Dr Andy Smith - University of Luton

Andy is a Reader in HCI at the University of Luton and is also Director of the UK Centre for Software Internationalisation. Human-computer interaction is one of the key research areas within the Department of Computing and Information Systems within the University of Luton. He is also one of the Directors of optimum.web limited, a specialist usability consultancy company based in central London.

Professor Gilbert Cockton - British HCI Group

Gilbert is Chair of the British HCI Group (BHCIG) which was set up in 1984 as a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, to provide an umbrella organisation for all those working on the requirements analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of technology for human use. It is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to the discipline of human-computer interaction.

Gilbert is also Professor of HCI at the University of Sunderland, which is located in the north-east of England.

Sanjay Prasad - Computer Society of India

Sanjay is Vice President of the Computer Society of India which is the largest association of IT professionals in India. Started in 1965 it has grown to a size of 18000 members in a span of four decades. It has 60 chapters and 66 student branches spread across the major cities and towns of India besides having the National Headquarters at Mumbai & the Education Directorate in Chennai.

The purposes of the society are scientific and educational directed towards the advancement of the theory and practice of computer

Dr Jan Gulliksen - University of Uppsala, Sweden

The University of Uppsala has one of the world's largest HCI Departments - in fact there are two of them! Jan is responsible for HCI education within his Department where current research domains include transportation, administrative work environments (the system development process, quality assurance of industrial software systems) and medical systems and administrative work environments. Of particular relevance to IESUP is the work related to the user-centred design process.

Professor Liam Bannon - University of Limerick, Ireland

Led by Liam, the Interaction Design Centre (IDC) at the University of Limerick undertakes research in Computer Supported Co-operative Work, Human-Computer Interfaces, Usability, Multimedia, WWW and User-Centred Design. Liam's research interests span many aspects of HCI.