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Dr. James H. Morris is a professor of Computer Science and dean of the West Coast Campus of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992 to 2004 he served as department head, then dean in the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000. He is a native of Pittsburgh and received a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Management from MIT and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.

Jodi Forlizzi is an Associate Professor of Design and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interaction designer contributing to design theory and practice. Her theoretical research examines theories of experience, emotion, and social product use as they relate to interaction design. Other research and practice centers on notification systems ranging from peripheral displays to embodied robots, with a special focus on the social behavior evoked by these systems.

Sara Kiesler is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the HCII at Carnegie Mellon University. Her previous work on communication in computer-mediated contexts and on people’s interactions with human-like computer agents kindled her interest in social robots; this interest was greatly encouraged by the engineering and design work on interactive robots at CMU.

Avi Parush completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology and graduated in 1984 from McGill University, Canada. From then on he was working as a human factors engineer and user interface designer in a variety of domains ranging from the bridge of an icebreaker and the cockpit of a jet fighter to medical and telecomm systems, to mobile devices and speech-based interfaces. Avi is the co-founder of LaHIT, one of Israel’s leading usability consulting firms, and founded and chairs the Israeli local SIGCHI.

David Parsons is the Director of the Human Centered Design Center of Excellence at Emerson Process Management. His new charter is to lead Emerson’s push into improved human interface design quality and consistency for hardware and software products. His office is in Pittsburgh, PA at the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute, where he coordinates his activities with the Emerson Software Excellent Center located in Hamburg Hall and reaches out to dispersed company management and development partners worldwide.

Daniel Szuc is Principal Usability Consultant at Apogee, a usability consulting Services Company based in Hong Kong (where he has lived for the last 10 years) and Vice President of the Usability Professionals Association. Dan previously worked on a Usability Team for Telstra Australia and has lectured about UX & Design in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, the USA, New Zealand and Japan. He co-wrote a “Usability Kit” with Gerry Gaffney which is an implementation guide providing best practices and guidelines for usability teams.

Dr. Stevie Chancellor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Her research combines approaches from HCI and ML to build and critically evaluate human-centered systems, focusing on high-risk health behaviors in online communities.

Joel Brandt is a Research Scientist at Adobe Systems, Inc. Through a mixture of empirical work and systems building, he studies the task of programming. His recent work explores the role that information resources play during software development. Tools built as part of this research are now used by thousands of programmers on a daily basis. Joel completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2010, advised by Scott Klemmer. He received a BS with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ding Wang, is a senior HCI researcher from Google AI, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology Group. Her research focuses on the norms, processes and production of data (e.g. the collection, annotation and documentation on data) and responsible data practices that are essential to ML and AI systems.

Bjoern Hartmann is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. He co-directs the Berkeley Institute of Design and the Berkeley Swarm Lab. His research has received numerous Best Paper Awards at ACM CHI and UIST, and an NSF CAREER award in 2012. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2009.

Amy Bruckman is Regents’ Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on social computing, with interests in online collaboration, CSCW, and content moderation. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1997, and a B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1987. She is a Fellow of The ACM and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. She is the author of the book “Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge” (2022).

David Crow, Partner