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We are proud to acknowledge that ECCE2007 is the 25th Anniversary conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). To honour this, we are pleased that Thomas Green, Norbert Streitz, Jean-Michel Hoc and Gerrit van der Veer, who are founding fathers of the conference series, will join us in a special, celebratory session. This special session will be an opportunity to hear their reflections of the last 25 years of cognitive ergonomics to see what the EACE has achieved and what the future 25 years will mean for cognitive ergonomics.

Thomas Green - (UK)

Thomas Green has been retired for ten years, prior to which he worked at what was then the MRC Applied Psychology Unit. When asked what he did research on, he usually replied ‘Why things are hard to do’; more exactly, he has published papers on cognitive difficulties in programming and software design, human-computer interaction, the design of notations, and the like. His best-known research seems to be the ‘cognitive dimensions of notations’ framework, a theory-grounded evaluation tool applicable (or so he claims) to any information artifact whatsoever; this was the subject of a recent special issue of the Journal of Visual and Human-Centered Computing. He was the first British scholar to be elected to the ‘CHI Academy’ of the ACM, and was a founder member of the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics. He is currently Visiting Professor at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Norbert Streitz - Fraunhofer IPSI Darmstadt (Germany)

Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. Norbert Streitz (Ph. D. in physics and Ph.D. in psychology) is a Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor. He initiated and managed the research division "AMBIENTE – Smart Environments of the Future" at Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, where he also teaches at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University. He was also an assistant professor at the Technical University (RWTH) Aachen, a post-doc at University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Xerox PARC and at the Intelligent Systems Lab of ETL-MITI, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. He was the Chair of the Steering Group of the EU-funded initiative "The Disappearing Computer" and is now the co-chair of the ERCIM Working Group “Smart Environments and Systems for Ambient Intelligence (SESAMI)”. His research interests include Ambient/Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing, Interaction and Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext/ Hypermedia, CSCW, Cognitive Science. He has published/edited 16 books and (co)authored more than 100 technical papers. He serves regularly on the relevant program committees and editorial boards (e.g., currently ACM TOCHI). He is often invited to present keynote speeches and tutorials to scientific as well as commercial events in Europe, USA, South America, Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan.

Jean-Michel Hoc - Research Director at CNRS, IRCCyN Nantes (France)

Jean-Michel Hoc was the first EACE Chairman. He is Research Director at CNRSin Cognitive Ergonomics, Head of the PyCoTec research team (Psychology, Cognition, Technology) within IRCCyN , Associate Editor of the multidisciplinary and international journal Le Travail Humain. He is member of Cognition, Work & Technology, Cognitive Science Quarterly, Information-Interaction-Intelligence, and Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Editorial Boards. He was co-head of the ARCOS Research action for safe car-driving by the means of in-car driver assistance at PREDIT (Ministries of Transportation, Industry, and Research). He is the head of a CNRS French national research network in ergonomic psychology. His research team is studying cognitive activities brought into play within dynamic environment supervision and control (car-driving, flexible manufacturing systems, maritime navigation). His main research concerns are cognitive control and human-machine cooperation.

Gerrit van der Veer - Open Universiteit (The Netherlands)

Gerrit C. van der Veer started his academic life in Cognitive Psychology, specializing in mental models of complex systems and in individual differences in cognitive styles. His work on programming languages made him aware of Thomas Green’s experiments on the “Hungry Hare”. Thomas, Gerrit, and Elly Lammers, in 1982, initiated the development of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) and the conference series ECCE.  In 1990 Gerrit moved to the University of Twente where he eventually became head of the Department of Cognitive Ergonomics. He developed an approach towards formal task analysis (GTA: Groupware Task Analysis) and a design approach (DUTCH: Design for Users and Tasks from Concepts to Handles).  In 1998 he was appointed by the Computer Science Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, to develop a Bachelor and Masters curriculum on “Multimedia and Culture”. He is currently professor of “Human-Computer Interaction” at the Dutch Open University. Recent research topics include design for experience and the analysis of collective and distributed activities.