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Tuesday, June 5th at 9:30 am Panelist, Collaboration Technologies - What's Next?  Prof. Roel Vertegaal Associate Professor Human Media Lab, Queen's University Dr. Roel Vertegaal is one of Canada's foremost designers of highly futuristic interactive technologies. Roel is Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the prestigious Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he directs the Human Media Laboratory. He is also CEO of Xuuk, Inc., a startup that develops attention sensors for interactive, real-world advertising viewing statistics gathering. Roel's first degree is in Electronic Music from Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. He also studied Computing in Britain, Visual Design in The Hague, and holds a PhD in Human Factors from Twente University. Roel is one of the world's experts on eye communication between humans, and between humans and technology. He received the Premier of Ontario's Research Excellence Award for his work on Attentive User Interfaces (AUI), which was featured in media across the globe, from Good Morning America to Scientific American. Roel helped create the first North-American conference on Eye Tracking (ACM ETRA), established ALT.CHI as an alternative papers venue at the annual ACM SIGCHI conference and advised the National Academy of Sciences on AUI. His current work is on the new paradigm of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!). |
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