Julio Abascal-González, B.S.D.
in Physics (1978) and Ph.D in Informatics (1987), is a Professor in the
Computer Architecture and Technology Department of the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU),
Spain where he has worked since 1981. In 1985 he co-founded the
Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction for Special Needs. His current
research activity is focused on ubiquitous, adaptive, and accessible
user interfaces for intelligent environments. He is a member of the
IFIP Technical Committee 13 on "Human Computer Interaction" and of the
"Management Committee of COST 219 ter -Accessibility for All to
Services and Terminals for Next Generation Networks". He has served as
an adviser, reviewer, and evaluator on various EU research programmes.
<julio.abascal@ehu.es>.
Alberto Lafuente-Rojo is an
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Universidad del País Vasco
(UPV-EHU). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Universidad del País Vasco
in 1989, and his MS degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
in 1981. His research interests include distributed algorithms and
systems, fault tolerance, and ubiquitous computing.
<alberto.lafuente@ehu.es>.
Yang Cai
is Director
of Ambient Intelligence Lab and Senior Systems Scientist at the
Institute of Complex Engineered Institute and Cylab, College of
Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and studies
Human Algorithms, Perceptual Computing and Innovation Process. He
received his post doctorial education at Carnegie Mellon University. He
holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from West Virginia University, USA, an MS
in Management Engineering, and BS in Control Engineering from Zhejiang
University, China. <ycai@cmu.edu>.
Tom Gross is an Associate Professor,
chair of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Vice-Dean at
the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar, Germany, and head of the Cooperative Media Lab (CML). His
research interests include Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW),
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Ubiquitous Computing
environments. In these areas he has published numerous articles in
journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters. He has
participated and coordinated activities in various national and
international research projects on the concepts, implementations, and
evaluation of cooperative applications and environments for teams and
online communities for more than ten years now, and has been teaching
at various universities around Europe. He is a member of the IFIP TC.13
on HCI and a member of the Steering Committee of CSCW of the GI; as
well as sitting on programme and organization committees of various
CSCW and HCI conferences (e.g. conference co-chair ACM GROUP 2007, and
conference and programme committee chair of Mensch & Computer
2007). Before joining Bauhaus-Universität
he has been visiting associate professor at the RWTH Aachen in Germany,
senior researcher at the Fraunhofer FIT, and assistant professor at the
Johannes Kepler Universität
(JKU) Linz in Austria. He holds a diploma and a doctorate degree in
Applied Computer Science from the JKU Linz, Austria.
<tom.gross@medien.uni-weimar.de>.
