Special Invited Guest: Gilbert Cockton
Gilbert Cockton is a Professor in Northumbria University’s internationally renowned School of Design in Newcastle upon Tyne. His research interests focus on garnering and exploiting human insights for design and evaluation. Gilbert has a strong interdisciplinary background, with a Cambridge MA and PGCE in History and Education (first class honours) and a PhD in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Gilbert delights in softening up boundaries between academic disciplines, research and practice, public and private sectors, arts and sciences, creativity and rigour, and theory and practice. His career has mixed blue skies and applied research, education from primary schools to PhDs, business support, professional practice, invention, consultancy and training, and a few years of part-time childcare.
Gilbert has held leadership roles at regional, national and international levels, including vice-chair of the regional board that created CODEWORKS, chair of the British Interaction group (2001-4), vice-chair of IFIP’s international technical committee on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and 2003 co-chair of the world’s largest annual HCI conference (ACM CHI). He is currently scientific co-ordinator for a 25 country European network on design and evaluation methods. Since 1985, he has published almost 190 scientific and professional papers, books, features, reports and articles, delivered 185 invited presentations (including keynotes in 7 countries), supervised or examined over 50 research students, and managed research and enterprise projects with a total value exceeding €10m. In his spare time he lives near the beach to the east of Newcastle, with his wife, daughter and son.
Jonathan Arnowitz
Jonathan is a Principal User Experience Designer and Strategist at Stroomt. Formerly, Jonathan was a Senior User Experience Architect at Google, SAP Labs and the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions Magazine. Jonathan was also a senior user experience designer at PeopleSoft and a leading HCI consultant in the Netherlands.
Jonathan is also a volunteer for ACM/SIGCHI where among other things he was the co-founder of the DUX conference (Designing for User Experiences), former editor in chief of
Iwan Cuijpers
Iwan is Managing partner, Design Lead and Strategist at Stroomt. Before starting Stroomt in 2003 he worked projects for ABN AMRO, ASML and the Dutch Tax Services. Since that time he has been working for clients such as SNS Bank and SNS REAAL, Reed Business, Utrecht University, Beter Horen, Blgg and MVO Nederland.
Maarten Woldering
Maarten is Managing partner and Senior Information Architect at Stroomt. Before starting Stroomt in 2003 he worked projects for ABN AMRO, SHELL, Randstad Europe, the Dutch Tax Services and the Centrum voor Werk en Inkomen (CWI). Since then he has done projects for clients such as ICTU, Reed Business, Thieme Meulenhoff, Amsterdam-Noord, ING and ASML.
Dirk-Jan Hoets
Dirk Jan Hoets has been a Senior User Experience Specialist under the Flipside name for years. During and after his study Psychology (specialising in cognitive ergonomics) he has been involved in projects as a designer and developer of user-friendly solutions for: ING Bank, Philips Design, DSM, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, Cap Gemini, Cambridge Technology Partners and Newmonday.
Furthermore he is an experienced trainer teaching topics such as usbilty, interaction design and effective prototyping for over three years now. As a UX specialist he has also made his mark on solutions by conducting user research such as target audience analysis, task analysis and usability tests.