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Anne Marie Piper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in human-computer interaction focuses on designing and studying new technologies to support communication, social interaction, and learning for people across the lifespan. Her research is funded through four NSF awards, including a CAREER award, and has been recognized with numerous Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, and ASSETS. She was named a U.S.

Robert Reimann has spent the last 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, manager, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, kiosks, information systems, and consumer electronics, for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. As Director of Design R&D at Cooper, Robert helped develop and refine the interaction design methodologies described in About Face 2.0, co-authored with Alan Cooper.

Jeff Forbes is the lead Program Director for the Education & Workforce program in the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (NSF CISE), managing programs that address the critical and complex issues of education and broadening participation in computing. He is currently the Director of Research & Policy for the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech. From 2001-2019, Jeff was on the faculty of Duke University where he was an Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science.

Phoebe Sengers is an assistant professor in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, where she leads the Culturally Embedded Computing group. She works in HCI and cultural analysis of IT, developing new theories, methods, and applications that respond to and encourage critical reflection on the place of technology in culture.

Jason Hong joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 as an assistant professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He works in the areas of ubiquitous computing and usable privacy and security, focusing on location-based services, anti-phishing, mobile social computing, and end-user programming. He is also an author of the book The Design of Sites, a pattern-based approach to designing customer-centered web sites. He received his PhD from Berkeley and his undergraduate degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Brad A. Myers is a Senior Research Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the principal investigator for the User Interface Software Project, the Demonstrational Interfaces Project and the Natural Programming Project. He is the author or editor of over 190 publications, including three books, and he is on the editorial board of five journals. He has consulted for over 25 companies on user interface design and implementation.

Dr. Brian Slator is Professor of Computer Science at North Dakota State University. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Educational Media. He is currently involved in several research projects in the area of immersive, multi-user, virtual environments. He is also involved in research for developing software tools for constructing virtual worlds, and innovative methods for assessing learning in virtual environments.

Maria C.R. Harrington holds a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh. Her major advisor was Dr. Peter Brusilovsky. Since 2000 she has also been an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Lecturer for Human-Computer Interaction, User Centered Design, Human Factors in System Design, and Introduction to Information Science in the School of Information Sciences (SIS), at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a MSIS from SIS, and a BS in Economics with a Minor in Art from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bill Schilit is part of Google Research and an adopted member of the Book Search group. Before joining Google, Bill was co-director of the Intel Research lab in Seattle, managed digital library and mobile computing research at Fuji-Xerox (FXPAL), worked on distributed computing at AT&T’s Bell Labs, and was part of the team that developed Ubiquitous Computing at PARC. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Computer Magazine and a past member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. Bill received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1995.

Rich Caruana is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, Rich was on the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, at UCLA’s Medical School, and at CMU’s Center for Learning and Discovery. Rich’s Ph.D. is from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Tom Mitchell and Herb Simon. His thesis on Multi-Task Learning helped create interest in a new subfield of machine learning called Transfer Learning.

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who uses various media to encourage formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions that emerge relating to this divide, collectively questioning or challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to “hunt” and “gather”.

Carol J. Smith leads research on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) and human-machine teaming for the CMU Software Engineering Institute in the AI Division, where she is a Senior Research Scientist. Carol is also an Adjunct Instructor for the CMU HCII teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. Carol has been leading UX research to improve human experiences across industries for over 20 years and improving AI systems since 2015. She is the Information Architecture Conference (IAC) 2023 Co-Chair, volunteers for UXPA and IEEE, and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Janet Vertesi is a sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University, where she is Link-Cotsen Fellow at the Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the complex intersections between people, science, and technological systems: especially the role of digital images in science, the organization and coordination of distributed robotic spacecraft teams, transnational technologies, and critical approaches to HCI. Vertesi holds a Ph.D.

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is the Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist, and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab. She investigates traditional and digital practices, and their intersections with society.

Burr Settles is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, with additional studies in Linguistics and Biology. His current research focuses on interactive machine learning that resembles a “dialogue” between computers and humans, with applications in natural language processing, biology, and social computing. He also runs the website FAWM.ORG, prefers sandals to shoes, and plays guitar in the Pittsburgh pop band Delicious Pastries.