MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA & ETSI: 21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT2008) - Monday 17 to Thursday 20 March 2008

HFT2008 is a 4-day event comprising of workshops, keynote speeches by leading researchers and industrial experts, focused symposiums, technical oral presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions and industrial panels.

21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT2008)
17th - 20th March 2008
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel

The event will cover end-user centric perspectives of topics related to the research, development, deployment, use, maintenance and impacts of fixed and mobile Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), services and applications. The Symposium provides an interactive forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, innovations, standards and development opportunities in this arena. It strives for the best possible user experience of and accessibility to ICT.

Conference Theme:
User Experience of ICTs

Keynote Speakers:
- Dr Kristin Braa, Managing Director & VP of Telenor Research and Innovation Centre Asia Pacific (TRICAP)
- Takahiro Iijima, Team Leader of Human Interaction Design, Director & Manager, Panasonic Design Company (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)
- Jim Nieters, Director of User Experience, Yahoo! Inc.

Local Organising Committee:
Conference Chair - Chee Weng Khong
Conference Secretary - Chui Yin Wong
Conference Advisor - Harold Thwaites
Committee Members - Boon Cheong Quek, Muhammad Asyraf, Anthony Wong, Md. Fariz Faizal, June Jong and Kimberly Chu

Permanent Steering Committee:
Bruno von Niman, vonniman consulting, Sweden
Martin Böcker, Siemens AG, Germany
Anne Clarke, European Management Services, UK
Pedro Concejero, Telefónica Investigación y, Spain
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc., USA
Edmond W. Israelski, Abbott Laboratories, USA
Lothar Mühlbach, Fraunhofer Institute für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Michel Näel, Ergonomics & Design, France
Leon van Noorden, University of Ghent, Belgium
Knut Nordby, Telenor, Norway
John Seton, BT Group Technology, UK
Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
Chee Weng Khong, Multimedia University, Malaysia

For further information and registration details, please visit  www.hft2008.org.