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| Human
Factors in Telecommunication
The
current members of the HFT Permanent Steering Committee are listed below. Previous Members can be found on a separate page.
Bruno von Niman (chairman)
Bruno received his M.Sc. in Computer Science, Man-Machine
Interaction
profile, after studies at the Universities of Uppsala, Sweden and
Stuttgart, Germany, in 1993. After a short stop in the world
of academia, he worked for Ericsson for in Stockholm for 10 years
(1994- 2003) with concept and product development, user interaction
design and the user experience of Mobile Enterprise communication
solutions (targeting advanced corporate users). He was the coordinating
of usability activities across the Ericsson Group, both internally and
externally. From December 2003, Bruno runs an independent user
experience consultancy.
He is
continuing as an industry driving force for cross-corporate
collaboration in the area of user experience. He has more than 30
peer-reviewed publications and is a frequent speaker and expert
panelist at global mobile communication events.
Since 1997, Bruno is Vice Chairman of the ETSI Human Factors Technical
Committee, a Specialist Task Force Leader and Expert in several
projects sponsored by the European Commission and member of several
conference program committees related to the area of HCI, usability,
communication and mobility (e.g., Chair of the Mobile Communication
special area at CHI 2004, www.chi2004.org).
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Bruno von Niman vonniman
consulting Dalen
13 13245
Saltsjö-Boo Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 733 66 1234
Email:
bruno@vonniman.com
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Martin
Böcker
Dr. Böcker
studied Psychology and Linguistics at the Technical University in
West-Berlin and at Exeter University, England.
After
working for SEL Alcatel and the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin
working on user interfaces for telecommunications systems, he joined
Siemens ICM in 1997 where he became head of the Siemens ICM Competence
Center for User Interfaces in 2002.
From 2005 onwards, Dr. Böcker was responsible for
software and hardware product innovations at BenQ Mobile in Munich. In
2007, Dr. Böcker re-joined Siemens AG where his is now head of
documentation of Industrial Solutions and Services, Postal Automation.
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Dr. Martin
Böcker Siemens
AG Industrial
Solutions and Services Postal
Automation Division, Sorting Machines Head of Content
Processing Bücklestr.
1-5 78467
Constance Germany
Phone: +49
7531 862521 Mobile: +49 175
2991659
Email: martin.boecker@siemens.com
| | Pedro
Concejero
Pedro is
Doctor (Ph.D.) in Psychology, his dissertation deals with application
of ROC
curve methods for detection in marketing research systems.
After
a period as research fellow and associate professor in Universidad Complutense,
he joins Telefónica
Investigación y Desarrollo, the R&D branch of the Grupo
Telefónica. At the moment of writing this
Telefónica stands in 5th position in the sector Telco
worldwide in terms of market capitalisation the 1st as an European
integrated operator and 8th in the Eurostoxx 50 ranking. As of March
2007, Telefónica’s total number of customers amounted to 206.5
millions.
Pedro
leads the usability group in Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo,
contributing to research projects, as those in the IST and VI Framework
programmes. A main project of the Group at this moment is Telefónica
Accesible, the initiative to promote Design for All in
Telefónica services, products and processes.
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Pedro
Concejero
Telefónica
Investigación y Desarrollo
Emilio
Vargas, 6 28043
Madrid Spain
Phone: +34
91337 3943 Email:
pedro.concejero@tid.es
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Elizabeth
Dykstra-Erickson
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Email: elizabeth.dykstra-erickson@nokia.com
| Stephen Furner
Stephen
is a Senior Technologies Manager at the BT Research laboratories, where
he leads research into human aspects of future technology. He is a
technical specialist leading and carrying out research that challenges
emerging technology to meet real human needs.
Typical
of Stephen’s research are projects such as MoBIC - orientation and
navigation for people with visual disabilities; Teach Speech - the
delivery of speech and language therapy support into the classroom by
videotelephony; or Teletouch - reaching into computationally generated
worlds to touch and feel the objects they contain. He is the
chairman of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Technical Committee for Human Factors.
Stephen
regularly publishes academic papers and has been on national radio and
TV talking about the research he carries out for BT. He originally
joined the company as a trainee technician in London. Here he
qualified as an engineer through part-time study and was subsequently
given special leave to study Psychology & Sociology full time
at
degree level. On graduation he moved to the BT laboratories
Human
Factors Research Unit. | 
Email: stephen.furner@bt.com |
| Ed Israelski
Edmond (Ed) Israelski received a B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, an M.S.
in Operations Research
from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Engineering
Psychology
from Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1970 he joined AT&T
and has worked
as a systems engineer, product manager, market researcher,
industrial/organizational psychologist as well as a human factors
engineer. He was technical manager of the Human Factors Systems group
in the Business Communications Systems unit of Lucent Technologies -
Bell Labs, formerly AT&T. His organization supported the design
and evaluation of user interfaces for large customer communications
products and adjunct systems such as voice and data switches,
multimedia messaging, video conferencing and operations support
systems.
In 1997 Edmond joined SBC/Ameritech, a regional Bell Telephone
Operating Company, where he was the Director of Human Factors. In 2000
he became Chief Technology Office at Human Factors International, a
user interface design and consulting firm.
Ed joined Abbott Laboratories, a medical device and pharmaceutical
company, as Program Manager of Human Factors in 2001. He is leading a
cross-division team to imbed best-practice HF design methods into all
of Abbott's products, as well as doing hands-on design of critical new
medical devices to ensure safety and usability. Ed
is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a
contributing member of the Association
for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Additionally, he is a
member of APA, UPA and CHI. He
is also a Certified Human Factor Professional by the BCPE board.
|  Edmond
W. Israelski
Program Manager - Human Factors Abbott
Laboratories
Dept. 3QC, Bldg. AP6C
100
Abbott Park Road
Abbott Park, IL 60064-6088
USA
Phone:
+1 847 936 1131
Mobile:
+1 847 650 9280
Email: ed.israelski@abbott.com
| Pekka
Ketola
Dr.Pekka Ketola has worked on mobile phone and multimedia
computer
research & development in Nokia since 1995. The special areas
have been mobile user interface design, usability, user experience
management and user interface innovation.
He holds
degrees of MSc and PhD from the Department of Computer Science,
University of Tampere, Finland. His dissertation (2002) studied the
usability
engineering practices in complex concurrent engineering projects. A
special interest area recently has been the implementation of
out-of-box-readiness of consumer devices. He has been on the field
about 15 years and has published numeours scientific papers in journals
and international conferences. He has also authored several patents for
mobile user interfaces. Pekka acts as a reviewer in international HCI
conferences and he has served as Chair and Board member for SIGCHI
Finland. | 
Email: pekka.ketola@nokia.com |
Chee Weng Khong
Chee
Weng is the Head of the Interface Design Department at Multimedia
University, Malaysia. He is also the Deputy Dean of R&D,
Collaboration and Operations at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia. His
professional background is in product design, engineering design and
design ergonomics. His current research activity looks at improving the
usability of local public telecommunication products and services.
Chee
Weng has led several reseach centres at the university including the
Centre for Collaborative Multimedia, Centre for Interpretation and
Expression, and the Centre for Ergonomics since 1998. When he took over
the lead for the Interface Design Department in 2004, he actively
promoted user-centred design in the products, services and applications
for Information and Communication Technologies. Chee Weng’s other
interests include applied Quality Function Deployment in design,
collaborative design (co-design), developing design-based curricula for
Industrially Developing Countries (IDCs) and rapid prototyping.
He
is also the co-Chair for the Interface Design and Ambient Intelligence
(IDAI) Working Group, which is one of the Research Areas under the
auspices of the Malaysian National Research and Education Network
programme. Recently, Chee Weng formed a special interest group in
Universal Usability and Interaction Design. This SIG deals with
usability practices and universal design projects particularly on areas
relating to bridging the digital divide.
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Chee Weng Khong
Interface
Design Department,
Faculty of Creative Multimedia,
Multimedia
University,
63100 Cyberjaya,
Selangor,
Malaysia.
Phone/Fax:
+60 3-83125621
Mobile: +60 12-2698438
Email: cwkhong@mmu.edu.my
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| Lothar Mühlbach
Lothar
studied social sciences and received his Ph.D. degree in psychology
from the Technical University of Berlin in 1985. He joined
the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in 1977; since then he has worked on Human
Factors aspects of interactive media (mainly videocommunications and
groupware). He was the project manager of the project "Telepresence
in the Workplace", which dealt, among other things, with usability
studies
into advanced multimedia desktop conferencing (3D, individually
addressable
eye-contact, etc.). From 1999 till 2002 he had been responsible for an
RTD project on supporting
informal communication within the context of telework and
telecooperation
(e.g. by means of virtual environments). Since autumn 2002 he has
worked on projects dealing with mobile services for citizens.
Lothar is in charge of the Human
Factors Test Center at Fraunhofer HHI.
|  Dr.
Lothar Mühlbach
Fraunhofer Institute für Nachrichtentechnik
- Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
Interactive Media - Human Factors
Einsteinufer 37
10587
Germany Phone: +49
30 31002 237
Mobile: +49 172 447 4848
Email: lothar.muehlbach@hhi.fhg.de
| | Manfred Tscheligi
Manfred Tscheligi is professor for Human-Computer
Interaction & Usability at the
University of
Salzburg , ICT&S Center
(Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and
Communication Technologies & Society. He is founder and
director of CURE, the Vienna
(
Austria ) based Center
for Usability Research & Engineering which is an independent
research organization. He is also founder, co-owner and managing
director of USECON-The Usability Consultants GmbH, an international
usability & user experience engineering consultancy
company.
Manfred has been active in the area of
Interactive Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering,
User Interface Design and User Experience Research for around 20 years.
Manfred Tscheligi has done pioneer work to establish the field in Austria
(both in university education, as research
field as well as an industrially applied field). He is also recognized
and active actor in the international scene (e.g. chairing Mobile HCI 2005 in Salzburg or co-chairing CHI 2004
in
Vienna ).
|  Email: tscheligi@cure.at
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you have got any questions, comments, suggestions, etc., it will be
a pleasure for each of them to be contacted.
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