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Michael Yap is a designer, developer, and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Studio Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Interaction Design. Yap has worked with design and innovation consultancies like IDEO and now develops company and product strategies and helps oversee operations at Etsy. He has taught design at the California College of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts. His work is published in Raw Data (2014), a book by Steven Heller, and has been covered by a number of publications including Fast Company, Site Inspire, and Wired.

Philip Beesley (Canadian, born 1956) is a multidisciplinary artist and architect. Beesley’s research is recognized for its pioneering contributions to the rapidly emerging field of responsive interactive architecture. He directs Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG), an international group of researchers and creators. He is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo and the European Graduate School. He represented Canada at the 2010 and the 2020 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

John Stasko is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are broadly in HCI, with a particular focus on information visualization, information awareness, user interfaces, and interface agents. Stasko is the Director of the Information Interfaces research group that focuses on helping people harness and take advantage of the multitude of information now available to them.

Michael Schober is a psychologist who studies how people coordinate their actions, the mental processes underlying that coordination, and how new technologies mediate coordination. His research deals with interdisciplinary questions in psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, music, public opinion research, and sociology.

Jon received both his undergraduate BFA in Industrial Design as well as his Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work at Trilogy, in Austin, TX, focused on interface-level interaction design for Fortune 500 clients such as Ford, Sun and IBM. After working at several start-ups in Austin, he joined the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA in 2003.

Alessandro Acquisti is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a member of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, a member of CMU Privacy Technology Center, and a member of CMU Cylab.

Terry Swack is a 20-year veteran of the design profession as well as a leading digital strategist. Formerly, Terry was founder and CEO of TSDesign, an Internet strategy and product design firm which was acquired by Razorfish in 1999.

The development of the User Experience Audit, in 1996, was the first offering of its kind and positioned TSDesign as an industry leader in design analysis and user experience management. Clients included 3M, Compaq, BankBoston, WebCriteria, Tripod, Dell and Cendant Mortgage.

Noriyuki Fujimura began to make interactive artworks using his experience in the field of architecture and urban design. He has a BA in architecture (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and a Masters degree in Media and Public Policy (Keio University). He is currently a Visiting Artist/Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in the College of Fine Arts, supported by the Japanese Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He will present his artwork as part of a group exhibition “Healing the Environment” at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts this November.

Tom is the Lab Group Manager of the Human Machine Interface group within the Vehicle Development Research Lab at GM. He is responsible for developing next generation interfaces that enable safer, more efficient and pleasurable human interactions with GM vehicle interiors. This technical domain is comprised of User Centered Design process development, use of Design Language for brand differentiation and harmonious experience, in addition to the traditional focus of information management, display and control, and user human factors/usability testing.

Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the field of adaptive educational systems, user modeling, and intelligent user interfaces for more than 20 years. He published numerous papers and edited several books on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. Peter is currently an Associate Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab.

Dr. Julian Brinkley is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at Clemson University and the director of the Design and Research of In-Vehicle Experiences Lab (DRIVE Lab). His research is focused on the intersection between human factors, automotive engineering, and computer science; work that has been supported by grants from the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, Google, the US Army, the US Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

Rayvon Fouché is an Associate Professor of History and Research Associate Professor of the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological use. His first book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press) created a broader textured understanding of black inventive experiences.

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.