ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Mark Springett is a member of the Interaction Design Centre and the Design-for-all research group at Middlesex University. He is a member of the Usability Professionals Association.  He is a Working Group Co-ordinator for MAUSE (COST action 194). He has 19 years experience of working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, and has had a specialist interest in accessibility since 2000. His recent research includes investigations of iTV accessibility for citizens with low vision.

Mark Rice is a research assistant at the Queen Mother Research Centre, University of Dundee. With a keen interest in the development of user interfaces and user-centered methods for non-mainstream groups, he has worked on a number of iTV-related projects in support of people with low vision, dementia, and older people per se.

Alex Carmichael is an applied cognitive ageing researcher (BA Psych, PhD Applied Experimental Cognitive Psychology [based on EC funded AUDETEL project]).  He has fifteen years experience in human factors research of older users of ICT (including digital television), covering all aspects from initial requirements gathering to summative evaluation.

Richard N Griffiths a member of the British HCI Group is course leader of the MSc in Digital Television Management & Production at the University of Brighton, UK, a course the he has managed since its inception in 2001.  He researches usability design for interactive TV, particularly accessibility, and is currently involved with an EU FP6 multi-partner project; LOGOS: Knowledge on demand for ubiquitous learning.  He has previously been an organising member of workshops at Interact 1999 and CHI 2000 on usability pattern language, and HCI 2002 and 2003 on iTV and accessibility.

Rudolf Jäger heads the interactive TV Laboratory at the University of Applied Science Giessen-Friedberg, Germany. He has more than 10 years experience in digital TV, STB development and in the design of user Interfaces for interactive digital TV Services. His current research concerns advanced iTV-services comprising the broadcast and the on demand model in a modern Home-IPTV environment.

Graham McAllister is a Senior Lecturer in HCI at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests are in the areas of accessibility and usability of video games and interactive systems.  In particular, how the user experience of interactive media can be evaluated and how games can be designed for people with special needs.

Effie Lai-Chong Law is a Research Fellow at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and at the University of Leicester (UK). She obtained her M. Soc. Sc. in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. Her research domains are human-computer interaction (HCI) and technology-enhanced learning (TEL). She has presented and published a number of papers in international conferences, books and journals. She is the chief editor of a recent book entitled “Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value” (2008, Springer UK). Currently, she is chairing a large-scale international project COST294-MAUSE (http://www.cost294.org) in which leading HCI experts from 21 European countries are involved.