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Lewis Chuang is Professor of Humans and Technology at the Institute for Media Research at Chemnitz University of Technology. Previously, he was an academic councilor at the Institute of Computer Science at LMU and a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Work Research at TU Dortmund University. He obtained his BSc. (York, UK) and MPhil. (Manchester, UK) in Psychology before completing his PhD in Neuroscience at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. His research includes qualitative task analysis, psychophysical and psychophysiological evaluations, and computational modeling to understand human interaction with digital technologies and automation. He is on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics and the International Journal for Human-Computer Studies. He also regularly serves as vice chair of the ACM Committee on Human Factors in Informatics (CHI) subcommittee "Understanding People". He co-founded the Engineering Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society and co-authored a book chapter entitled "Teaching Engineering Psychology". In 2019, he was the technical program chair of the ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and the general coordinator of the 2021 Neuroergonomics Conference and the 2025 Mensch und Computer Conference.
Lewis Chuang was project leader for the CRC Transregio 161 "Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing", which aimed to complement qualitative evaluations of visual computing (e.g. data visualization, AR/VR) with quantitative approaches. Here he led the working group "User-oriented test methods" and introduced the use of implicit user activities (i.e. eye tracking, skin conductance, EEG/ERP) to derive user states during their interaction with visual computing. He brought similar expertise to the evaluation of European projects (e.g. SHAPE-IT, myCopter) in the field of future transportation design as well as to nationally funded projects on health diagnostics (e.g. BMBF-IDeA) and smart objects (e.g. BMBF-bitplush). In the context of the Capital of Culture 2025, he will collaborate with the State Office for Archaeology of Saxony on a project entitled "Augmented Reality in Chemnitz for historical, inclusive and virtual experiences" (ARCHIVE) to help passers-by visualize hidden archaeological sites. He has also won the tender to co-organize the largest European conference for human-computer interaction (Mensch und Computer) in Chemnitz in 2025.

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Michael R. Müller is Professor of Visual Communication and Sociology of Media. He is chairman of the “Sociology of Knowledge” section of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and, from April 2025, Managing Director of the Institute for Media Research at Chemnitz University of Technology. He received his doctorate in sociology from Hans-Georg Soeffner and Thomas Luckmann. Prior to his appointment at the Chemnitz University of Technology, he held a junior professorship in cultural anthropology and sociology. In 2021 he was also awarded with the Paul Lazarsfeld Visiting Professorship at the University of Vienna. He is a board member of the Sociology of Knowledge Section of the DGS, a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen and founding member of the International Graduate School "Visual Sociology" (Internationales DoktrandInnenkolluquium “Visuelle Soziologie”) Vienna-Chemnitz-Landau. Michael R. Müller heads the DFG projects “Styles of Life 2.0” and, as part of the SFB 1410 Hybrid Societies, the project “Social Displays. On the Accountability of Embodied Digital Technologies in Everyday Life” and the Thyssen project “Sehordnungen. The Rationality of Immersive and Explorative Image Use”. He was also a PI in the DFG Research Training Group "Cross Worlds. Connencting Virtual and Real Social Worlds".