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Chris Jacobs is Creative Director at Telenav in Shanghai, China. His focus is User Experience, Interaction and UI Design. Having worked throughout Asia and the U.S., he has cultivated a strong design foundation with broad demonstrated expertise in visual design and typography. He is responsible for cultivating a team of talented designers, innovators and userRead more

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Pr. Andras Kemeny is Expert Leader, Immersive Simulation and VR for Renault. He has initiated and directed the development of a driving simulation software package, SCANeR©, a worldwide leader and a major development and assessment driver in the loop (DIL) simulation tool for ADAS, Human Machine Interface (HMI), autonomous and connected vehicles, deployed at automotiveRead more

Product and software design for Volvo Cars with focus on interior and HMI. Dashboard, infotainment, rear seat entertainment and other human-machine interface features. Working closely with Electrical Engineering and other related areas in R&D. Product releases: XC90 (2015). Subsequent S90 (2015), V90 (2016), V90 CC (2017), XC40 (2017)Read more

Dr.-Ing. Marcus Heinath is head of department at IAV and responsible for the divisions: User Experience & HMI. His main tasks are in the area of HMI pre-development & prototyping as well as HMI series specification for infotainment systems, instrument cluster, head-up displays and apps. Biography: 1977: Year of birth in Brandenburg an der Havel,Read more

Female thought leader and winner of France’s leading female innovation UX award in 2016 <“Femme de l’innovation” at  the “Trophées des femmes de l’industrie” from usine nouvelle>, Saran Diakité Kaba is an industrial designer specializing in interaction/interface design, global User eXperience & agile development methods. Since graduating from ENSCI Les Ateliers (the National French schoolRead more

Martin Riedl is the product manager of Elektrobit’s multimodal HMI product, EB GUIDE. He joined Elektrobit in 1998 as a software developer in the technology consulting division where he was responsible for several projects within the infotainment HMI field. He then took over the project management of EB GUIDE, then assumed the role of technicalRead more

Prof. Dr. Andreas Riener is a professor for “Human-machine interaction and virtual reality” at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. He further has a co-appoint at CARISSMA (Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area) as research professor for “Human Factors and Driving Ergonomics”.  He received his PhD in computer science in 2009 (University of Linz,Read more

Anna Katharina Frison is a UX researcher at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) and doctoral candidate at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz in Austria since 2016. She received her Master degree at the chair for Human-Machine-Interaction at LMU Munich in 2015. After working at the design agency designaffairs GmbH as Usability Engineer in several IoT projects,Read more

Magnus has been working as lead and Chief UX Designer on Product Design department at Volvo Construction Equipment for more than five years. Having led the UX-development of Volvo CE´s new service platform ”Volvo Co-Pilot” – the winner of the Car HMI Award 2016 he also came up with the UX-concept for Volvo GaiaX theRead more