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Rob van Kranenburg (1964) graduated cum laude in Literary Theory at Tilburg University (Nl). He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam to work as a programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as a teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was too young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. For the past two years he has been working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network organization for e-culture, as interim and now as co-director. One day is for teaching (mostly at Arts and Design Academies). As innovation consultant he is mainly involved with negotiability strategies of new technologies, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.

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Glorianna Davenport is Principal Research Scientist and founding member of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she directs the Media Fabrics group (formerly the Interactive Cinema group). Trained as a documentary filmmaker, her benchmark research explores fundamental issues related to collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences where
the task of narration is shared among authors, consumers, and computer mediators. Davenport’s contributions to the field of digital entertainment span 3 decades and are both theoretical and practical. From 2000-2004 she directed the Story Networks Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, a lab she co-founder. Davenport’s research has been extensively published in IEEE, Leonardo,and Scientific America.  Her work has been exhibited at numerous international conferences, film festivals and museum exhibitions. She is recipient of MIT's prestigious Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Award for Excellence in the Arts.  Davenport holds a BA from Mt. Holyoke College and an MA from Hunter College.

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Stephen Emmott is responsible for all of Microsoft Corp.’s external research programs, strategy and policy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is the architect of the External Research Office EuroScience Initiative, which is focused on developing exploratory, long-range research programs and collaborations in highly novel areas with the potential to reshape computing and society, including nonclassical computation, scientific computing, computational biology and social-centric technology innovation. Emmott’s role is vital to extending and increasing Microsoft Research Cambridge’s position and function in the European region.

Emmott has a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience and has worked in pioneering research fields at the intersection of computing and science for almost two decades. He has held appointments at BT Laboratories, AT&T Labs and, most recently, at NCR Corp. There, he was chief scientist and managing director of NCR’s internationally acclaimed advanced research lab, the Knowledge Lab, which he founded and led, the work of which captured industry and media imagination worldwide. He holds several patents in science and technology.

Emmott continues to hold an appointment as visiting professor at University College London (UCL), where he is also a member of the board of advisors. He sits on the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Science and Innovation Framework committee, is an advisor to the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is an advisor to the Swiss National Science Foundation, and has been an advisor to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry.

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Erik Geelhoed (1950) studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and worked in research at the Universities of Plymouth, Birmingham and Bristol before joining Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1992. He has a strong interest in applying sound psychological method and sound statistical technique, and has undertaken a diverse range of qualitative and quantitative studies including field trials, controlled laboratory experiments, large scale surveys and in-depth interview studies.

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Joyce H.D.M. Westerink (1960) studied physics at Utrecht University, and graduated in 1985. Since then, she joined Philips Research and specialized on topics involving human perception and cognition of consumer products: visual perception of display devices, user-friendliness of home entertainment systems, and sensory aspects of personal care products. The first 14 years she did this research on detachment at IPO (the Institute for Perception Research, later known as the Center for User-System Interaction), and since 1999 she is member of the Personal Care Institute (PCI), a research group at Philips Research dedicated to personal care products. Written output of her work can be found in some 35 articles in books and international journals, a Ph.D. dissertation on ‘Perceived image quality in static and dynamic images’ and 7 US patents.

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Ryohei Nakatsu received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1969, 1971 and 1982 respectively. After joining NTT in 1971, he mainly worked on speech recognition technology. In 1994, he joined ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) as the president of ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories.

From the spring of 2002 he is a professor at School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University. At the same time he established a venture company, Nirvana Technology Inc., and became a president of the company. His research interests includes emotion extraction from speech and facial images, emotion recognition, nonverbal communications, and integration of multi modalities in communications.

In 1978, he received Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (IEICE-J). In 1996, the best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia. In 1999, 2000 and 2001, Telecom System Award from Telecommunication System Foundation and the best paper award from Virtual Reality Society of Japan. In 2000, the best paper award from Artificial Intelligence Society of Japan.

He is a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (IEICE-J), a member of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Information Processing Society of Japan, and Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

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Stefan M. Grünvogel's mission is to advance the collaboration between scientists, artists and developers. He did research in various areas, starting with mathematical control theory, character animation and interaction in mixed realities, non-linear storytelling, formal models in game design, and aesthetics of computer games. He took his diploma and his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Augsburg in Germany, where he investigated controllability properties of chaotic systems. After working for some time in the industry, he spent several years at the Laboratory for Mixed Realities at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where he got in close contact with media arts. There he was responsible for the development of a character animation system for an augmented reality environment for planning stages. He participated in numerous projects ranging from non-linear storytelling for virtual environments up to a documentary film on out-of-body experiences. As invited professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, he worked on formal models for game design.

Together with other colleagues, Stefan founded the non-profit organization NOMADS Lab.

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Mark Overmars is a full professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Here he heads the Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments (www.give.nl). His main research interests include motion planning, virtual environments, and game design. He also teaches courses on game design at Utrecht University. Mark Overmars is heavily involved in the Utrecht Platform for Game Education and Research (UPGEAR), see (www.upgear.nl). This collaboration between Utrecht University, the "Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht", and the "Hogeschool van Utrecht" has as a goal to promote education and research in the area of game design and technology in the Netherlands.

Mark Overmars is also the creator of the Game Maker softwarepackage for creating computer games (www.gamemaker.nl) that is used all over the world for education and fun.

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Jurrie Hobers started his career in the entertainment industry in 1990 when this industry was just fresh. He saw then already the great power and future of digital entertainment.

He initially started in mail-order and a shop. This in 3 years grew out to a distribution business delivering products and formulas to more than 2.000 retailers in the Benelux. As a self taught marketer he then moved to Brussels to work for a multimedia dependence of Emtec (part of BASF). In that time he was responsible for the introduction of Tomb Raider in several versions. After Emtec was sold because the multimedia entertainment did no longer fit in the portfolio of BASF he joined Atoll Soft - the largest independent distributor of videogames in the Benelux. At Atoll Soft he was responsible for the Eidos publishing label for the Benelux.

Since 2000 Jurrie is working for Codemasters in which he is responsible for the Benelux office and to make sure the full market potential in sales, marketing and communications is being used for the Codemasters products.

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Ed Tan (1951) has been a professor in Media Entertainment since 2003 at the University of Amsterdam. He did research into the emotional experience of movies and digital media, and was involved with product research in the field of digital assistance for the distribution of cultural media.

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