Philippe Zimmermann

■ Philippe Zimmermann studied Environmental Sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked in the corporate IT-Departments of IBM and Siemens for several years before he co-founded a company for web application development. He worked from 2001-2005 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in the Man-Machine Interaction group where he also got his doctoral degree. Since summer 2005 he works at the University of Bern as a research assistant. His current research interests include the measurement of affect in the context of HCI, affective reactions to design and designed objects and motivation and affect in eLearning.

Beat Brogle

■Beat Brogle is a Swiss artist living in Berlin. His work investigates issues of morphological transformation and associations at the edge of perception. This investigation spans media as diverse as drawing, sculpture, films/video, and interactive installations and has been shown across Europe, and recently also in Australia and Asia.