Jessica Korte is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology’s School of Computer Science. She is passionate about PD’s potential to empower individuals and communities. She developed a PD approach for designing with young Deaf children , and her major research focus is the participatory design of sign language technologies with the Australian Deaf community.
Marie Boden is an Interaction Design researcher and educator at the University of Queensland. Marie collaborates closely with users in co-design and participatory design projects. Her main research interest is in social robotics and design of technology to support teaching and learning.
Jerry Fails is Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Boise State University in Idaho, USA. He has designed technologies with and for children using participatory design methods for more than twenty years. He currently is focusing on supporting children: as they search for materials online, to better understand and more safely navigate online spaces (security and privacy), and as they interact with others in extended reality.
Gavin Sim is a Reader in Human Computer Interaction. He has worked at UCLan since 2002. His research interests are in the area of HCI and educational technology, in particular usability / user experience evaluation methods. He is an active researcher within the ChiCI group, where his focus has been on evaluating user experience and usability within games and educational technology. He has written method papers for IDC, and has worked with the BBC.
Janet Read is a pioneer in the research area of Child Computer Interaction. She currently directs the UCLan Research Centre for Digital Life and leads the Child Computer Interaction Research group.
Aurora Constantin is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, UK. Her research focuses on designing technology for individuals with special needs (e.g. children with autism), and employing participatory approaches with various stakeholders. Currently she is working on designing an Artificial Intelligence-based tool to help children with autism understand social situations.
Sanjana Bhatnagar is an Associate Lecturer \& Researcher at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She has experience in Design Thinking, Human Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, and Interactive Technology.
Judith Good is Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research interests focus on the co-design of new technologies for children, with and without disabilities. She is also interested in developing new participatory methodologies for typically marginalised populations to have greater involvement in both the design and evaluation of new technologies.
Eva Eriksson is an Associate professor in Interaction design at Aarhus University in Denmark. Eva specializes in developing technologies through participatory design in the field of human-computer interaction with a focus on public learning institutions.