Computers are transforming the nature of our experience of the world — and is making it better. So argues Russell Beale who leads the Birmingham Advanced Interaction Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham and co-author of the book  Human-Computer Interaction.

Russell is one of the panelists for the British Science Festival event on 15th September 2010, chaired by Sue Beardsmore where you can meet and talk with him and the other panelists. Please do come, or participate on-line — more information about how to do so will be posted shortly.

Dr Beale’s research is on using intelligence to support user interaction. As well as being a full-time academic, Russell has founded four companies and run two of them, provides consultancy services on projects he’s interested in, and used to race yachts competitively until a toddler and infant twins needed his attention — but once they’ve learned to sail, he’ll return to that as well.