Organizers
The IDSYMPOSIUM'08 is organized by
Michael Burmester
Prof. Dr. Michael Burmester studied psychology at the University of Regensburg in southern Germany. He started his career as a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart. In 1997, he joined Siemens Corporate Technology – User Interface Design as a usability consultant and researcher for usability engineering. From March 2000 until August 2002, he has been head of the Munich office and head of the Usability Engineering department of User Interface Design GmbH, a software and usability consultancy company. He finished his PhD. in psychology on user interfaces for elderly people at university of Wuppertal in 2001. Since September 2002 he is professor for ergonomics and usability and head of the usability research laboratory at the Stuttgart Media University (course of study Information Design – german website).
Marc Hassenzahl
Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl is Professor for Economic Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction at the Folkwang University. During his time as free-lance usability consultant, usability engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology, senior consultant for the User Interface Design GmbH, and researcher at the University of Technology Darmstadt, he led or was involved in numerous Human-Computer Interaction projects ranging from the gathering of usability requirements for a new Siemens CT scanner to the development of a tool to measure product quality for Nokia. He is currently president of the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association. Among his interests are usability engineering, user experience, aesthetics, new analysis and evaluation methods for the design of interactive products. He is particular interested in the positive affective and motivational aspects of interactive technologies, such as joy, fun, pride, surprise – in short: User Experience. Games, in this respect, are thought of as "models" to better understand underlying affective and motivational processes and games design as a discipline knowledgeable of how to design for them.
Since 1997, he published over 30 journal papers / book chapters and gave over 40 talks. He co-organized a whole series of conference workshops on User Experience starting with the "Funology"-workshop on CHI 2002 (with Mark Blythe and Andrew Monk). In 2006, he edited a special issue of Behaviour and Information Technology on "Empirical Studies of the User Experience" together with Noam Tractinsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).
www.marc-hassenzahl.de
Franz Koller
Franz Koller, graduate computer scientist, has been managing director of User Interface Design GmbH (UID) since 1998 and is in charge of Consumer Solutions. Previously, he worked at the Fraunhofer IAO, managing the market strategy team of Interactive Products.
The combination of usability and design is one of the challenges that Franz Koller and his team successfully copes with when developing and improving interactive products.
Being a co-initiator and editor of the standard DIN EN ISO 14915, Franz Koller set a benchmark in software ergonomics for multimedia user interfaces. Franz Koller is a member in the industry committee of the field of study of Information Design at the Media University at Stuttgart.
