CHI 2006 Workshop
Reality Testing:
HCI Challenges in Non-Traditional Environments
April 22, 2006 * Hyatt Regency * Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Organizers

Gisele Bennett, PhD, GTRI, Georgia Tech

Gisele is with Georgia Tech as a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director for the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory for the GT Research Institute. Her research is broad covering optical imaging and encryption to the development of performance support systems as applied to the maintenance, medical, and emergency response environments.

Kay H. Connelly, PhD, SURG, Indiana University

Kay is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University, where she leads the Security for Ubiquitous Resources Group. Her research is in the area of ubiquitous computing, where she is developing a framework that relates, explains, and predicts a variety of factors that play into user acceptance of ubiquitous computing applications.

Gitte Lindgaard, PhD, HOTLab, Carleton University

Dr. Gitte Lindgaard heads the HOTLab as the NSERC Chair in User-Centred Design. Her research interests are in qualitative user experiences, human decision making, multimedia and multimodal user interface design, learning in multimedia, user satisfaction, aesthetics in design, and design processes.

Katie A. Siek, PhD Candidate, SURG, Indiana University

Katie is a National Physical Science Consortium fellow who is sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories/CA. Her research interests focus on integrating technologies in healthcare environments and conducting user studies in non-traditional environments.

Bruce Tsuji, PhD Candidate, HOTLab, Carleton University

Bruce holds a BSc from Trent and an MA from Waterloo. He has about 25 years experience in user interface design, usability testing, product management, sales, business development, and marketing. Bruce is a co-inventor of a total of seven US and Canadian patents and his products have received kudos including PC Week Labs Product of the Year and Consumer Electronics Association Product of the Year.