Chairs and organization Committee

Chairs

Martyn Cooper: OUUK, UK; Personal Web Site; Email; Phone: +44 (0)1908 655729; Accessible Educational Media. The Institute of Educational Technology; The Open University; Milton Keynes , MK7 6AA (UK); Martyn Cooper established in 1991 an independent consultancy called TDP: Technology for Disabled People. In 1998 he took up the post of Research Lecturer at the Open University in February having since 1993 been the Director of Research: Technology and Disability in the Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading. Broadly his interests are in the applications on new and emerging technologies to enable and empower disabled people. Since joining the OU the emphasis of his work has been on access to education. In January 2002 he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow to head the Accessibility in Educational Media (AEM) group which he had established in July 2001.
Carlos Velasco: FIT, Germany; FIT Web Site; Phone: +49 2241 14-2609; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT); Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany; Carlos A. Velasco is currently a senior researcher in the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), and leads the BIKA Competence Center. Since 1990, Dr. Velasco has held several positions in Research Centers and private companies in the United States, The Netherlands and Spain. Before joining FIT, he was an independent consultant in the field of software development and Web technologies. He managed and manages several national and international R&D projects in the eInclusion and User Modelling field.
Jesús G. Boticario: UNED, Spain; Personal Web Site; Email; Phone: +34 91 398 71 97; aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Department.; Computer Science School; Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED); C/Juan del Rosal, 16. Madrid 28040. Spain; Jesús G. Boticario is the head of the aDeNu Research group and the scientific coordinator in several European and National funded projects in the area of eInclusion: FAA (Accessible and Open Education, PGIDIT05SIN011E), European Unified Approach for Accessible Lifelong Learning (EU4ALL, IST-034778), Accessible Learning Platform for Europe (ALPE, ETEN-029328). He is the coordinator of the ICT-Rectors Working Group on Accessibility Issues of the Higher Education Board of Rectors in Spain. He belongs to the Board of Directors of the dotLRN LMS where he is the head of the research projects focused on providing accessibility features to the platform. He was a co-organizer of the UM'03 Workshop on User and Group models for web-based adaptive collaborative environments. The research topics address User Modelling, Machine Learning techniques, Multi-Agent architectures and Educational and Technological Standards.
Olga C. Santos: UNED, Spain; Personal Web Site; Email; Phone: +34 91 398 93 88; aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Department.; Computer Science School; Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED); C/Juan del Rosal, 16. Madrid 28040. Spain; Olga C. Santos is the R&D Technical Manager of aDeNu Research group. Her research interests focus on implementing User Modelling and Machine Learning techniques in Multi-Agent architectures making a pervasive use of Educational and Technological Standards to provide personalized responses to users in open web-based services, such as e-tourism (SAMAP project) and e-learning (aLFanet and ADAPTAPlan projects) with a current special focus on providing educational accessible user-centred e-learning services for learners with special needs upon open architectures (FAA, EU4ALL and ALPE projects). Moreover, she leaders the accessibility roadmap at OpenACS/.LRN community and belongs to the Workgroup of eInclusion of the Spanish Technological Platform of Software and Services (INES).

Organization Committee

Jesús G. Boticario (UNED, Spain)
Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain)