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306 About the Authors Copyright 2006, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. Lesley Axelrod, MSc, studied human communication and worked as a registered speech and language therapist before turning to research. She worked on human communicationrelated projects as a senior research fellow at University College, London, and at Surrey University. She studied human-computer interaction with ergonomics at University College, London, and her research interests now center on how people communicate with technology, and the design of usable user-centered systems. She is currently a PhD student at Brunel University, School of Information Systems, Computing, and Mathematics, where she is a member of the VIVID Centre, working on a project to investigate how giving computers the ability to recognize human emotions might improve the quality of human-computer interaction. Linda D. Bussell is the director of research and development for Kinder Magic Software and a consultant to industry. She received her EdD degree in educational technology from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. Previously, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a Master s degree in educational technology from San Diego State University. She has been designing and developing educational multimedia materials and games for children and adults since 1992, covering content ranging from science and mathematics to language arts and workplace skills for home and school markets, corporate clients, and funding agencies. Her research interests lie in the design of effective interactive environments for teaching and learning. Andrea Cavallaro received his MSc (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Trieste, Italy, in 1996, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002, both in electrical engineering. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, perceptual semantics, and interactive media computing. Dr. Cavallaro was awarded a research fellowship with British Telecommunications (BT) and a Drapers Prize for the development of learning and teaching in 2004. He is a member of the program committee of various IEEE and ACM conferences, and he is the author of more than 40 papers, including four book chapters. Edward Y. Chang received his MS in computer science and PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Since 2003, he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent research activities are in the areas of machine learning, data mining, high-dimensional data indexing, and their applications to image databases and video surveillance. Recent research contributions of his group include methods for learning image/video query concepts via active learning with kernel methods, formulating distance functions via dynamic associations and kernel alignment, managing and fusing distributed video-sensor data, and categorizing and indexing high-dimensional image/ video information. Professor Chang has served on several ACM, IEEE, and SIAM conference program committees. He co-founded the annual ACM Video Sensor Network Workshop and has co-chaired it since 2003. He will be co-chairing major multimedia

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