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 Human-AI tangible and explainable interactions. She has an educational background in Industrial and Systemic Design and holds a PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), in collaboration with Umeå University, Department of Informatics. She has organized several workshops on the topic of UX, AI and TEI at ACM TEI, NordiCHI and IoT conferences.

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

She is a Senior Research Scientist in Dataminr's AI Group. She designs, builds, and evaluates intelligent systems and interactive visualizations for data exploration, analysis, and augmented decision making. Her research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction, focusing on transparency and control for human-in-the-loop systems to engender appropriate trust, improve performance, and support human-machine collaboration. Alison recently received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and she is active in the explainable artificial intelligence and human-centered machine learning research communities.

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.

Peter Gall Krogh

He is trained as architect and product designer. He is Professor in Design and heads the Socio-Technical Design group at School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, 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.