Management

SESUN is organised by a Steering Group comprising the main partners of the project. The national body involved is the British Computer Society / British HCI Group. The other partners are Thames Valley University (UK), Dalian Maritime University (China), the University of Limerick (Ireland), Uppsala University (Sweden), University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), and CURE (Austria).

The project is managed by Prof. Andy Smith, Head of IIT at Thames Valley University. Previously he also managed the Asia IT&C co-financed Indo European Systems Usability Partnership. Andy has expertise across the board in systems usability. He has been Director of a London based usability consultancy and was involved in a range of projects with clinets such as Accenture, Microsoft, AOL, LandRover and the DTI. Andy is an expert in culture and internationalisation having recently co-edited a special issue of the international journal Interacting with Computers titled: Global human computer systems: cultural determinants of usability.

Click on the right to find out more about the partners who mange the project and all the other people involved in co-ordinating all the project activities.