Maliheh Ghajargar

She is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, and affiliated with the Internet of Things and People (IoTaP) research centre.

Her research interests are within the areas of Design Research, and HCI. Her focus is on designing the UX and interaction modalities (e.g. Tangible Interaction) of IML (Interactive Machine Learning) model. She holds a PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), in collaboration with Umeå University, Department of Informatics. Her PhD project concerned about designing interactive artifacts for everyday reflections in home environment.

Jeffrey Bardzell

He is Associate Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology. He researches human-computer interaction and design theory, focusing on the interrelationships between creativity and criticality—that is, the innovative pursuit of novel and useful forms that reflect our deepest values and most elevated desires.

He is co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2018) and co-author of Humanistic HCI (Synthesis Lectures in Human-Centered Informatics, 2015). He is working on a monograph titled, Design as Research: An Aesthetic Perspective. Bardzell's work is/has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, Indiana University, Shih Chien University (Taiwan), and Aarhus University (Denmark).

Alison Smith Renner

Dr. Alison Smith-Renner leads the Machine Learning Visualization Lab for Decisive Analytics Corporation, where she builds user interfaces and visualizations for interacting with intelligent systems and their results.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on enhancing users' understanding, trust, and interaction with machine learning without requiring prior expertise. She is active in the explainable machine learning and human-centered machine learning communities.

Dr. Smith-Renner received her Ph.D from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park; her dissertation focused on human-centered design for control and transparency in interactive machine learning systems.

Peter Gall Krogh

He is trained as architect and product designer. He is Professor in Design and heads the Socio-Technical Design group at the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University. Prior to this he was professor in design at Aarhus School of Architecture, visiting professor in Politecnico di Milano, Hong Kong PolyU and recently at Jiangnan University.

He contributes to service and interaction design both in doing and theorizing based on co-design techniques with a particular interest in aesthetics, collective action and proxemics. In recent years this has played out in relation to designing for patient experiences in healthcare. His recent book: Drifting by Intention: Four Epistemic Traditions from within Constructive Design Research describes what design look like and how it can be approached when developing knowledge is equally important as providing opportunities by design. He has published mores than 70 papers, chaired several conferences and held numerous editorial positions in design research and SIGCHI publication fora. He has supervised more than 10 PhDs and examined more than twice as many.

Kristina Höök

She is a Professor in Interaction Design at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm Sweden. Höök is known for her work on social navigation, seamfulness, mobile services, affective interaction and lately, designing for bodily engagement in interaction through somaesthetics. She is the author of book published by MIT Press in 2018: "Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design".

She has obtained numerous national and international grants, awards, and fellowships including the INGVAR award from the Strategic Research Foundation (SSF) in 2004, she is an ACM Distinguished Scientist since 2014, the associate editor of ACM ToCHI journal, and she is an ACM distinguished speaker and was elected to the ACM academy, in 2020.

David Cuartielles

He holds a PhD in Interaction Design and MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering. Founded Malmo University's IOIO lab, formerly known as K3's Prototyping Laboratory. David teaches interactive technologies at bachelor, master, and PhD. levels. He is also one of the co-founders of the open source platform Arduino.

Currently David is a research fellow at the centre for Internet of Things and People at Malmo University. His research work includes an analysis of the creation of platforms, prototyping and testing tools for education, and the study of visual programming languages.

Laurens Boer

He is Associate Professor in Interaction Design the IT University of Copenhagen, department of Digital Design. He uses constructive design research to speculate and research new forms and applications for computational materials, with a particular focus on their temporal expression and qualities of interaction. He designed and studied provocative prototypes, social robots, and self-tracking devices. He is currently working with healthcare technologies and how they exhibit care in interaction.

Mikael Wiberg

Mikael Wiberg is a full professor in informatics at Umea university, Sweden. He has held positions as Chaired Professor in HCI at Uppsala university (2010-2012), as Head of department, informatics, Umea university (2013-2016), as Associate Dean for the social sciences faculty (2016-2017), as Development director for Umea Arts Campus, Umea university, and as Guest professor in HCI (human-computer interaction) at Sodertorn university, Sweden (2018-2020). He has also served as Research director for Umea institute of design (2008-2010).

He has a PhD in informatics from Umea university. Wiberg’s main work is within the areas of interactivity, mobility, materiality, and architecture. He has published his research in a number of top HCI/design journals including Design Issues, Design Studies, International journal of design, ToCHI - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, the Human- Computer Interaction journal and ACM Interactions. His most recently published book is ‘The Materiality of Interaction’ (MIT press, 2018]. He was most recently appointed as a new co-EIC (Editor-in-chief) for ACM Interactions (2019).