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Keynote Speakers
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Chris Baber |
Chris Baber is Reader in Interactive
Systems Design at the Department of Electronic, Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University of Birmingham,
UK. His main research interest is in human factors and the
design of 'everyday technology' and how 'everyday skills'
can be brought to bear in people's interaction with computers.
He has recently completed a project into the use of wearable
computers for Crime Scene Examination, in which theories of
Distributed Cognition were applied to the design and evaluation
of on-body reporting systems for CSI, and is exploring the
use of annotated images for shared awareness in military and
emergency response operations |
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John Maule |
John Maule is Professor of Human Decision Making, Director
of the Centre for Decision Research at Leeds University Business
School and, until recently, President of the European Association
for Decision Making. He has spent many years undertaking research
on how people make judgements and take decisions and how we
can use this knowledge to improve the effectiveness of these
activities. He has published many journal articles and book
chapters on risk and decision making and is currently involved
in research projects concerned with: modelling and communicating
risk across the food chain; perception and communication of
terrorist risk; the effects of emotion on risk taking and
consumer decision making.
He has a very strong commitment to applying academic theory
and research on human decision making to work contexts.
He has collaborated on the development of a training course
to identify and overcome the factors that inhibit security
awareness, acted as a consultant on risk and risk communication
for Government Agencies and run courses on this topic for
private and public sector organisations. He ha also developed
many research-led courses designed to help people understand
and improve their decision making, including courses on
strategic thinking, risk and decision making for senior
managers, bankers, doctors, senior police officers and security
professionals. |
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Nigel Shadbolt |
Nigel Shadbolt is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence
in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at
the University of Southampton. He is also Deputy Head of School
of ECS. His research concentrates on two ends of the spectrum
of AI - namely, Knowledge Technologies and Biorobotics.
In its 50th Anniversary year 2006 - 07, Nigel was President
of the British Computer Society. He is a Fellow of both the
Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society.
Between 2000-7, he was the Director of the £7.5m EPSRC
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge
Technologies (AKT). AKT was particularly influential in establishing
the viability and value of web-based semantic technologies.
He is the Chief Technology Officer of Garlik, a company formed
to exploit semantic web technology to enhance consumers’
and citizens’ privacy. He is also a founding director
of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI).
From 2001 to 2004 he was Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent
Systems and in 2005 he was appointed Emeritus Editor in Chief.
He is also a Fellow of the European AI Association (ECCAI).
He is a member of various UK committees, including the UK
EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for ICT.
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Harold Thimbleby |
Harold
Thimbleby directs the Future Interaction Technology Laboratory
at Swansea University, Wales. He is a Royal Society-Leverhulme
Trust Senior Research Fellow 2008-09, was a Royal Society-Wolfson
Research Merit Award Holder 2001-06, and 28th Gresham Professor
of Geometry. He is author of several books; his most recent,
Press On (MIT Press) won the Association of American Publishers
'best book in computer and information science' award for
2007. See http://harold.thimbleby.net
He research is in how bad design can be improved, particularly
for medical systems. His interests include algorithms, computer
ethics, human-computer interaction, and the public understanding
of science. Harold thus brings to us an interaction programming
perspective of how poorly designed technology can lead to
errors in human decision making. |
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