Marleen Wynants (1958) is an independent journalist, publicist and consultant. She worked as music producer and content researcher for the official Belgian Radio and Television in its pre-commercial stage. She was the editor of the post-punt magazine Fabiola, leaving the scene in 1988, the year that Hillel Slovak, Chet Baker, Divine, Sylvester and Roy Orbison died. She published articles for the major media groups in Belgium, wrote books for children, organised educational workshops and published articles and columns on ICT, on interdisciplinary science projects and on the people behind them. At present she is the director of CROSSTALKS, the interdisciplinary university and industry network of VUB.
Arjen Sondag is an Interaction Designer, researcher and artist concentrating on physical interaction design, smart systems and context awareness. His main interests is how we can interact with all the smart products that are going to be developed in the near future and that are too small for normal interaction paradigms. Normally he will do research, conceptualize the ideas and then rapid prototype the solution to prove the concept.
Cristiano Storni is graduated in HCI and holds a PhD in Information Systems and Organization at the Faculty of Sociology (Dept. of Social Research) in the University of Trento. After having collected experiences in consultancy and action-research, Cristiano is now Post-doc research fellow at the Interaction Design Centre at the department of Computer Science and Information Systems (University of Limerick). He is actually leading the sociological strand of FutureComm, an Irish national program for research in Third-Level institutions that aims to envision the future of ICT and services in various domains. His research is concerned with the social shaping of technology, the notion of appropriation and the future of ICT in the domain of Health Care, web 2.0, open software and hardware. He is actually focusing on the future of self-care practices and the changing role of designers in ICT.



