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Norm Cox is co-founder and principal of Cox & Hall, an experience design consultancy in Colleyville, TX. Educated in Architecture and Design at Louisiana State University, he began his career at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center as the visual designer for the Xerox "Star”, the first personal computer to introduce a graphical user interface. In 1982, Norm began his own consulting practice to expand his knowledge, experience, talents and influence in this budding field of computer-human interaction design.

11:55am-1:15 pm- Board games Meetup for HCII Human to Human Interaction (HHI)

Scott Weiss, Principal and Founder of Usable Products Company, is an information architect, usability expert, and author of “Handheld Usability” (John Wiley 1989 to 1996 designing software and managing software projects. H& Sons, June 2002). He held positions in the software industry. His former employers include Microsoft, Apple, Sybase, and Autodesk. He is the chair of the New York City chapter of ACM SIG CHI, the Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction. He also co-chairs the New York Software Industry Alliance’s HCI SIG.

Nikol Rummel studied psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since 1995. In 2002 she finished her Diploma in Psychology there. In 1998 she received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During the stay in Madison, her research focus was in the area of “Cognitive Science Applied to Education”. She worked with Professor Sharon Derry and Professor Joel Levin.

Jonathon Cummings is an Associate Professor of Management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He spent three years at the MIT Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor after completing his dissertation and post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University. During graduate school he interned at Intel (studying collaborative software) and at Motorola (studying knowledge management). He has an undergraduate degree in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in social psychology from Harvard University.

Takayuki Kanda is a Senior Research Scientist at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. He received his B. Eng, M. Eng, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He is one of the starting members of Communication Robots project at ATR. He has developed a communication robot, Robovie, and applied it in daily situations, such as peer-tutor at elementary school and a museum exhibit guide.

Richard Scheines is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, as a well as a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery. His primary Research focus is on the relations between causal knowledge and statistical data, but he has been active in educational computing since the late 1980s, when he developed an intelligent tutor for Formal Logic.