Olivier St-Cyr is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, in Toronto Canada. He is the liaison for the iSchool User Experience Design (UXD) concentration. His research interests lie in the areas of HCI education and HCI curriculum development. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he spent eight years working in industry on HCI related projects.
Craig M. MacDonald is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at Pratt Institute where he developed and coordinates the Master of Science in Information Experience Design and User Experience advanced certificate programs. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies and Human-Computer Interaction from Drexel University and his research interests cover three broad themes: (1) understanding UX practices in different domains; (2) improving HCI/UX evaluation methodologies; and (3) strengthening HCI/UX education.
Elizabeth F. Churchill is a Director of User Experience at Google focused on designer and developer tools for the connected ecosystems of the Social Web and Internet of Things. Elizabeth has been a research leader at well-known corporate R&D organizations including Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Silicon Valley (FXPAL), the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), eBay Research Labs in San Jose, and Yahoo! in Santa Clara, California. A Distinguished Scientist and Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the CHI Academy, Elizabeth is the current Secretary/Treasurer of the ACM.