajicek is the leader of the Speech Project,at Oxford Brookes University,
where we developed BrookesTalk, a Web browserfor visually impaired olderadults,
focussing on representation of the informationon a Web page usingspeech.She
received funding from Microsoft Corporationunder the Active Accessibility
Initiative to integrate BrookesTalk with InternetExplorer, and recently received
an award from Hewlett Packard plc under theVoice Web Initiative to investigate
aspects of cognitive impairment and alternativeaccess to the Web. Current
interests are retention of spoken instructionsby older adults together with
the reduction of functionality in applicationsto accommodate older adults
and techniques for increasing functionality whenbasic functions have been
learnt.
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