Workshop panellist: Stephen Furner, Senior Technology Manager, BT Research Laboratories

Stephen leads research into human aspects of future technology in the Broadband Applications Research Centre. He is a technical specialist leading and carrying out research that challenges emerging technology to meet real human needs.

Typical of Stephen's research are projects such as MoBIC - orientation and navigation for people with visual disabilities; Teach Speech - the delivery of speech and language therapy support into the classroom by videotelephony; or Teletouch - reaching into computationally generated worlds to touch and feel the objects they contain.

Stephen regularly publishes academic papers and has been on national radio and TV talking about the research he carries out for BT. Stephen is currently the Chairman of the ETSI Technical Committee for Human Factors and a member of the ICT Standards Board DATSCG, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute: and European Commission's ENABLED project