Arianna Bassoli is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the Department of Media and Communications. Her main research interest lies in the design of mobile proximity-based applications, technologies that support communication and data sharing among co-located people.

Johanna Brewer is a PhD student in the Informatics department at the University of California, Irvine working with Paul Dourish. She is interested urban computing, particularly in the design of technologies which can forge new types of connections between people and how it can transform or reinforce old ones.

Karen Martin is an EngD candidate in an interdisciplinary programme run by the Bartlett School of Architecture and the department of Computer Science at University College London. Her research focuses on the use of technology in public spaces to develop a sense of place and how this might affect social interaction and the sense of community.