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Presentation title:

"Pseudo-Haptic Feedback : Simulating Haptic Feedback without Haptic Devices"

Anatole Lécuyer is a senior researcher at INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (www.inria.fr), in Rennes, France. His main research interests include: virtual reality, 3D interaction, haptic feedback, pseudo-haptic feedback and brain-computer interfaces. In 1996, he graduated in France from Ecole Centrale Lille, and received his M.S. from University of Lille 1. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 from University of Paris XI, France. He spent one year as a research engineer in the French Commission for Atomic Energy, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. At INRIA, he is a member of the BUNRAKU research team since 2002. He is currently the coordinator of the Open-ViBE National project on Brain-Computer Interfaces (www.irisa.fr/bunraku/OpenViBE/), and leader of the Working Group on Haptic Interaction of INTUITION IST European Network of Excellence (www.intuition-eunetwork.net/).

Presentation title:

"IONS-VIP: a cognitive model for navigating the web via screen readers"

Ion Juvina, Ph.D., studied Psychology in Bucuresti, Romania, and Information Science in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He holds a position of Post-doctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology Department, Pittsburgh PA, USA. His research interests include cognitive modeling of human-Web interaction and cognitive control in multitasking. His work has been presented at prestigious international conferences such as EAWOP, STD, EARLI, CSCL, CogSci, HCI International, British HCI, SIGCHI.NL, UM, AH, and published in prominent journals such as: Universal Access in Information Society, Information Design Journal, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Discourse Processes. One of his papers received the James Chen Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on User Modeling, UM05, Edinburgh, Scotland.