Anna Carter is a PhD Researcher in the Centre for Doctoral Training at Swansea University where she is focusing on enhancing human interactions and collaborations with intelligence driven systems. Swansea City and County are stakeholders within the PhD project which involves deploying a range of technologies within the £1.3bn city regeneration project. Her research focuses on using human centred methods to co-create an immersive digital experience throughout the city centre using a range of next generation technologies created through participatory design. Designing inclusively is essential to all of her work and she is currently the accessibility chair for EduCHI 2022.
Miriam Sturdee is a Research Fellow and lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, where she investigates visual and creative methods for the advancement of computer science, with a particular interest in the design of novel interfaces. Her current work is examining the user experience of shape-changing interfaces, exploring the visual side of cybersecurity C&C’21, and the co-existence of the arts and HCI C&C’21. She also has an MFA in Visual Communication from Edinburgh College of Art, and an MA in Psychology. She has previously organised workshops on Sketching in HCI (DIS 2017), art and tangible interaction (CHI 2020), novel cycling interfaces and futuring peer review (CHI 2021).
Alan Dix is Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University, a £31m investment by the University, Welsh Government and European Union to create a place to nurture fundamental digital research that makes a difference to real lives. Previously he spent 10 years in a mix of academic and commercial roles. Alan has worked in human–computer interaction research since the mid 1980s and is the author of one of the major international textbooks on HCI as well as of over 500 research publications from formal methods to design creativity. His work has often looked over the technological horizon, for example in 1992 he wrote possibly the first paper to highlight the potential for gender and ethnic bias in black-box machine learning algorithms, and in 2000 led development of an early (albeit too early!) social networking system. Social impact is also crucial to his work and he is currently responsible for the algorithmic social justice theme of the UK Not-Equal network for Digital Economy and Social Justice.
Dani Kalarikalayil Raju is co-founder of Studio Hasi, a startup with a mission to diversify future making. He is an alumnus of IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay and has been working with resource constrained user groups (Emergent Users) in India for the past 5 years in collaboration with the Computational Foundry at Swansea University. The consistent theme in his work is that of exploring futures with users having constraints such as low literacy, lack of technology experience and low self efficacy, by engaging them in workshops and deployment studies to re-imagine forward looking technologies for the world. Working with emergent users in two of Mumbai’s slums, his recent work explored the value and uses of photovoltaic (PV) self-powered deformable digital materials for interhome connections. He was awarded the Gary Marsden Travel Awards for presenting this work at CHI 2021.
Martha Aldridge is a Design Consultant of 14 years with a wealth of experience in multiple domains including government, early years and special needs education and medicine. She has been a consultant for multiple academic research groups from scientific instrument design to improving independent online learning for autistic children, and has contributed to the design of accessible government services since 2013. She has also led the design of large scale public health studies and the effective use of public health data for driving policy and local authority spending decisions. Martha currently works remotely as a digital transformation consultant for public and private sector clients.
Eunice Sari is the CEO and Co-Founder of UX Indonesia and Co-Founder of Customer Experience Insight Pty Ltd with more than 18+ years of global experience working in the field of User Experience and Customer Experience Insight in academia and industries. She holds Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Design Research and Educational Technology. Eunice has pioneered many forward-thinking and innovative projects to affect lives and improve businesses’ bottom line in various vertical industries in the USA, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Eunice was the first Asian female Google Developer Expert in Product Design and Strategy and currently is the Product Design expert mentor for the Google Startups program. She has helped hundreds of international startups through Google Launchpad and Accelerator Programs to develop their products and services and improve their business. Eunice has been helping and inspiring many academics, especially in the Asia Pacific, to design their HCI, UX, and Design teaching and learning programs with out-of-the-box tools and approaches that she has developed throughout these years.
Wendy E. Mackay is a Research Director, Classe Exceptionnelle, at Inria, the French National Research Center for Computer Science, and is an ACM Fellow, CHI Academy member and the 2022 Chair for Computer Science at the Collège de France. Wendy directs the ExSitu (Extreme Situated Interaction) research lab, which focuses on creative professionals and ‘extreme users’ who push the limits of technology, to develop novel human-computer partnerships. Her lab is joint with the Human-Computer Interaction department of LISN (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique) at the Université Paris-Saclay, where she teaches theoretical and practical interaction design. She has been actively involved in the creation of methods and interactive tools to support creativity, both in industry and research, since the 1980s and has published numerous articles on design, particularly with respect to the use of video and interaction design.
Elizabeth Churchill is a Director of UX at Google. With a background in psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, she draws on social, computer, engineering, and data sciences to create innovative end-user applications and services. She has built research teams at Google, eBay, Yahoo, PARC and FujiXerox. Her current focus is on the design of effective designer and developer tooling. Elizabeth holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and the University of Stockholm. She is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery’s (ACM) CHI Academy, is an ACM Fellow, Distinguished Scientist, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. She served as the ACM’s Vice President for 2 years, from 2018-2020. In 2016 she received a Citris-Banatao Institute Award Athena Award for Women in Technology for her Executive Leadership. She has been named one of the top women leaders in UX over the last several years.