Ekaterina Stepanova is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University with a background in cognitive science, developmental psychology, and virtual reality. Her research employs somaesthetics and embodied cognition to design mediated experiences with bioresponsive and immersive technologies.
Alice C. Haynesis a Digital Futures Research Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has focused on creating haptic and shape-changing interfaces for well-being and interpersonal communication, which has included engaging with biodata such as breathing. She is currently working with soma design methods to create tangible devices for body-based interactions.
Laia Turmo Vidal is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her work combines research through design, embodiment theories and body-centered design methodologies to design body transformation experiences through wearable and bio-responsive technologies – towards enabling new ways for people to engage with and experience their bodies.
Francesco Chiossi is a PhD researcher in the Media Informatics Group at LMU Munich. With a background in cognitive neuroscience, he focuses on implicit measures of human behavior, such as EDA and EEG, as an implicit input to design physiologically-adaptive Mixed Reality systems.
Abdallah El Ali is an HCI research scientist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam within the Distributed & Interactive Systems group. He leads the research area on Affective Interactive Systems, combining advances in HCI, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence to measure, infer, and augment human cognitive, affective, and social interactions.
Luis Quinterois an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, specializing in behavioral modeling using machine learning and AI within immersive extended reality (XR) systems. His research centers on creating adaptive, personalized XR environments by integrating physiological data from wearables and real-time behavioral analytics.
Yoav Luft is a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. My research examines how designers engage with algorithms and computations when designing for digital intimate touch, including how designers engage in sense-making of biodata such as breathing, heart-rate, skin-conductivity, EMG and the like. My research approach is deeply influenced by soma design, and attempts to answer these questions from an embodied, experiential focused perspective.
Nadia Campo Woytuk (she/they) is a PhD student in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, exploring critical feminist design of technologies for the intimate body and the social and environmental ecologies it entangles. She mainly uses Research through Design methods, including making with textiles and biomaterials, as well as participatory and speculative approaches.
Sven Mayer is an assistant professor at LMU Munich. His research sits at the intersection between HCI and Artificial Intelligence, where he focuses on the next generation of computing systems. He uses artificial intelligence to design, build, and evaluate future human-centered interfaces.