CONFERENCIAS MAGISTRALES

Toni Granollers
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Dr. Toni Granollers

University of Lleida, Spain (antoni.granollers@udl.cat).

Bachelor in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1988) and Ph.D. in Computer Science, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Lleida (2004). He is currently professor of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering Department at University of Lleida and Director of the Research Group on Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration (GRIHO) in the UdL. Member of the Human-Computer Interaction Association (AIPO) -the most important Spanish and Latin American HCI entity-, being member of the executive board for several years, and, also member, of the Special Interest Group on HCI (SIGCHI) of ACM and of the HCI-collab network. He is coauthor of the book “Diseño de sistemas interactivos centrados en el usuario” published by UOC, 2004.

Cristian Rusu
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Dr. Cristian Rusu

School of Computer Engineering, Chile (cristian.rusu@pucv.cl).

Cristian Rusu is a full professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), in Chile. He is PhD in Applied Informatics from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He worked in several software companies and research institutes in Romania and Chile. Since 1999 he is fully dedicated to academia. He serves in editorial boards and conference program committees and disseminates Usability’s importance, in Chile and Latin America. His research interests focus on HCI, Usability, User eXperience, and Customer eXperience. Former Chair of the Chilean ACM-SIGCHI Chapter, he is also the head of the ”UseCV” Research Group in HCI at PUCV.