Interacción 2019: XX Congreso Internacional de Interacción Persona-Ordenador

Licenciado en Física (U. de Navarra, 1978) y Doctor en Informática (U. del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 1987), es profesor del Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores de la UPV/EHU, donde trabaja desde 1981. Es director de Egokituz: Laboratorio de interacción hombre-computadora para necesidades especiales, fundado en 1985. Investiga en la aplicación de métodos de Interacción Persona-Computador a la Tecnología de Asistencial, incluidas las interfaces de usuario ubicuas, adaptables y accesibles, y las interfaces persona-robot asistenciales. Además, trabaja en métodos y herramientas para mejorar la accesibilidad sensorial, física y cognitiva a la Web. Desde 1991 hasta 2018 fue el representante español en el Comité TC13 en HCI de IFIP, y el fundador (en 1993) y primer presidente del IFIP WG 13.3 "HCI y discapacidad". Ha sido asesor, revisor y evaluador en diversos planes de investigación de la UE (TIDE, TAP, IST, etc.) desde 1990.

Effie Lai-Chong Law is a full professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK. Her main research focus is Usability and User Experience (UX) methodologies which are applicable to various domains, including technology-enhanced learning, games and gamification, health and wellbeing. Effie has chaired two COST Actions – MAUSE focusing on usability and TwinTide on UX - and played a leading role in other European and national research projects to which she has contributed her HCI expertise. Her recent work is on the measurability and theoretical frameworks of UX and automatic multisensory emotion detection.

Dr. Oliver is a computer scientist. She is Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vodafone Institute, Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance, an independent director on the board of directors of Bankia, and Commissioner of the Presidency of Valencia for AI and COVID-19. Previously, she was Director of Data Science Research at Vodafone, Scientific Director at Telefónica and researcher at Microsoft Research. She holds a PhD from the Media Lab at MIT, and is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, a member of the board of ELLIS, and elected permanent member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.