Keynotes

Swansea University

Presentation title: The Robots are Coming - Be Afraid!

Matt Jones has been working on mobile interaction design for 20+ years. He has written two books on the subject (Mobile Interactions Design, with Gary Marsden; and There's not An App for That, with Simon Robinson and Gary Marsden). His research work has explored a diverse range of mobile topics including small screen browsing; navigation systems; storytelling; digital inclusion; conversational systems; and, deformable devices. He is the Director of one of the UK's national Digital Economy Centres; led on creating the newly opened multimillion pound Computational Foundry; and is the Director of a new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in AI and Big Data - all of these activities but people-first in the pursuit of technological innovation. More at www.undofuture.com

University of Glasgow

Presentation title: Designing New Interfaces for Cars

Steve Brewster's research is all about allowing people to use technology in the richest ways possible. He runs the Multimodal Interaction Group at Glasgow University where they look at how they can use different human senses and control capabilities in user interfaces. Steve is interested in non-speech and 3D sound, haptics and gestures. He applies these to mobile phones, digital cameras, touchscreens and cars. A strong focus is on users who cannot see screens either because they are mobile and looking at the environment around them, or due to a visual impairment.

More at https://about.me/stephenbrewster

Genesys

Presentation title: HCI & UX: An Industry Perspective