Biographical sketches of authors

Dirk Willuhn IBM Germany Laboratory, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (dwilluhn@de.ibm.com). Mr. Willuhn, a senior usability engineer, joined IBM Germany as an HCI and user research specialist in 1988. He has been a UCD team lead and user interface designer for a number of IBM products, including workflow management, database performance monitoring, data mining, and financial messaging. As a member of the IBM Corporate UCD Advisory Council and German DATech organization, he contributes to the development of procedures and methods for usability testing and User Engineering. He received his diploma in psychology from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Carsten Schulz IBM Germany Laboratory, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (schulzc@de.ibm.com). Mr. Schulz, a software developer, joined IBM Germany as a software engineer in 2000. He has been working in data-mining product development as a developer and team lead for visualization of data-mining results. He received his diploma in computer science from the University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Lieselotte Knoth-Weber IBM Germany Laboratory, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (lkw@de.ibm.com). Mrs. Knoth-Weber is currently a senior information developer, having joined IBM Germany as a management assistant in 1970. She was a management assistant in various IBM departments such as quality assurance, controlling, and plant management of the semiconductor manufacturing plants in Sindelfingen and Hannover, Germany. From 1988 until 1990 she was manager in the Central Administration department. In 1990 she joined the IBM Software Laboratory as an information developer. She has been team lead for various IBM projects, including data mining and content management.

Stephan Feger IBM Germany Laboratory, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (sfeger@de.ibm.com). Mr. Feger currently is an advisory visual designer and has worked as a visual designer in IBM Software Solutions Development, Boeblingen since 1995, driving the visual design direction for products such as MQSeries^® Workflow, Intelligent Miner for Data, and DB2 Performance Monitor. He joined the IBM Boeblingen Development Laboratory in 1984 and served as an industrial designer for a wide range of IBM hardware products until 1994. He received his diploma in industrial design from the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart and is a PMI-(Project Management Institute^®) certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Yannick Saillet IBM Germany Laboratory, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (ysaillet@de.ibm.com). Mr. Saillet is a software engineer and joined IBM Germany as a software developer in 1998. He first worked for IBM Learning Services as a software engineer in several distributed learning projects. He joined the IBM Boeblingen Laboratory in 2000 and has since been active in the development of DB2 Intelligent Miner products. He received his masters degree from the ESSTIN (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy) in Nancy, France.