Speakers

Wolfgang Broll (Member, IEEE) received the master's (Dipl.-Inf.) degree in computer science from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, in 1993 and the PhD degree in computer science from Tübingen University, Germany, in 1998. He is a full professor at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, heading the Virtual Worlds and Digital Games group. He was a lecturer at RWTH Aachen from 2000 to 2009. From 1994 to 2012 he was heading the VR/AR activities at Fraunhofer FIT in Sankt Augustin. He was also a co-founders and manager of fayteq. He is an ACM SIGGRAPH pioneer member, member of IEEE Computer Society and Germany's computer society (GI). He is currently concerned with augmented reality related technologies, including diminished and mediated reality. 

Thomas Franke received his PhD from the TU Chemnitz in 2014 with the topic "Sustainable mobility with limited resources: Experience and behavior in dealing with the range of electric vehicles". Since 2016, he has been Professor of Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics at the University of Lübeck. His research interests lie in fields such as sustainability and energy efficiency, health, mobility and automation. His focus is on aspects of user acceptance, user experience, user-system interaction, and interface design. He is also a member of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP) and the IEA Technical Committee Human Factors and Sustainable Development.

Lewis Chuang studied psychology at the University of York (UK) and graduated with a and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. This was followed by a research assistant at the University of Manchester (UK) and a master's degree in and a master's degree in the field of psychology. followed. He then received his doctorate in neuroscience in 2011 with a dissertation on "Recognizing objects from dynamic visual experiences" at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. This was followed by positions as an academic councillor in the Department of Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Human Factors Research in Dortmund, before Lewis Chuang accepted the call to the TU Chemnitz in 2022 for the professorship of Humans and Technology.

Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro is Lecturer at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Lleida, Academic Dean of the Computer Engineering and Digital Design Department of the University of Lleida and Coordinator of the Interuniversity Masters in User Experience of the University of Lleida (Spain) and the Universidad Abierta y a Distancia - UNAD (Colombia). He is the president of the Spanish chapter of ACM SIGCHI (CHISPA), the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) interest group of the Association for Computer Machinery and Chair of the Spanish Association of Human-Computer Interaction (AIPO). In addition, Juan Enrique is member of the Research Group on Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration (GRIHO) and of the HCI Latin-American and Spanish HCI network (HCI-Collab). Since September 2009, Juan Enrique has focused his research on Human-Computer Interaction, awareness, collaborative systems, ubiquity and natural interaction. 

Fabio Buttussi received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Udine. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine, Italy, and a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCI Lab) at the same university. He is also an Associate Editor of the Virtual Reality journal published by Springer Nature. His research interests include HCI, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and serious games. He explores different application domains for his research such as aviation safety, health and fitness, emergency medicine, and sign languages, with a particular focus on training. 

Martin Baumann was a research assistant at the Chair of General and Industrial Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology until 2005, where he received his doctorate in 2001 with the topic "The function of working memory in abductive reasoning: Experimental studies on the mental availability of explained and unexplained observations". Among others, he was a post-doc at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Reasearch) Human Factors and at a research project of the Federal Highway Research Institute. Martin Baumann led the groups "Driver Cognition and Modeling" and "System Ergonomics and Interaction Design" at the Institute of Transportation Systems Engineering at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig. Since 2014, he is profesor at the University of Ulm for the professorship of Human Factors at the Institute of Psychology and Education.

He is head of the research group HMI at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Systems in Braunschweig and Berlin. Additionally, he is adjunct senior lecturer at the German Police University, Unit Transportation Science and Traffic Psychology in Münster. His research interests focus on rethinking human-machine interaction (HMI) and its interface design within transportation systems for a safe, comfortable, and sustainable future mobility. Among other things, he was Researcher and project manager at the Institute of Experimental Industrial Psychology and later Coordinator of the study program business psychology, as well as Senior researcher and lecturer at the Leuphana University Lueneburg.