Roel Vertegaal
Queen's
University
Xuuk
Inc. / Human Media Lab, Queen's University
Kingston, Canada
roel@xuuk.com
Dr. Roel Vertegaal is one of Canada's foremost designers of highly
futuristic interactive technologies. Roel is Associate Professor in
Human-Computer Interaction at the prestigious Queen’s
University in
Kingston, Ontario, where he directs the Human Media Laboratory at the
School of Computing. He is also CEO of Xuuk, Inc., a startup that
develops eye sensors for interactive, real-world viewing statistics
gathering. Roel's first degree is in Electronic Music from Utrecht
Conservatory in the Netherlands. He also studied Visual Design,
Photography and Film in The Hague, Computing in Britain, and he holds a
PhD in Human Factors from Twente University in The
Netherlands. Roel
received the Premier of Ontario's Research Excellence Award for his
pioneering work on Attentive User Interfaces (AUI), which was featured
in media across the globe, from ABC Good Morning America to Scientific
American. Roel helped create the first North-American conference on Eye
Tracking (ACM ETRA), established ALT.CHI as an alternative papers venue
at the annual ACM SIGCHI conference and advised the National Academy of
Sciences on AUI.