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Wai Fong Boh is an Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She received her PhD from the Tepper School of Business at the Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests are in the areas of knowledge management and organizational learning, and the management industry and organizational standards. She has articles published in Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Information & Organization and Human Resource Management.

Tom Igoe is an Associate Arts Professor at the ITP in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He teaches courses and workshops in physical computing and networking, exploring ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wider range of human physical expression. Coming from a background in theatre, his past work has centered on physical interaction related to live performance and public space. Current research focuses on ecologically sustainable practices in technology development and how open hardware development can contribute to that.

Karen is the visionary behind InContext’s unique customer-centered design approach, Contextual Design. Karen’s combination of technological and psychological expertise provides the creative framework for driving the development, innovative designs, and design processes.

Dr. Elizabeth Churchill is a Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research. Originally a psychologist by training, throughout her career Elizabeth has focused on understanding the ways in which people interact—whether their interactions are primarily face to face or are technologically mediated. She has published within the areas of theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work.

Dr. Edward Jay Wang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and The Design Lab at UC San Diego, where he directs the Digital Health Technologies Lab. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College. His research work explores practical solutions to address real-world medical needs drawn from collaborations with clinicians and world health organizations, but solved using new and creative insights that leverage state-of-the-art applied machine learning, embedded systems, and mobile sensors.

Khai N. Truong is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), specifically examining the mutual impact of usability and technical constraints on the design of applications and interaction techniques for novel, off-the-desktop computing systems that may be commonplace in 5–10 years. He received his PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Maarten Bos received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Radboud University in Nijmegen in The Netherlands. During his time there, his research focused on decision-making and he taught both decision-making and ethical persuasion. From 2011 to 2013, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets unit at the Harvard Business School, where he worked on various behavioral science projects.

Dr. Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, director of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) and leader of its Socially Expressive Computing Group. He has been doing research in computational models of social and linguistic behavior for almost two decades at MIT, University of Southern California and now Reykjavik University. His focus has been on supporting fully embodied communication in virtual environments for entertainment, education and training.

Hiroshi Ishii is a Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He was named Associate Director at the Media Lab in May 2008.