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Fabian Bäumer
is a master student at the University of Siegen in business administration with a focus on management and markets. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences with secondary subject Economics. He is working as a student/scientific assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller since September 2018. In this context, he is active in the project ‘Cooperative Production of User Autonomy in the Context of the Aging Society’ in the Collaborative Research Center ‘Media of Cooperation’
Pedro Filipe Campos
is Full Professor of Interactive Media and Computer Science at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal. He is Scientific Director at WowSystems and leads the eGamesLab, a research laboratory dedicated to videogame design, development, and evaluation. He previously served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and has also been a visiting researcher at Aalto University and INESC-ID. His research interests include human-computer interaction, creativity support tools, artificial intelligence, game design, and interactive systems. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, edited 17 books, supervised numerous PhD and master’s students, and has played leading roles in the international HCI community, including serving as the national delegate to IFIP TC13 and founding the Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) conference series.
Katerina Cerna
is a HCI lecturer at the Division of Human-computer interaction, Gothenburg University. She has a longstanding interest in combining learning and participatory design, especially in enabling citizens in co-creating their own solutions and the necessary knowledge they need to develop to do so. Currently she is exploring these topics in the field of HCI, sustainability and wellbeing.
Nastaran Dadashi
is a faculty and researcher at the School of Design, George Brown College. She holds a PhD in Human Factors and a MSc in Interactive Systems Design from University of Nottingham. She aims to incorporate design thinking to explore multi-agent socio-technical control systems. Nastaran is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF).
Nils Ehrenberg
is a doctoral researcher in design at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Previously he has worked for Malmö University and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. His ongoing doctoral project concerns issues of justice, ethics, and power in the smart home as well as the digitalisation of public services.
Tanja Ertl
is a Research Associate and PhD Student at the Information Systems department, especially IT for the Ageing Society at the University of Siegen, Germany. Her research focuses on HCI4Margins with special focus on well-being, resilience and (mental) health, where she is looking for potentials, benefits, limitations and risks of ICT
Marcus Foth
is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. He is a member of the More-than-Human Futures research group. Marcus has published more than 270 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and currently serves on Australia’s national College of Experts. His co-authored/edited books include Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation (Oxford University Press, 2023); Digital Participation through Social Living Labs – Valuing Local Knowledge, Enhancing Engagement (Chandos, 2018); Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking (Springer, 2015); Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions (MIT Press, 2014); Street Computing: Urban Informatics and City Interfaces (Routledge, 2014); From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement (MIT Press, 2011).
Jessica Frawley
is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Innovation at the University of Sydney, where she also holds an honorary appointment at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Jessica’s research sits at the nexus of design, computing and education. She has authored and co-authored journals, books and conference proceedings in human-computer interaction and educational technology. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Joel Fredericks
is a Lecturer in Design at The University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Joel is an urban planner, community engagement practitioner and interaction designer. His research is transdisciplinary and sits across the domains of community engagement, smart cities, participatory design, social inclusion and digital participation and immersive technologies. He has authored and co-authored many publications in journals, edited books and conference proceedings.
Nazanin Homayounfar
is the Program Coordinator and Faculty of the Interdisciplinary Design Strategy at the Institute without Boundaries, George Brown College. Her background in Philosophy, Political Science and Design Strategy has equipped her with the design tools needed to work with interdisciplinary students and faculty to propose design solutions for real world problems.
Eirene Keh
is a design strategist and researcher at George Brown College with a background in healthcare (Medical Radiation Sciences). Her research interests include user experience, participatory design, community-building, placemaking, smart cities, and healthcare.
Turkka Keinonen
is a professor of industrial design and vice dean of research at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Previously he has worked for Nokia Research Center and National University of Singapore. His research deals with human centred, collaborative and socially sustainable design.
Madalynne Lawrence
is a multidisciplinary, currently in a design strategy role at L’institut Idée. Her training in Psychology, and Design as well as down-time spent as a social entrepreneur guide her research interests in human-centred social planning and urban design as they relate to intersectional health outcomes.
Claudia Muller
is Assistant Professor of Socio-Informatics, specialising in “IT for the ageing society” at the University of Siegen, Germany. Her expertise is participatory design with and for older adults, vulnerable user groups and local communities. She is representative chairwoman of the commission of the Eighth Federal Government Report on Older People.
Richard Paluch
s a PhD Student at the Information Systems Department, especially IT for the Ageing Society at the University of Siegen, Germany. His research focuses on the robotization of care. Possibilities and limits of robotic systems for nursing are analyzed and standards for reasoning and assessment are developed for people in need of care.
Rosanne Sauz
is a design strategist with a background in SAP consulting, currently a product designer at a 3D printing company. Her research interests include system design and its impact on behaviour, decision-making, and quality of life in cities.
Froukje Sleeswijk Visser
is an assistant professor service design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands and an independent design researcher at ContextQueen. Froukje is a pioneer and thought leader in user insight research methods for service innovation. Her academic research focuses on developing design methodologies to realise social impact through multiple stakeholder collaboration.
Martin Tomitsch
is a Professor of Interaction Design in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Coordinator of the Urban Interfaces Lab, and Director of Innovation (Education, Enterprise and Engagement) at the University of Sydney. He is a visiting Professor at the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts Visual Art Innovation Institute and a founding member of the Media Architecture Institute. His recent books include “Design Think Make Break Repeat – A Handbook of Methods” (BIS) and “Making Cities Smarter – Designing Interactive Urban Applications” (Jovis).
Jeroen van Erp
Is a professor of concept design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands and one of the founders of strategic design agency Fabrique.At Fabrique, Jeroen established the interactive media department in 1994, focusing upon developing websites for the world wide web – brand new at that time. In the past 15 years, the agency received over 200 international awards. Jeroen is partner and participates as innovation strategist and concept developer in various projects.
Wies van Nifterik
is a fulltime design researcher at Zeewaardig Service Design, focusing on social design issues. Wies graduated at the master Design for Interaction at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. Her research interest is applying design methodologies to solutions for complex human problems.
Dan Vo
is a Senior Experience Designer at a consultancy conceptualising and delivering solutions that are both digital and built environment experiences through a human-centred/ customer-centred design approach. He is a graduate of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts program from the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning.