Prof. Dr. Manfred Tscheligi was born in 1962 in Villach, Carinthia (Austria). He is one of the key people involved in developing the field, a distinguished speaker at conferences, workshops, tutorials, and seminars, and the author of many publications. He has been initiating and managing a broad variety of research and industrial projects and initiatives within Austria on the international level. He is a member of various national and international expert, advisory, and conference committees (e.g., CHI conference series, mobile HCI conference series, human–robot interaction conference series), and his work is based mainly on the interdisciplinary synergy of different fields to enrich the interaction between humans and systems. Dr. Tscheligi holds a Master’s Degree in Business Informatics and a PhD in Social and Economic Science with a specialization in Applied Computer Science. Since coming to Salzburg, he has held several positions in relation to the development of the research group on human–computer interaction (e.g. (Co)-Director of the former ICT&S Center, Co-Head of the Department of Computer Sciences). In an established cooperation, he is also heading the Center for Technology Experience at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna.
