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Conference Chairs
For general enquiries about HCI 2007 please email
Corina Sas or
HCI 2007 Conference,
FAO: Corina Sas
Computing Department,
Infolab 21,
South Drive,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster,
LA1 4WA, UK.
Tel No: +44 (0) 1524 510318
Fax No: +44 (0) 1524 510492
Conference Co-chairs
Dr Corina Sas has been appointed as a lecturer in HCI in Computing Department, University of Lancaster, since May 2004. Her current research areas are spatial cognition and behavior in virtual reality, usability studies, user modelling, individual differences and sense of presence.
Prior to joining Computing Department she was a scholar reading for a PhD in Computer Science at the University College Dublin, Ireland on the topic of individual differences in navigating and experiencing presence in desktop Virtual Environments.
Her previous studies include a MA in Industrial and Organisational Psychology from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science and a BA in Psychology, from the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania, where she also worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associated Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.
Tom Ormerod is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and currently HoD of the Psychology Department at Lancaster University, with research interests in human reasoning & problem-solving, collaborative information handling and technologies for supporting expert decision-making.
He has held over £1m RCUK grants to conduct research on the design and evaluation of interactive systems for supporting expert problem-solving performance, most recently a grant under the DTI/EPSRC Management of Information Initiative on the nature and support of expertise in detecting and investigating insurance fraud.
His PhD was on Cognitive Processes in Logic Programming, and he held lectureships at Warwick and Loughborough Universities before coming to Lancaster in 1994. He co-authored a textbook with Mark Lansdale called 'Understanding Interfaces: A Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction'.
His hobbies include dry-stone walling, playing guitar and eating.
