Programme

Transition IOP-MMI – Chi Nederland

Format: Ceremonial speech | Language: English | Tags: research, design, business
Speakers: Rene Collier and Sander Leer | Agentschap NL,  HAN University,  Chi Nederland

Abstract
IOP-MMI is an innovation program funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs that supports research and development projects in user-system interaction. This year marks the culmination of the 10-year IOP-MMI program. Chi Nederland, the Dutch Association for HCI, is the biggest professional organization for user interface professionals, stakeholders and interested parties in this field. Together, they have organized The Web an Beyond 2010. This brief session highlights the organizations’ complementary relationship and their shared objective: the growth and success of the Dutch HCI field.

About our speakers

René Collier (1945) studied linguistics and literature at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in the sixties. In 1970 he started a 4-year research project on the acoustical and perceptual properties of Dutch intonation. The work was carried out at the Institute for Perception Research (IPO) in Eindhoven and led to a Ph.D. degree in 1972. In 1973-74 Collier was a research fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Yale University), New Haven, Conn. (USA), where he studied the physiological correlates of melodic changes in speech. Upon returning from the USA, he became Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and continued his collaboration with the IPO and Haskins Labs as a visiting scientist. In 1988 Collier joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven and was stationed at the IPO, where he became head of the Speech and Hearing Department. In 1989 he was appointed part-time Professor of Experimental Linguistics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). From 1997 to 2000 he led a research group on User-System Interaction Technology in Philips Research. From 2001 unitil his retirement in 2005 he was Innovation Manager for Philips’ international research programme on audiovisual content management. From 2001 till today Collier has been chairman of the Dutch national research programme on Man-Machine Interaction, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (€ 10 mio.)

Sander Leer is Lecturer at HAN University and chairman of Chi Nederland.