Workshop organizers
David Geerts was involved in several research projects on user-centred design and evaluation of interactive television at the Centre for Usability Research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Currently he is taking his doctor’s degree on sociability evaluation methods for interactive television. He has organized a workshop at CHI2006: “Investigating new user experience challenges in iTV: mobility & sociability”, and is organizing a workshop at CHI2007: “Supporting non-professional users in the new media landscape”.
Gunnar Harboe is a researcher at Motorola Labs, where he is working on a Social TV research project designing, developing and testing different prototypes that offer communication features integrated with television. Ways to bring people closer together through media is a recurring theme of his research, and his earlier work on social uses of music, “Personal vs. Commercial Content: The Similarities Between Consumer Use of Photos and Music”, was published at CHI2006.
Noel Massey recently returned to Motorola Labs after a sabbatical as a principal partner in a Chicago based startup formed to provide technology to small businesses. He is now part of a Motorola Labs team exploring ways to help people feel socially connected. His primary responsibility is implementing and fielding prototypes and his work with Social TV is providing relevant data for understanding shared yet geographically separate television viewing experiences.