He has been a trustee of the Design Museum; Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, Lecturer in Design at the London Business School and a member of the Steering Committee for the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. He is currently Consulting Associate Professor in the Joint Program in Design at Stanford University. His book Designing Interactions (www.designinginteractions.com) tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives; it is available from The MIT Press.

Bill has recently been awarded the 10th National Design Awards Lifetime Achievement Award - read more..

Mike Regan

Professor Mike Regan is an applied experimental psychologist, with Bachelor of Science (Hons) and PhD degrees from the Australian National University, in Canberra, where he was born.

He is currently a Research Director with the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) in Lyon, France, and an 
Adjunct Professor with Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.  
Between September 1997 and April 2007 he managed the Human Factors and Simulation Group at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), in Melbourne.

Mike's special research interests are in human interaction with advanced driver assistance systems, driver distraction, driving simulation, driver and passenger training and human error. He sits on the Editorial Boards of 4 peer-reviewed journals, including Human Factors, and is the author of around 200 publications. He sits on two Australian, and one international, human factors Standards Committees and is the senior editor and co-author of the first book on driver distraction, published in 2008 by Taylor and Francis.

Mike joined the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 1985, and has held several executive positions since then, including Chairman of the ACT Branch, in 1989, and General Secretary, between 1986-1988. He was a Member of the Society's Melbourne Bid Committee for the 2015 IEA World Congress.

Michiel Kompier

Michiel Kompier has a full chair in Work and Organisational Psychology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He heads the research programme 'work, stress and health'. He has published many articles, books and book chapters on topics such as work stress, job design, intervention research, working time arrangements, and working conditions policies.

Michiel Kompier is past chairman of the Scientific Committee 'Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors' of the International Commission on Occupational Health, associate-editor of the

'Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health', and member of the editorial boards of 'Work and Stress', 'Journal of Occupational Health Psychology', and the 'International Journal of Stress and Health'.

Penny Sanderson

Penny Sanderson is Director of the ARC Key Centre for Human Factors at The University of Queensland where she also leads the Cognitive Engineering Research Group. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 2004 was awarded the US-based Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's (HFES) Distinguished International Colleague Award. She has twice been awarded HFES's Jeromy Ely Award for the Best Paper in Human Factors: in 2005 (with M. Watson) and in 1990 (sole author).

Penny has made significant contributions to the application of the Cognitive Work Analysis framework not only to the design of displays and interfaces but also to other phases of the system development life cycle, such as acquisition, test and evaluation, and team design. She has also developed innovative auditory displays for anesthesia monitoring, which are the subject of ongoing development.

Further major contributions include the synthesis of the Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis framework for the analysis of observational data, and the development of a supporting software environment, MacSHAPA, which is still used by many researchers worldwide. An open source version, OpenSHAPA, is under development in collaboration with researchers at several universities.

Penny received her BA(Hons I) from University of Western Australia in 1979 with the Australian Psychological Society and H.L. Fowler Prizes, her MA from University of Toronto in 1981, and her PhD from University of Toronto in 1985.

While working in the USA at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1985 to 1996, Penny held grants from NSF, NASA, US Air Force Research Laboratory, and the US Department of Energy.

Since returning to Australia in 1997 she has held ARC and NHMRC funding in various forms, attracted funding from DSTO, Snowy Hydro Limited, Powerlink, Ergon Energy, and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, as well as being a CI on a Key Centre, a Centre of Excellence, two CRCs, and an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence.

In 2009 Penny will spend a month in the UK on a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (host W. Wong, Middlesex Univ).