Dear Colleagues and students,

We are pleased to inform you that the Interface Design Department at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University , Malaysia in collaboration with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is organising the 21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT2008). HFT2008 is also supported by the Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

HFT2008 is a 4-day event comprising of workshops, keynote speeches by leading researchers and industrial experts, focused symposiums, technical oral presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions and industrial panels. All accepted papers will be published (with an ISBN) by Prentice Hall-Pearson.

The purpose of this conference is to provide a global forum for designers, academicians, manufacturers, service providers, and all practitioners to exchange experiences and ideas on issues relating to the challenges, innovations, standards and potential solutions for telecommunication, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services, applications, user experience design, new media development, accessibility of ICT and related research and development activities.

Theme of the Conference: User Experience of ICTs

Keynote Speakers:
·  Dr Kristin Braa, Managing Director & VP of Telenor Research and Innovation Centre Asia Pacific (TRICAP)
·  Takahiro Iijima, Team Leader of Human Interaction Design, Director & Manager, Panasonic Design Company (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)
·  Jim Nieters, Director of User Experience, Yahoo! Inc.

Local Organising Committee:
·  Conference Chair: Chee Weng Khong
·  Conference Secretary: Chui Yin Wong
·  Conference Advisor: Harold Thwaites
·  Committee Members:
   -  Boon Cheong Quek
   -  Muhammad Asyraf
   -  Anthony Wong
   -  Md. Fariz Faizal
   -  June Jong
   -  Kimberly Chu

Permanent Steering Committee:
·  Bruno von Niman, vonniman consulting, Sweden
·  Martin Böcker, Siemens AG, Germany
·  Anne Clarke, European Management Services, UK
·  Pedro Concejero, Telefónica Investigación y, Spain
·  Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc., USA
·  Edmond W. Israelski, Abbott Laboratories, USA
·  Lothar Mühlbach, Fraunhofer Institute für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
·  Michel Näel, Ergonomics & Design, France
·  Leon van Noorden, University of Ghent, Belgium
·  Knut Nordby, Telenor, Norway
·  John Seton, BT Group Technology, UK
·  Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria

·  Chee Weng Khong, Multimedia University , Malaysia

·  Platinum Sponsor: Telenor

·  Strategic Partners:

We look forward to welcoming you in Kuala Lumpur at this premiere event in the ICT calendar!

To register and participate in the HFT2008, please refer to http://www.hft2008.org for more information.

Yours sincerely,

Chee Weng Khong
Local Conference Chair
HFT2008