Pier Luigi Emiliani  Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC), Via Panciatichi 64, 50127 Firenze, Italy (p.l.emiliani@ifac.cnr.it). Dr. Emiliani is the director of the Institute of Applied Physics and President of the CNR Research Area in Firenze, Italy. Since 1968, he has been working on digital-signal-processing theory and its applications in telecommunications and biomedical engineering. Since 1982, he has also been involved in the applications of digital signal processing and information technology for the socio-economic integration of people with disabilities. In this activity sector, he has been responsible for several European research projects. He is presently a member of the Advisory Council of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and of the Board of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE).

Constantine Stephanidis  Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, GR-70013, Greece (cs@ics.forth.gr). Professor Stephanidis is the director of ICS-FORTH and leads the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and the Centre for Universal Access and Assistive Technologies. He is also a member of the faculty at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Crete. Since the late 1980s, he has been actively involved in activities contributing to the European Commission R&D Policy on e-Inclusion. Over the past two decades, he has been engaged as a prime investigator in pioneering research work in the fields of human-computer interaction and universal access, publishing more than 300 technical papers. He is the editor of User Interfaces for All—Concepts, Methods and Tools, published by Lawrence Erdman Associates, and the editor-in-chief of the Springer international journal Universal Access in the Information Society. He is the Founding Chair of the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) working group “User Interfaces for All” and the General Chair of its workshop series. Since 2001, he has been the Founding Chair of the international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction.