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About the organizers
Susan Dray is a consultant with Dray & Associates, Inc. and has worked with HCI professionals in so called " developing" countries to help them build their own communities, as well as to help them to adapt user-centered design approaches to make them useful in economic development projects. In addition, she works with clients to help them understand the conditions in these countries so they can design more appropriate ICT systems and products for the " developing" world.
Ann Light is chair of trustees for The Fiankoma Project (www.fiankoma.org), a charity promoting cultural exchange through ICT by linking people in the UK and Ghana and establishing collaborative media projects. She is a research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, exploring people's understanding of and response to digital networks to inform interactive systems design, in Chile and India as well as the UK. Ann is also editor of usabilityNews.com.
Melissa Ho is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of
Information at University of California, Berkeley.
Recipient of the 2008 Yamashita Foundations for
Change Prize, she is currently investigating how the
introduction of mobile phone-based forms changes
formal and informal social processes around health
information management in Uganda.
Matthew Kam is a Ph.D. candidate from the University
of California, Berkeley with a background in economics,
education, and computer science. His Ph.D. dissertation
investigates how e-learning games on cellphones can
impart literacy in a "power language" to rural children
in developing nations. Starting Jan. 2009, Matthew will
join the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as
Assistant Professor.
Neesha Kodagoda is Ph.D. student at Middlesex
University, UK supervised by Professor William Wong
and Dr Nawaz Khan. Her research is on improving
information systems and information visualization that
would assist & motivate low-literacy adults in
information search and retrieval.
Nithya Sambasivan (point of contact) is a Ph.D.
student in the Department of Informatics at the
University of California, Irvine. She has a Master's in
HCI from Georgia Tech. Her research interests include
HCI4D, ubiquitous computing, and sustainability.
Kentaro Toyama is assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India (MSR India), which opened in Bangalore in January, 2005; he played a critical role in establishing the lab and is responsible for helping guide its direction and growth. In addition to his responsibilities to MSR India overall, Kentaro leads the Technology for Emerging Markets research group as a principal researcher, and is a co-founder of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD).
John Thomas is a Research Staff Member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He has worked in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction for 30 years and has over 150 papers, book chapters, and invited presentations. He has also served as Workshop Chair and general Co-Chair for CHI and co-organized and co-led more than a dozen workshops at CHI, CSCW, and ECSCW including two on cross-cultural issues in HCI.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Indrani Medhi (Microsoft Research, India)
Andrew Dearden (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (Thames Valley University, UK)
Ban Al-Ani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Michael Best (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Matt Jones (University of Swansea)
Yishay Mor (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Osvaldo Rodriguez (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Josh Underwood (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab, UK)