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Hugh is a design planner and teacher. At Apple Computer in the late 80s and early 90s, Hugh managed cross-functional design teams and later managed creative services for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a technology-forecast film called “Knowledge Navigator,” that presaged the appearance of the Internet in a portable digital device. While at Apple, he served at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as the first and founding chairman of the computer graphics department.

Gahgene Gweon is an associate professor at Seoul National University (SNU). Before joining SNU, she was an assistant professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She earned bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Economics at University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Dr. Gweon holds an MHCI and Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Aaron Koblin is an artist and designer specializing in data and digital technologies. His work takes real-world and community generated data and uses it to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and the systems they create. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His projects have been shown at international festivals including TED, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, and the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design practices and civic media. He is also the co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing.  DiSalvo’s work explores and analyzes the social and political qualities of design.

Chris Quintana engages in research that is at the intersection of education and learning sciences, human-computer interaction, and computer science. He has focused much of work on software-based scaffolding for middle school science students, including the development of scaffolded software tools, scaffolding frameworks for software, and learner-centered design processes.

Daniel Rosenberg is the 2019 recipient of the SigCHI Lifetime Practice Award for his combination of technical and leadership contributions to the field over the past 40+ years.

Currently, he is a UX consultant and an adjunct professor of HCI at San Jose State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Interaction Design Foundation and edits the “Business of UX” Forum in ACM Interactions magazine.

Professor Leyton received a BS degree in Mathematics from Warwick University (England), and a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. He was a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. His process-grammar for describing shape history has been used in over 20 scientific disciplines from chemical engineering to meteorology. He is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics. Currently he is involved in ISO work—international standardization in the aerospace and mechanical engineering industry—as well as research in control systems in robots.

Jessica Hullman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her research looks at how to design, evaluate, coordinate, and think about representations of data for amplifying cognition and decision making. She co-directs the Midwest Uncertainty Collective, a lab devoted to better representations, evaluations, and theory around how to communicate uncertainty in data, with Matt Kay.

Tracee Wolf is a designer with the Social Computing Group at IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY. She currently works with her group to create socio-technical solutions in interpersonal and collaboration technologies. Her degrees in Applied Design and Visual Communication (B.S.) and Architecture (Masters) have provided a basis not only for user-empathy and user-advocacy, but also solutions that acknowledge human needs and habits.