Biographies

Dr Anna Lundh is a Library and Information Science researcher with a particular interest in reading practices and discourses about reading.

She is Docent (Associate Professor) at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Dr Lundh’s research interests include reading practices that involve audio reading technologies such as screenreaders, talking books, and audio books.

Azeema Yaseen is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her bachelors (2015) and masters (2017) degrees are in the field of Computer Science from Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Pakistan. She has been a lecturer at the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in the University of Gujrat (UoG) and the University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore from 2016 to 2019 respectively.

From her interest in the Internet of Things and big data during her masters to the current research work she is concerned with the applications of the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT) and Human Computer Interaction.

In her PhD research she is striving to create better interface and interaction frameworks in musical contexts where amateurs are the primary users. This research is also applicable to systems that employ multimodal interactions in the domain of digital wellbeing.

Barbara McGillivray is lecturer in digital humanities and cultural computation at King’s College London and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.

Her research interests focus on computational linguistics for historical texts and cultural heritage collections, digital humanities, and open data publishing in the humanities.

Since 2019 she has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data.

Julius Nganji, PhD is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and a member of the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation (ICDR) at the University of Toronto.

His PhD in Computer Science focused on using web ontologies to personalize e-learning for students with disabilities, including those with multiple disabilities. He leads and contributes to various research proposals and grant writing in disability inclusive development.

His research interests are in e-learning personalization for students with disabilities, digital accessibility, usability, human-computer interaction and special educational technology.

Myrthe Plaisier is an assistant professor in the Human Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands).

She has many years of experience studying haptic and multimodal perception. Her research aim is studying human perception in order to utilise this knowledge to design technology that is user friendly and inclusive.

She is a former member of the SUITCEYES project.

Raymond Holt is a Lecturer in Product Design at the University of Leeds' School of Mechanical Engineering.

His research focuses on the study of haptics and prehension and the cocreation of assistive and rehabilitation technologies with its users.

He is a former member of the SUITCEYES project, and currently part of the Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures project.

Sophie Blain has been a children's publisher specializing in accessibility for people with disabilities for over 20 years (all disabilities, all media) and director of the publishing house "Les Doigts Qui Rêvent" for 4 years.

In collaboration with the public and research teams, she develops innovative accessible book concepts.

She is also a trainer on accessibility to books and writing for book professionals.