Committees

General Chairs

Evangelos Karapanos

Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

George A. Papadopoulos

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs

Raian Ali

HBKU, Qatar

Khin Than Win 

University of Wollongong, Australia

Demo, Poster and Artefacts

Ruben Hgouveia 

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 

Hanne Spelt,

Philips, Netherlands

Workshops and Tutorial Chairs

Rhodora Abadia

University of South Australia, Australia

Kaoru Sumi 

Future University of Hakodate, Japan 

Wenzhen Xu

Hitotsubashi University, Japan  

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Sriram Iyengar

University of of Arizona, USA

Roberto Legaspi 

KDDI, Japan

Shahla Meedya

Australian Catholic University, Australia 

Proceedings Chairs

Kiemute Oyibo 

University of York, Canada

Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska 

University of Wollongong, Australia

Publicity Chair

Ifeoma Adaji

The University of British Columbia, Canada

Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee

  • Raian Ali – Chair
    Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
  • Luca Chittaro – General Member
    Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy
  • Roberto Legaspi – General Member
    Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
  • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member
    Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member
    Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada
  • Khin Than Win – Secretary
    Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Committee Members

Sameha Aalshakhsi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia
Ifeoma Adaji, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, University of Toronto, Canada
Dena Al-Thani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Aftab Alam, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Mona Alhasani, Dalhousie University, Canada
Raian Ali, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Alaa Ali S Almohanna, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nawaf Almutairi, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
Alaa Alslaity, Dalhousie University, Canada
Saleh Altuwayrib, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
Yutaka Arakawa, Kyushu University, Japan
Emily Arden-Close, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Areej Babiker, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Shlomo Berkovsky, Macquarie University, Australia
Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy
Luca Chittaro HCI Lab, University of Udine, Italy
Nelly Condori Fernandez, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Peter De Vries, University of Twente, Netherlands
Huseyin Dogan, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Dimitra Dritsa, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Alia El Bolock, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexander Felfernig, TU Graz, Austria
Mark Freeman, University of Sydney Australia
Nanami Furue, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Yann Glémarec, INRIA Rennes, Université de Rennes 1,  France
Vivienne Guan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Luke Haliburton, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Sanaul Haque, LUT University, Finland
Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Roberto Legaspi, KDDI Research Inc., Japan
Magnus Liebherr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Alexander Meschtscherjakov, University of Salzburg, Austria
Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Cees Midden, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
George Mikros, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Niko Männikkö, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Uwe Matzat, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Iolie Nicolaidou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Oulu University, Finland
Ethel Ong, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Rita Orji, Dalhousie University, Canada
Oladapo Oyebode, Dalhousie University, Canada
Kiemute Oyibo, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Constantina Panourgia, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Daniel Playne, Massey University, New Zealand
Deborah Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
John Rooksby, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Akihiro Sasaki, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
Stefan Schiffer, iTec | RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Marta Serafini, University of Udine, Italy
Zubair Shah, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Hanne Spelt, Philips Research, Netherlands
Kaoru Sumi, Future University Hakodate, Japan
Tugba Taskaya Temizel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Evangelia Vanezi, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia
Isaac Wiafe, University of Ghana, Ghana
Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia
Burkhard Wuensche, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Ala Yankouskaya, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Affan Yasin, Tsinghua University, China
Donghuo Zeng, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan