Speakers
kEVIN LARSON, PH.D.
Invited Speaker
Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Kevin Larson is a Principal Researcher on Microsoft’s Advanced Reading Technologies team. His research focuses on reading, how to make it easier and more comfortable to read from computer screens, and tools to make it easier for everyone to learn to read, including people with dyslexia. Kevin received a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
sofie beier, ph.d.
Invited Speaker
Co-Founder, Typ
Head, Centre for Visibility Design
Graphic designer and professor Sofie Beier is employed at the Royal Danish Academy, where she is head of Centre for Visibility Design. She is the author of the ‘Type Tricks’ book series and of ‘Reading Letters: designing for legibility’. She has further published numerous academic papers on typeface legibility. Her research is focused on improving the reading experience by achieving a better understanding of how different typefaces and letter shapes can influence the way we read.
TILMAN DINGLER, PH.D.
Invited Speaker
Computer Scientist and Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Tilman Dingler is a Computer Scientist and Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on building cognition-aware technologies that support people’s information processing capabilities. He is particularly interested in the design of reading interfaces that foster deeper engagement and build critical thinking skills.
SIAN GOODING, mpHIL
Invited Speaker
Research Scientist, Google
Sian Gooding is a Research Scientist at Google specialising in Readability and Text Simplification. Her work focuses on how to revolutionise the on-device reading experience using natural language processing. She studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory within the Natural Language and Information Processing group and is a visiting researcher at the Language, Computation and Cognition Lab.
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