Organizers

N. Sadat Shami is a PhD candidate in the Information Science Program at Cornell University. In his dissertation research, he is looking at how different mechanisms of inducing mild positive affect in distributed team members may improve information sharing and decision making. He was one of the organizers of the successful SIG at CHI ‘07 on emotion research in HCI.

Jeff Hancock is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Communication and the Faculty of Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interpersonal dynamics of computer-mediated interactions, and his research is supported by the National Science Foundation. He has been a member of the CHI community since 1999 and authored CHI papers concerned with emotion. This is his first as an organizer.

Christian Peter is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Rostock, Germany. He is interested in HCI in general and Affective Computing in particular. His current focus is on affective technologies like affect sensing and detection, and the design of affective systems. He has organized two workshops on emotion in HCI and a symposium on affective smart environments.

Michael Muller works in the IBM Research Collaborative User Experience group in Cambridge, MA, USA. His research has emphasized users as coanalysts and co-designers, and more recently the usage of social software systems in enterprises.

Yanghee Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University. Her research interests are in pedagogical agents as learning companions, social cognition and tutoring systems. She is currently directing a multidisciplinary research team in CREATE (Center for Research on Engaging Advanced Technology for Education).

Regan Mandryk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of affect sensing technologies and affective interaction techniques. She has co-organized 7 conference workshops at CSCW, Pervasive and Ubicomp, but this will be her first workshop at CHI.