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KeynotesNuria Oliver, Telefonica Research Bio: Nuria Oliver is currently the Scientific Director for the Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling Research Teams in Telefonica Research (Barcelona, Spain). She received the BSc (honors) and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ETSIT at the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. She received her PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in June 2000. From July 2000 until November 2007, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. At the end of 2007, she returned to Spain to create and lead the Multimedia Scientific Team at Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Since March 2009, she is also the acting Scientific Director for the Data Mining & User Modeling Team in Telefonica Research Her research interest include mobile computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciences, and human computer interaction Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, Eindhoven University of Technology Bio: Dr. Ijsselsteijn has a background in psychology and artificial intelligence, with an MSc in cognitive neuropsychology from Utrecht University, and a PhD in media psychology/HCI from Eindhoven University of Technology. Since 1996, he worked on the scientific investigation of how humans interact with advanced media technologies, such as stereoscopic television, virtual environments, or mobile communication services. He is specifically interested in how to conceptualise and measure the human experience in relation to media. He currently works as an associate professor within the Human-Technology Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. |