Tom Rodden

Professor of Interactive Systems
University of Nottingham

Tom Rodden is Professor of Interactive Systems at the Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Equator IRC. Tom's research interests focus on the development of new technological arrangements to support groups of users. This has involved working closely with a diverse set of disciplines and has also involved both methodological and design contributions and novel infrastructures, platforms and applications. He has published in the areas of HCI, Ubiquitous Computing and CSCW.

Link to: Equator Website

Kieron O'Hara

Senior Research Fellow in Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton

Kieron O'Hara is a senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, researching into social, technological and managerial aspects of knowledge. He specialises in knowledge technologies for the Semantic Web, in particular looking at the management of communities of practice and the generation and maintenance of trust. He is the author of Trust: From Socrates to Spin (2004), and Plato and the Internet (2002). His After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher was published in February 2005.

Link to: AKT Webpage

Richard Harper

Senior Researcher, Interactive Systems Group
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Richard Harper is senior researcher in Microsoft's Interactive Systems Group, at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC) in the UK. Previously he was involved with The Appliance Studio, prior to which he led an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Surrey, where he was appointed the UK's first Professor of Socio-Digital Systems.

His reputation has been built in two main areas: first of all, for understanding user needs in future forms of knowledge rich work environments, where his recent book, The Myth of the Paperless Office, (MIT: 2002) co-authored with Abi Sellen, has become a benchmark for studies of office settings; second, for his explorations of user-driven needs for mobile and handheld technologies. His books here include The Wireless World, (Springer, 2001) and Inside Text: social and design perspectives on SMS (Kluwer, forthcoming).

Link to: Microsoft Research Webpage