The First International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction ACHI 2008 February 10-15, 2008 - Sainte Luce, Martinique

Committees

ACHI 2008 General Chair

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

ACHI 2008 Publicity Chairs

Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore

ACHI 2008 Technical Program Committee

TPC Co-Chairs:
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada - Reno, USA
Alf Inge Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Special tracks Co-Chairs:

Irinel C. Dragan, University of Texas - Arlington, USA [Games]
Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore [Human-robots systems]
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan [Learning systems]
Alfredo Milani, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Italy [Knowledge systems]
Brian C. Lovell, The University of Queensland, Australia [Visison-Patterns] 
Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA  [Networking]
Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, USA [Robotics]
Andreas C. Nearchou, University of Patras, Greece [Robotics]
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland {Social aspects, persuasive technologies]
Janan Zaytoon, University of Reims, France [Biomedical systems]

Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, USA
Frank Allgower, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Bala Amavasai, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Elisabeth Andre, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Arato, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Jonas August, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University, USA
Louise Barkhuus, University of California - San Diego, USA
Scott Bassett, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Noureddine Belkhatir, Pierre Mendes France University of Grenoble (Grenoble II), Franc
Karsten Berns, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mark Billinghurst, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rahul Biswas, Stanford University, USA
Michaela Black, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Hannes Bleuler, RPFL, Switzerland
Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, USA
Pierre Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
Patrick Boucher, Supelec, France
Tim Bretl, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA
David W Bustard, University of Ulster, UK
Darwin Caldwell, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, UNINOVA, Portugal
Marco Campi, University of Brescia, Italy
Alessandro Casavola, Universita'  della Calabria, Italy
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK
Patrick Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
I-Ming Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yuehui Chen, University of Jinan, China
Albert Cheng, University of Houston--University Park, USA
Howard Jay Chizeck, University of Washington, USA
Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Life Sciences, Poland
Tibor Chovan, University of Pannonia, Hungary
Jung Hong Chuang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Cesar Alberto Collazos Ordonez, University of Cauca, Columbia
Brian J. d'Auriol, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Anthony Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada
Agostinho Cláudio da Rosa, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada - Reno, USA
Kerstin Dautenhahn, The University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dragos Datcu, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Serge Debernard, University of Valenciennes, France
Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, Ireland
John M. Dolan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Irnel C Dragan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Rolf Drechsler, Universität Bremen, Germany
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
Simon G.Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
Ben Falchuk, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
Daniel Farkas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Florin Filip, Academia Romana, Romania
Bernard Fong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Phil Fong, Stanford University, USA
Manel Frigola, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Dan Fu, Stottler Henke, USA
Somchart Fugkeaw, Thai Digital ID Co., Ltd., Thailand
Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Steve Goschnick, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bernard Grabot, L'Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France
Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Vic Grout, North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, UK
Maki Habib, Saga University, Japan
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Riad Hammoud, Delphi E&S, USA
Uwe D. Hanebeck, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Fred Harris, University of Nevada - Reno, USA
Kris Hauser, Stanford University, USA
Victor Manuel Hinostroza Zubia, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Neville Hogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA  
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Raymond Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
Alejandro Jofre, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Peter Kahn, University of Washington, USA
Tatiana Kalganova, Brunel University, UK
Ahmed Kamel, Concordia College, USA
Takayuki Kanda, ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs, Japan
M L Kansal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Mehmed Kantardzic, J. B. Speed School of Engineering, USA
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dimitrios A. Karras, Chalkis Institute of Technology, Greece
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Kalevi Kilkki, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Jozef Korbicz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
George L. Kovacs, Mta Sztaki - Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary
Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla, HP Labs, India
Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa, USA
Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, USA
Gheorghe Lazea, Universitatea Tehnica Cluj - Napoca, Romania
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Gordon K. Lee, San Diego State University, USA
Soo-Young Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Mike Lewis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Yangmin Li, University of Macau, Macau SAR
Guanfeng Liu, Stanford University, USA
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK
Brian C. Lovell, The University of Queensland, Australia
Shijian Lu, Macquarie University, Australia
Krishna Madhavan, Clemson University, USA
N Premchand Mahalik, California State University, USA
Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
K L Mak, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Rainer Malaka, Universität Bremen, Germany
Danilo P. Mandic, Imperial College London, UK
Jacek Mandziuk, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
Lorraine McGinty, UCD, Ireland
Gerard McKee, University of Reading, UK
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Alfredo Milani, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Les Miller, Iowa State University, USA
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
Eugenio Aguirre Molina, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Boris S. Mordukhovich, Wayne State University, USA
Fazel Naghdy, University of Wollongong, Australia
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Deok Hee Nam, Wilberforce University, USA
Andreas C. Nearchou, University of Patras, Greece
Andrei Neculai, ICI, Romania
Mircea Nicolescu, University of Nevada - Reno, USA
Juan Nolazco, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Gustavo Olague, Centro de Investigacion y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico 
Andrzej W. Ordys, Kingston University in London, UK
Jeffrey(Junfeng) Pan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Evangelos Papadopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Igor Paromtchik, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, USA
Pubudu Pathirana, Deakin University, Australia
Alexandru Patriciu, McMaster University, Canada
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite Paris 8, France
Andrew Perkis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Emil M. Petriu University of Ottawa, Canada
Radu-Emil Precup, Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania
Marcel Profirescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Abdul Wahab Bin Abdul Rahman, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Heri Ramampiaro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Birger Rapp, Uppsala University, Sweden
Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Alfredo Espinosa Reza, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Mexico
Robert C Richardson, The University of Manchester, UK
Doug Riecken, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Andri Riid, Automaatikainstituut, Estonia
Antonio M Rinaldi, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Markus Rittenbruch, NICTA, Australia
Cameron N. Riviere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jean-Marc Robert, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies, USA
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Christophe Rosenberger, ENSI Bourges, France
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 
Larry Rudolph, MIT, USA
M.Necip Sahinkaya, University of Bath, UK 
Abd Elbadeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Rafael Muñoz Salinas, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Antony Satyadas, IBM, USA
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame, USA
Ahmed Seffah, Concordia University, Canada
Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
Valriy Shaptsev, The Tyumen State University, Russia 
Amanda Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK
Yang Shi, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Lei Shu, DERI / National University of Ireland, Ireland
Medha Shukla Sarkar, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Young-Woo Seo, Carnegie Melon University, USA
Mihail L. Sichitiu, North Carolina State University, USA
Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara, Italy
Carla Simone, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Zoran Skocir, University of Zagreb, Croatia
George Skoptsov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mark W. Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Andrei Stefan, Lamar University, USA
Adrian Stoica, NASA, USA
Markus Stolze, IBM, USA
Catherine V. Stringfellow, Midwestern State University, USA
Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Dag Svanaes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Poland
Ashit Talukder, NASA, USA
Daniel Thalmann, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jim Tørresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Nikos Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Marian Vajtersic, Salzburg University, Austria
Jo Van Vaerenbergh, Laboratorium for Neuro- en Psychophysiology, Belgium
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Victor Villagra, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA
Alf Inge Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Margaret Wiecek, Clemson University, USA
Dirk Wollherr, Technischen Universität München, Germany
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA
Jie Yin, CSIRO, Australia
Xinghuo Yu, RMIT University, Australia
Janan Zaytoon, Université de Reims, France
Marco Zenati, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA