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	Geska Helena Andersson An artist and kaospilot, who works as a creative director and producer within the arts, film and media. She is heading the department Performing Pictures within the Interactive Insititute. Geska has an MA in Drama/Film/Theatre (Lund and Stockholm universities) and a BA in project management from the experimental KaosPilot University in Denmark. Geska has worked as a cultural editor, film and drama critic and stage- and costume designer for theatre for several years. In a commercial context she has worked with film and media at Scandvision Mediahouse and Moonwalk Stockholm. She has worked with the Exit99 Outdoor Performing Arts Festival, contemporary dance company ccap (cristina caprioli artificial experience), the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company and others.

	Robert Brecevic An artist, filmmaker and developer who works with enhanced video in order to examine the on-screen choreography of player characters. Robert work facilitates research within the field of public spaces and enhanced media. Prior work includes commissioned scriptwriting at SF (Svensk Filmindustri), production of independent short movies as well as commissioned feature film production and screenwriting. Robert has also worked as a game designer in Germany and Sweden; and as co-producer on major PC-game titles with TV4, published by Electronic Arts. Designer of experience centres with clients such as Coca Cola company. Developer of prize winning interactive cin-ema titles and independent productions of playable movies commissioned by the SACD (French Association of Authors and Composers) and the EU-funded Media II programme.

	Paolo Cignoni Senior Research Scientist with CNR-ISTI. He received a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1998. He has been awarded "Best Young Researcher" by the Eurographics association in 2004. His research interests cover Computer Graphics fields ranging from visualization and processing of huge 3D datasets, to 3D scanning in the cultural heritage field and to Scientific Visualization. He has published more than ninety papers in international refereed journals/conferences

	Michael Danks Multiplatform interactive television producer has worked in craft film and television production since 1977. In his time as editor, director, sound recordist and writer he was nominated for one American and two British academy awards. After being awarded a Master of Sciences at the University of Brighton in Digital Television Management and Production in 2003 he went on to research interactive television technology at the BBC. Whilst at the BBC he produced a unique interactive television museum exhibition production. The ‘Interactive Storytelling Exhibition Project’ which was runner up in the International Interactive Television AFDESI Technology and Innovation Award in 2006. In his continued professional career a user centred approach has provided the key for successful interactive storytelling. The use of interactive technologies for public engagement with Cultural Heritage has provided a focus for his academic efforts since 2006.

	Willem Derde Willem Derde studied Germanic languages at Ghent University (Belgium) and holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Comparative Study of Knowledge Systems (Intercultural Perspectives). He has lectured at Ghent University on Comparative Science of Cultures. He has been editor of the international multidisciplinary journal Cultural Dynamics, and has published in academic journals on the issues of culture and religion in India. At the Ename Center he is project coordinator..

	Halina Gottlieb Art historian and multimedia producer, has been a programme manager at Vision for Museums at the Interactive Institute (Stockholm) since 1999. As project manager she has taken part in the development of several prototypes pertaining to the interpretation of objects at art galleries. Furthermore she has assisted as concept developer for exhibitions at several museums in Sweden. She is also curator for the Interactive Salon, a show room for technologies that promote and preserve cultural heritage. In 2002, Halina founded the conference/award forum Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums and Heritage Sites (NODEM). At the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm she organised and was head lecturer of a course entitled Exhibitions & New Media. Halina is currently a board member of the Executive Committee at EPOCH (2005-2008) and is the Swedish representative for Epoch’s Network of Expertise Centres. In 2006 she became director of the Swedish Forum for Cultural Heritage at the Interactive Institute.

	David Nilsson Artist and entrepreneur, has a BA in fine art from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, specialising in photography, video and sounds. In 2005 he started to work at the Interactive institute as a project manager in projects related to ICT and cultural heritage. He is project manager for the Interactive Salon, a touring exhibition for technologies that promote and preserve cultural heritage. He has also worked as project manager on several research projects in the area of interactive cultural heritage experiences during the past years. In 2006 he started his own business, Evoking Spaces, specialized in development and implementation of interactive cultural heritage experiences.

	Daniel Pletinckx Trained as a civil engineer, with specialization in information technology. Daniel hasgained extensive experience in system design, quality assurance, digital image processing and synthesis, 3D and virtual reality through a career of 15 years in private industry. He is the author of several articles on computer graphics and cultural heritage presentation and has lectured extensively. Chief consultant to the Ename 974 project, founded the international Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation, together with Dirk Callebaut and Neil Silberman. Currently director of Visual Dimension bvba, a SME dealing with consulting on and designing of new systems for cultural heritage and tourism.

	Nick Ryan Nick is the originator of the MobiComp and FieldMap projects, a member of the EPOCH Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and the EPOCH WP3.3 technology area coordinator for Mobile, Wearable and Ambient Systems. He is a Computer Scientist working at the Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. With a background in archaeology, his research interests focus on the application of computing techniques to archaeological problems. Nick works on mobile and ubiquitous systems and, from time to time, on visualization and description of ancient environments. His mobile work is centred on location and context-awareness, particularly in field sciences.

	Mario Santana Quintero Completed studies of architecture in 1994 at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and in 2003 he obtained a PhD from the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is an assistant professor at the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, teaching for the master’s programme in conservation of architectural heritage and professor at the University of Applied Sciences St Lieven. He is currently the Vice President of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA) and executive officer of the Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society. Beside his academic work, he has been involved in several international projects with UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, World Monuments Fund, Getty Conservation Institute, United Nations Development programme (UNDP), ICCROM ATHAR’s programme, the University of Pennsylvania, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Petra National Trust, University of Applied Sciences of St Lieven, and the University of Aachen RWTH.

	Roberto Scopigno Dr. Roberto Scopigno is a Research Director with CNR-ISTI and co-leads the Visual Computing Lab. He is engaged in research projects concerned with 3D scanning, surface reconstruction, multiresolution, scientific visualization, and cultural heritage. He published more than hundred twenty papers in international refereed journals/conferences. Roberto has been responsible person for CNR-ISTI in several EU projects and co-chaired several international conferences. He is Vice-Chair of the Eurographics Association and Co-Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics Forum.

	Jan Stobbe Solicitor by education, Jan has been head of tourism and cultural heritage in the Regional Public Authority Gewest Kop van Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, from 1990 to mid 2007. From 2003 onwards he is director of the visitor centre Vikings on Wieringen and wrote various books and other publications on heritage, tourism and constitutional law. He has been involved in various European projects, e.g. North Sea Viking Legacy LANCEWAD and LANCEWADPLAN, and is a member of the international Wadden Sea Culture Commission (Wadcult). Jan also advised local authorities on the implementation of the Valletta Treaty and is currently involved in the organisation and marketing of the Francia Media Route. Jan’s company GRAND TOUR Tourism & Heritage, works on new integral products for both public and private costomers, including municipalities, museums and educational organisations.

	Luc van Gool Professor for computer vision at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the ETH in Zurich. At both places he leads a research group. He has authored more than 200 papers in the field of computer vision. His main interests include 3D reconstruction and modelling, object recognition, grouping and segmentation, tracking and optical flow, robot navigation and registration. In 1998, he received the David Marr Prize and an EITC Prize from the European Commission. He has also received two TechArt awards and a Henry Ford prize for conservation of the environment. Author of several patents. Member of the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, the International Journal on Computer Vision, the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and Machine Vision and Applications. Editor-in-chief of the Journal Foundations & Trends in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. Cofounder of the companies eSaturnus (endoscopic imaging), Eyetronics (delivering 3D models to the CH sector), GeoAutomation (mobile mapping), Kooaba (transmission of information from mobile phone images), and Procedural (3D modeling of buildings).

	Marten Vergauwen Maarten Vergauwen received his master's degree and his PHD in Electrical Engineering from the university of Leuven, Belgium, in the computer vision lab of prof. Luc Van Gool. His PHD research was on 3D reconstruction from uncalibrated imagery. Aside from several applications in space robotics and planetary exploration projects, this research also lead to the ARC 3D reconstruction webservice. He currently combines a post-doctoral research position and R&D work for the recent mobile mapping spin-off GeoAutomation.