Co-chairs
Hsuan-Yi Wu (Jen) holds B.A.A. in international business from National Taiwan University and MSc innovation management and entrepreneurship from Manchester Business School, UK. Currently she is PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Graduate School of Business Administration, specialising in technology and innovation management at the National Taiwan University. In addition, she is also working for a government funded research institute, Institute for Information Industry (III), to coordinate and promote cloud ecosystems in Taiwan. As a young talent in the area of science fiction prototyping, she has published two SFPs (‘The Spiritual Machine’ & ‘The Programmer and the Widow’) plus a journal paper (Imagination Workshops) which has built up the foundation for the proposed workshop ‘Imagine 2014’. She has proved good at facilitating brainstorming amongst multi‐disciplinary teams, inspiring people to generate innovative ideas and showing them how to realise them by taking actions. Her experience in business consulting and start‐up business planning during the past 10 years has enabled entrepreneurs to successfully initiate their companies or develop new business.
Victor Callaghan is professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex. He is a founder of the international annual IEEE sponsored conference, Intelligent Environments (being program chair for 8 years of its 10 years), founder member of the iCampus conference and past program chair of Active Media Technology, Pervasive Computing & Applications and Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing conferences He is a founder member of the Creative Science Foundation and co‐organiser of the associated conferences. He is an Associate Editor of Intelligent buildings International, co‐editor of the Transactions of Future Intelligent Educational Environments and Science and Fiction, plus a member of the editorial teams of Pervasive Computing & Communications, Ambient and Intelligence and Smart Environments journals and editor of countless book, He has published well over 300 papers on intelligent systems and received in excess of 2 million pounds of research funding in this area.
Anasol Peña-Rios is a PhD Candidate at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering and member of the Intelligent Environments Research Group (IEG) and the Immersive Education Lab (iEL) both based at the University of Essex, UK. Additionally she is member of IEEE, ACM, BCS and ALT and works as Information Officer at iED Europe, the European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative.
She completed an MSc in Advanced Web Engineering at the University of Essex, UK and a BEng in Information Technology at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico and has several years of work experience in different financial institutions in Mexico in the areas of web development and IT audit & security. Currently, her research focuses on the different interactions within a blended reality distributed environment, providing a platform to enable numerous real and virtual intelligent environments (across the world) to be connected together and changing perception of environments/spaces from one-dimensional (physical) to multi-dimensional (physical and virtual); extending human capabilities into a computer-generated spaces able to reflect information in real time. She has published 7 papers on related topics.
Victor Callaghan is professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex. He is a founder of the international annual IEEE sponsored conference, Intelligent Environments (being program chair for 8 years of its 10 years), founder member of the iCampus conference and past program chair of Active Media Technology, Pervasive Computing & Applications and Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing conferences He is a founder member of the Creative Science Foundation and co‐organiser of the associated conferences. He is an Associate Editor of Intelligent buildings International, co‐editor of the Transactions of Future Intelligent Educational Environments and Science and Fiction, plus a member of the editorial teams of Pervasive Computing & Communications, Ambient and Intelligence and Smart Environments journals and editor of countless book, He has published well over 300 papers on intelligent systems and received in excess of 2 million pounds of research funding in this area.
Anasol Peña-Rios is a PhD Candidate at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering and member of the Intelligent Environments Research Group (IEG) and the Immersive Education Lab (iEL) both based at the University of Essex, UK. Additionally she is member of IEEE, ACM, BCS and ALT and works as Information Officer at iED Europe, the European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative.
She completed an MSc in Advanced Web Engineering at the University of Essex, UK and a BEng in Information Technology at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico and has several years of work experience in different financial institutions in Mexico in the areas of web development and IT audit & security. Currently, her research focuses on the different interactions within a blended reality distributed environment, providing a platform to enable numerous real and virtual intelligent environments (across the world) to be connected together and changing perception of environments/spaces from one-dimensional (physical) to multi-dimensional (physical and virtual); extending human capabilities into a computer-generated spaces able to reflect information in real time. She has published 7 papers on related topics.
Organizers
Hsuan-Yi Wu, National Taiwan University
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex
Anasol Peña-Rios, University of Essex
Gary Graham, Leeds University
Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex
Anasol Peña-Rios, University of Essex
Gary Graham, Leeds University
Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester