Very excited to hear Hiroshi Ishiguro. He is professor and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory in Osaka, Japan. In robot development, Professor Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being. He is famous for creating various replicas of persons, such as himself.
On the side of UX-methods it is interesting to hear Gilbert Cockton speak for our community. At the CHI Nederland Conference 2009: Change! Gilbert Cockton will talk about ‘Quadricentric Design’, arguing that a design process should not proactively privilege one perspective, but shift attention as needed between designed artifacts, design purpose, design beneficiaries and design evaluation.
More keynote speakers @ chi-conferentie.nl
Modestly bringing to your attention that I will be presenting too, track Reflection/Methods; reflecting on the use of creative methods in HCI.