Sergio Goldenberg
Sergio Goldenberg is currently finishing this Master of Science in Digital Media at Georgia Tech. He is also a professor at the Journalism School of the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. Sergio holds a Journalism degree from the same school where he also taught New Media and Interactive Narrative graduate and undergraduate courses. He has worked on internet usage and convergence research projects. Parallel to his academic work, he worked for five years at the Internet Department of Channel 13, one of the most important national television networks in Chile as Website Development leader. His interests are in online and interactive narratives, and communications technology developments.He is currently the research leader of the eTV Group.

sergio.goldenberg at gatech.edu
www.goldenberg.cl

Paul Amsbary
Paul Amsbary is a digital media practitioner who has worked in arts and education environments most recently as an educational technologist at Middlebury College. Paul holds a MFA from California Institute of the Arts in writing and a BFA from Miami University. He is currently in the process of completing her Masters degree in Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech.

Brien Applegate
Brien Applegate is a senior undergraduate student in the Computational Media program at Georgia Tech. Human-Computer Interaction is his primary academic focus, and in the fall of 2007 he plans to enroll in a Masters program within this field of study. He also has experience doing photography, graphic design, and web development for bands and musicians.

Annie Lausier
Annie Lausier holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Digital Art from Wake Forest University.  Along with interactive television, Annie's interests lie in interaction design, interactive narrative, emerging media, and social networks.  She is currently a Masters student in Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program.

Michael Pate
Michael Pate is a graduate of Mississippi State University where he earned a B.S. in Psychology with an emphasis in Graphic Design. While there, he worked within the cognitive psychology lab under the direction of Dr. Gary Bradshaw, conducting research into basic cognitive processes. He also conducted independent research into the effectiveness of online advertisements and web-based marketing under the direction of Dr. Tracy Henley. After graduating, he worked for some time in the Team Performance Lab at the University of Central Florida under Dr. Stephen Fiore on several projects, including studying the interaction of humans with autonomous robotic agents within a team setting and the design and evaluation of computer-based training programs for airport baggage screeners. Michael is now a first-year graduate student in the Masters program in Human-Computer Interaction at the GA Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the Enhanced Television prototyping group directed by Dr. Janet Murray, and the Information Interfaces group directed by Dr. John Stasko. He has also been in charge of the effort to redesign the website for the GA Tech School of Psychology. Michael's primary research interests lie in the realm of interactive television and other forms of interactive digital media, television-internet convergence, interactive marketing, online marketing, website architecture and design, and interface design/usability.