Gareth Loudon
Dr. Gareth Loudon is a Principal Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Director of the Centre for Creativity Ltd. His research interests focus on creativity and the innovation process, combining ideas from anthropology and psychology, engineering and design. He is one of the co-founders of the User-Centred Design research group at the University. He has over 25 years experience in academic and industrial research. He has also worked for Apple Research and Ericsson Research in the design and development of new software and computer embedded products.
Gareth has several patents to his name and over 50 publications in total. He has won many awards including Best Software Product Award at COMDEX Asia, and for his concept design work from IDSA/BusinessWeek.
Gareth graduated with a 1st Class Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1988 and a Ph.D. from Leicester University in 1991. Gareth is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Frank Reichert
Prof. Frank Reichert has been working for over 25 years on technology and strategies for fixed and wireless communication systems both on national and international level.
Since July 2005 he is with UiA (University of Agder), undertaking research in wireless communication networks and services. Currently he is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Science. From 1995 he was with Ericsson Sweden, guiding investigations on, e.g., Future Service Layer Architectures, Wireless Internet technologies, and 3G applications and terminals. Assignments included creating and managing European Research projects (e.g. EUREKA Subproject PRO-COM, ACTS OnTheMove).
Frank established Ericsson Cyberlab Singapore in 1999, focusing on user centric, ethnographic application and terminal design, as well as rapid prototyping of new HW/SW products exhibited at fairs like CeBIT 2001 and COMDEX (e.g. Ericsson Cordless WebScreen, Delphipad, Nanorouter). He was board member for Singapore CWS (Centre for Wireless Communications). He has been working as an expert, evaluator and auditor for the European Commission in industrial R&D frameworks such as RACE, ACTS, 5FP, 6FP, and Celtic Calls 1-3.
Dr. Reichert holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Aachen University of Technology, Germany. He has published about 60 papers at international conferences on mobile technologies.
