Committees

Organizers

Jan Van den Bergh, Expertise Centre for digital Media, Hasselt University – tUL – Flanders Make, Belgium

Jan Van den Bergh is a senior researcher at Hasselt University and member of the Human-Computer Interaction lab of the research institute Expertise Centre for Digital Media. He has a PhD from Hasselt University and Maastricht University. His research focus is on user-centered engineering of context-sensitive or collaborative user interfaces. In recent years, his research concentrates primarily in projects with the manufacturing industry involving user-centered design and tools for the creation or configuration of multimodal and collaborative interfaces, which use AR and VR. Jan primarily performs research in multi-disciplinary applied and basic research projects with diverse application areas ranging from translation to health and from media to manufacturing. In his research, he explores the usage of different notations (including graphical and textual modeling languages, personas, scenarios and storyboards, mixed-fidelity prototypes) to specify interactive systems, their users and tasks. He also explores how to combine notations throughout creation processes of interactive systems.

Regina Bernhaupt, Department of Industrial Design, TU/e Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Regina studied Psychology and Applied Informatics at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and received her PhD there in Summer 2002, on artificial time-coded neural networks. In 2009, she completed her habilitation qualifications at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulose, France. In 2007, she started as Invited Professor at the IRIT in Toulose and as User Experience Research Director at award-winning design firm Ruwido Austria. In 2017, she accepted a Full Professorship at Eindhoven University of Technology. She also still works as research director for Ruwido. Bernhaupt is currently acting as VP for Membership and Communication in the Executive Committee of SIGCHI and is founder for the ACM SIGCHI CHI PLAY Conference. More

Philippe Palanque, IRIT-ICS, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France

Philippe Palanque is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse 3 in France. Since the late 80s he has been working on the development and application of formal description techniques dedicated to interactive system. He has worked on research projects to improve interactive Satellite Ground Segment Systems at Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and is also involved in the development of software architectures and user interface modeling techniques for interactive cockpits in large civil aircraft (funded by Airbus). He is also involved in the research network HALA! (Higher Automation Levels in Aviation) funded by SESAR programme which targets at building the future European air traffic management system.

Philippe leads projects in these domains for more than 20 years having to integrate as diverse domains as Human-Computer Interaction, Human Error, Automation, Formal Methods, Performance Evaluation, Dependability or Software Engineering. The main driver of Philippe’s research has been to address in an even way Usability, Reliability, Safety and Dependability in order to build resilient safety critical interactive systems. Together with his colleagues, he proposed a formal description technique for interactive systems (called ICOs ), a notation for representing operators’ activities (called HAMSTERS) and software architectures to increase fault-tolerance of interactive systems. All these contributions are integrated within a single framework (called CIRCUS) that allows developers editing the models, executing them and verifying properties at human, interaction and system levels. This has been applied to the new generation of interactive cockpits, satellite ground segments and Air Trafic Management workstations.

Benjamin Weyers, Department IV - Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of Trier, Germany

Benjamin is currently Assistant Professor at University of Trier and Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Group. Before, he was PostDoc at the Virtual Reality and Immersive Visualization group at RWTH Aachen University. He received his PhD in 2011 at the University of Duisburg-Essen and joined RWTH in 2013. He is interested in the development and research on interactive analysis methods for abstract and scientific data using immersive systems as well as the integration of VR and AR into the control of technical systems for the support of human users in semi-automated control scenarios. Additionally, he focuses on the development and use of formal methods for the description of interactive systems. More