ADVISORY BOARD

Prof. Dr. Mark Apperley
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Mark Apperley has been working in the field of HCI for more than 30 years. In the 1970's he worked on the MINNIE interactive CACD system with Bob Spence, pioneering a range of interaction and information visualization techniques, including dynamic exploration and percent done indicators. Also with Bob Spence he devised the bifocal display (1980) and the Lean Cuisine notation for menu description (1988). More recently his research has focused on systems supporting collaborative work, and on techniques for large screen interaction. Mark is Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Dr. Kenneth Boff
Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Kenneth R. Boff is a Chief Scientist of the Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. His research includes human engineering of complex systems, training, safety, protection, and deployment logistics. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters, and has edited several books. He is a founder and technical director of the Department of Defense Human System Information Analysis Center, and is a founding member and former chair of the DoD Reliance Human-Systems Interface Technology Panel. He is internationally known for his research on understanding and remediating problems in the transition of ergonomic data and models to applications in the design of complex human-operated systems.

Dr. Jeff Bradshaw
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), where he leads the research group developing the KAoS policy and domain services framework to support joint activity and adjustable autonomy in human-automation systems. Formerly, he has led research groups at The Boeing Company and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of Washington. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France; is an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Center for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and AIAI at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; is visiting professor at the Institut Cognitique at the University of Bordeaux; and is a member and former chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA Ames Research Center.

Prof. Dr. John Carroll
Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology
John M. Carroll is the Edward M. Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and the design of interactive information systems. His recent books include Making Use (MIT Press, 2000), HCI in the New Millennium (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Usability Engineering (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, with M.B. Rosson) and HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003). He serves on several editorial boards for journals, handbooks, and series and is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions. He received the Rigo Award and the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from ACM, the Silver Core Award from IFIP, and the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award from IEEE. He is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and HFES.

Prof. Dr. Tiziana Catarci
Database & User Interface Group, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Tiziana Catarci’s main research interests are in theoretical and application-oriented aspects of visual formalisms for databases and database design. With respect to theory, she has studied problems related to the formalization and evaluation of the expressive power of visual query languages. Moreover, she has worked on semantic database modeling, cooperative information systems, and statistical databases. On these topics she has published more than 100 articles in leading journals and conferences and 10 books. With respect to applications, she has led or participated in various projects on visual query systems and developed methodologies for database design, particularly related to translations between conceptual and logical schemas, and to data distribution. Outside of academia, she has been a consultant to large (private and government) organizations.

Dr. Mary Czerwinski
Visualization and Interaction Research Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Mary Czerwinski is a Senior Researcher and manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. Mary's research focuses primarily on novel information visualization and interaction techniques across a wide variety of display sizes. She also studies information worker task management, multitasking, and reminder systems. Her background is in visual attention and user interface design. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Among other professional activities, since 2003 she is the ACM SIGCHI Executive Vice-President.

Dr. Nahum Gershon
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Nahum grew up in a melting pot – a real one. This multi-lingual environment was cerebral but also literal and oral. So naturally, he desired, since he was a child, to be a scientist, an aspiration he fulfilled specializing in the areas of chemistry, physics, and biology. Later in life, he discovered that humans cannot live on reason & linear thinking alone, so he went through years of personal transformation. Today, Nahum works on combining creative expressions like storytelling, film, and visual and interactive design with technology and strategic planning. He can still be logical (and very much so), but he does it only when appropriate. Nahum is a Senior Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation where he focuses on research and practical applications of presentation and visualization of data and information, as it relates to perception, society, storytelling, and culture. Routinely, he tries very hard not to torture his audience with PowerPoint slides and bully bullets whenever possible. In his free time, Nahum, among other things, participates in a number of national and international committees. He enjoys life.

Prof. Dr. Jim Parker
Digital Media Laboratory, University of Calgary
Jim Parker is currently Full Professor of computer science at the University of Calgary. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and M.Sc. in Computer Science in calgary, and his Ph.D. (Doctor in de Wetenschappen) in Informatics (Informatica) from the State University of Gent (Universiteit Gent) with greatest distinction (met de grootste onderscheiding) or, in Latin, Magna Cum Laude. His Ph.D. thesis concerns pattern recognition in practical environments, and includes work on using vision methods to assist in water treatment plant control. Past research work involves discrete event simulation, pattern analysis, machine vision, and use of multiple/parallel algorithms. More recently the work involves multimedia, incorporating much of the past work into studies of video game technology. The specific interest is in Serious games, which is the use of games and game technology for purposes other than pure entertainment.

Prof. Dr. Annelise Mark Pejtersen
Center of Cognitive Systems Engineering, Denmark
A.M. Pejtersen is director and professor at Kognitiv System Design (Center of Cognitive Systems Engineering). Before that, she was the head of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Center, Risø National Laboratory. The center closely collaborates with the Center for Human-Information Interaction, University of Washington, USA. Annelise is an internationally recognized specialist and pioneer work in cross-disciplinary research in Cognitive Systems Engineering, Information Science and Human-Computer Interaction.Through her workplace studies of libraries including the cognitive and cooperative aspects of human work such as the communication between users and librarians, their information processing, search strategies, and categorization patterns, she has developed the first multimedia system for information storage and retrieval, the so-called "Book House System".

Prof. Dr. Robert Spence
Intelligent Systems and Networks, Imperial College, London
For over 40 years Bob Spence has pursued research in two fields, engineering design and human-computer interaction. A compilation of Bob's research in HCI up to around 1985, entitled Acquisition of Insight, was recognized by the award of a Higher Doctorate by the Royal College of Art. With colleagues, Bob has been responsible for a number of innovations including the Bifocal Display (now known as the Fisheye Lens), the Prosection Matrix and the Attribute, Influence and Neighbourhood Explorers. His book, Information Visualization (Addison-Wesley, 2001) has been widely adopted and forms the basis of many tutorials that Bob has given around the world. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Gerrit C. van der Veer
Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia & Culture,
Open University Netherlands and Twente University of Technology
In 1990, Gerrit van der Veer received his PhD from the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; his dissertation is focusing on "Human-Computer Interaction; Learning, Individual Differences and Design Recommendations." Today, he is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit and is heading the working group for "Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia & Culture". His main research Interests are design methods for interactive systems, task analysis and mental models of complex systems. Gerrit is a member of the Conference Management Committee of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and has chaired SIGCHI twice.