Alan Dix
Swansea University (UK)
Alan Dix is Director of the Computational Foundry, Swansea University, a 30 million pound initiative to boost computational research in Wales with a strong focus on creating social and economic benefit. His work in academia and industry has included formalism in HCI, CSCW, mobile HCI, some of the earliest work on privacy and algorithmic bias, creativity, physical computing, educational technology and a smattering of submarine design. He co-authored one of the major textbooks in HCI and has run a twice yearly maker/meeting event on Tiree, a remote Scottish island, which has brought designers, techies, artists and philosophers together, introducing them to some of the IT issues of marginal communities. In 2013, as part of his research practice, he walked a thousand miles around Wales.
Shaimaa Lazem
City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (Egypt)
Shaimaa Lazem is an academic researcher at the City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), a research institute in Alexandria, Egypt. At SRTA-City she established a research program in human-computer interaction (HCI). Her research interests include participatory design, cross-cultural collaborations, post-colonial computing, and decolonizing HCI. Her previous projects included designing low-cost education and health technologies and applying learner-centered and flexible learning pedagogies for teaching computer science and HCI. Lazem has experience working with rural communities. She is the Egyptian lead of a UK-Egypt project to engage Egyptian Bedouins in self-documenting their intangible heritage using mobile phones. She was recently awarded the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship with the Royal Academy of Engineering in London to design an archival platform for marginalized communities to self-document their indigenous knowledge. Lazem is the Chair of the Cairo ACM SIGCHI Professional Chapter in Egypt (CairoCHI) and the Co-founder of the ArabHCI community.
Eunice Sari
UX Indonesia
Dr. Eunice Sari is the CEO and Co-Founder of UX Indonesia. She is the University Fellow of Charles Darwin University Australia. Currently, she is the ACM SIGCHI VP for Chapters and Asian Development Committee for Southeast Asia. As an active academic and leading UX practitioner, Eunice has also been also a Google Developer Expert on Product Design and Global Mentor for Google Launchpad, where she leads a number of Digital Technology and HCI movements in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia.
Michalis Xenos
University of Patras (Greece)
Michalis Xenos is a professor at Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) of University of Patras (2016-today) and the Director of the “Software Quality and Human-Computer Interaction” Laboratory. He was one of the first faculty members of the Hellenic Open University (Professor 2000-2016), where he served as the Director of the Postgraduate Course of Computer Science (2009-2011), the Director of the Computer Science Course (2013-2016), the Director of the Internal Assessment Unit (2006-2016) and the Director of the HCI Laboratory (2002-2016). His teaching experience includes CEID (1994-1998), Mathematics Department of Patras University (1998-2000), and Open University of Cyprus (2008-2012). His research interests are shared among Human-Computer-Interaction and Educational Technologies. He has participated in 46 research and development projects, he has authored or co-authored 8 books and over 200 papers in international journals and conferences, that have received over 2,500 citations (h-index 24). He has given 4 keynote speeches in International Conferences (two on HCI and two on Educational Technologies).