The importance of HCI for solving societal challenges

about the GueSt editor Manfred Tscheligi is professor of HCI and usability at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies and Society, University of Salzburg, Austria. His research interests are usability and user-experience methodologies, innovative interaction environments, and contextual interfaces. He is also founder and director of CURE-Center for Usability Research and Engineering and the founder and managing director of USECON, a usability and user-experience consultancy firm, both located in Vienna, Austria.