Out of the many applications for this popular BCS sponsored annual event, 12 research students were selected for participation in the Doctoral Consortium. The selection was done on the basis of the following:

• relevance of research to conference themes
• soundness of the research approach taken
• the extent to which the student is at a stage of the PhD in which major benefits can be obtained by participating in the Doctoral Consorium (i.e. not too early and not too late).

The following research students take part in the HCI 2006 Doctoral Consortium:

1. Maria Nilsson
   University of Skovde, Sweden
   Rethinking HCI for Information Fusion and Decision Support
   
   
2. Matt Billings
   Bath University, UK
   Passive and active mediation: can conciliation inform CMC research?
   
   
3. Valentina Lichtner
   City University London, UK
   Patient Identification and Electronic Healthcare Systems
   
   
4. Sama'a Al Hashimi
   Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, UK
   Paralinguistic Vocal Control of Interactive Media
   
   
5. Åsa Cajander
   Uppsala University, Sweden
   Usability and User's Health Issues
   
   
6. Luke Okelo
   Liverpool John Moore University, UK
   Ambient Intelligence In Support Of Spatial Navigation For The Blind
   
   
7. Thomas K. Yates
   University of Nottingham, UK
   Fidelity requirements of a human factors research train driver simulator
   
   
8. Abdallah Namoune
   Manchester University
   An Automatic Web User Attention Analyser
   
   
9. Sascha Mahlke
   Technical University of Berlin, Germany
   Studying emotions and non-instrumental qualities as parts of the user experience
   
   
10. Joanna Jakubowska
    University of Glasgow, UK
    Genome Visualisation
    
    
11. Diana (Yifan) Xu
    University of Central Lancashire
    Design and Evaluation of Tangible Interface for Children
    
    
12. Andrea Kleinsmith
    University of Aizu, Japan
    Affective Posture Recognition: Human Factors and Modelling