Andrew Vande Moere is a Lecturer in Design Computing at the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. His research interests include creative forms of data representations, including wearable or persuasive visualization. His teaching includes interaction design, physical/wearable computing and 3D real-time multimedia. Andrew is also the sole author of the "information aesthetics" weblog.
Kirsty Beilharz is a Senior Lecturer in Digital media at the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. Her research includes gestural interaction with sonification, wearable sonification and context-aware informative display. Her teaching includes Sound Design and Sonification and an Interactive Sound Design Studio.
Bert Bongers has a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction Design form Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on making technology more accessible through physical forms of interaction, including haptic feedback. He has worked as an instrument builder at Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, as well as freelance for many composers, musicians, architects, and artists such as Laetita Sonami,Michel Waisvisz and Kas Oosterhuis. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Building at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Stephen Barrass is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Communication and Co-Director of the Sonic Communications Research Group at the University of Canberra . He obtained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of NSW in 1986, and a Ph.D. on Auditory Information Design from the Australian National University in 1997. He took up a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Kommunication in Germany through 1998-1999. Upon return to Australia he lead research on Advanced Audio Interfaces at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra from 2000-2004.