Organization

General Chairs

  • Volker Sorge – University of Birmingham, UK
  • Elaine Pearson – Teesside University, UK

Contact: gc2019 at w4a dot info

Local Organising Chair

  • Ted Drake – Intuit, US

Program Chairs

  • Amy Hurst – New York University, US
  • Carlos Duarte – University of Lisbon, PT

Contact: pc2019 at w4a dot info

Challenge Chairs

  • Sarah Horton, The Paciello Group, US
  • Yu Zhong, Google, US

Contact: cc2019 at w4a dot info

Doctoral Consortium

  • Helen Petrie, University of York, UK
  • Hironobu Takagi, IBM

Contact: dc2019 at w4a dot info

IBM Awards Chairs

  • Yevgen Borodin, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Chieko Asakawa, Watson Research Center, USA

Contact: ibm at w4a dot info

Student Awards Chairs

  • TBD

Contact: sc2019 at w4a dot info

Steering Committee

  • Chris Bailey (2018- ) – UXPA UK, Enabling Insights Ltd.
  • Jeff Bigham (2018- ) – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Greg Gay (2016- ) Ryerson University, Canada (Website)
  • Yevgen Borodin (2014-) Stony Brook University, USA. (Publicity chair).
  • Markel Vigo (2012-) University of Manchester, UK. (Finance).
  • Yeliz Yesilada (Founder / 2003-) Middle East Technical University (METU), Northern Cyprus. (Sponsorship)
  • Simon Harper (Founder / 2003-) University of Manchester, UK. (WWW Liaison).

Contact: steering at w4a dot info

Advisory Committee

  • Vivienne Conway (2017-) Edith Cowan University, Australia
  • Luz Rello (2017- ) Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Tiago Guerreiro (2016-) University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Luis CarriƧo (2015-) University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Silvia Mirri (2015-) University of Bologna, Italy
  • Jeff Bigham (2014-) Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Giorgio Brajnik (2013-) University of Udine, Italy
  • Leo Ferres (2011-) Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  • Hironobu Takagi (2010-) IBM Research, Japan
  • Chieko Asakawa (2010-) IBM Research, Japan
  • David Sloan (2009-) The Paciello Group, UK.

Contact: advisory at w4a dot info