Michael Smyth is a Reader in the Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has worked in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design since 1987 and has published over 50 academic papers in refereed journals, books and conferences. In addition he has had interactive installations exhibited at both UK and international conferences and arts & design festivals. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book entitled Digital Blur: creative practice at the boundaries of architecture, design and art.

DK Arvind is a Reader in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and CITRIS Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (2007-11). He was previously for four years a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He is the founder Director and Principal Investigator of the Research Consortium in Speckled Computing (www.specknet.org)– a multidisciplinary grouping of computer scientists, electronic engineers, electrochemists and physicists from five universities, to research the next generation of miniature wireless sensor networks. The Consortium has attracted research funding in the excess of £5.2 Million from the Scottish Funding Council and the EPSRC. His research interests include the design, analysis and integration of miniature networked embedded systems which combine sensing, processing and wireless networking capabilities.

Speckled Computing affords new modes of unencumbered interaction with the digital world. The specks have been used for fully wireless, full-body 3-D motion capture of human motion in a variety of applications.

Jesse Hoey is a Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and an adjunct scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on planning and acting in large scale real-world uncertain domains. He has worked extensively on systems to assist persons with cognitive and physical disabilities, primarily by modeling their visual behaviors using computer vision. Recently, he won the Microsoft/AAAI Distinguished Contribution Award at the 2009 IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, for his paper on technology to facilitate creative expression in persons with dementia. More information on Dr. Hoey can be found at his website www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/jessehoey/

Sietske Kloosters, product designer from Amsterdam.
The work I do on Choreography of Interaction started with my education at the University of Technology in Delft, where I graduated to be an industrial design engineer. This work is inspired by my passion for dance, which I practice since childhood. During my graduation project I started to develop 'Choreography of Interaction' as a personal design approach, as a cross-pollination of my knowledge and experience in both design and dance. Since then I work with Choreography of Interaction, as an independent designer and in cooperation with the DQI researchers at the department of Industrial Design of the University of Technology in Eindhoven. My work involves ongoing research and development of the approach itself, and bringing it into practice in design education, guest lectures, workshops, consultancy, design projects and projects in the field of performance arts.

Richard Coyne is Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE). His research examines the relationship between computing, design, and contemporary cultural theories. He is currently investigating the way pervasive digital devices - smartphones, iPods, GPS navigations systems, and cameras, among others - influence the way we use spaces. Richard Coyne is the author of influential books such as: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age' (1995), 'Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism and the Romance of the Real' (1999), and 'The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media' (due out Spring 2010).