Lars Elbæk is an associate professor and researcher in the unit Learning and Talent in Sport (LET’S), SDU. He is a lecturer and researcher in movement interaction and design and has several years of experience in sport, physical movement, learning, and sport pedagogy. His specialty is in movement-based design methods for sport and movement innovation and entrepreneurship.

Lars collaborates closely with the sports startup ecosystem of Denmark for research and educational purposes and the employability of students. He believes MeCaMInD will qualify movement-based design further and develop the students’ skills for healthy living and the well-being of the citizens in general.

Robby van Delden is a researcher at the Human Media Interaction (HMI) group of the University of Twente. He received an MSc degree in Human Media Interaction and an MSc in Industrial Design Engineering (Emerging Technology Design track), and a PhD on his work on "(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior". He focuses his research on interactive whole-body interaction and persuasion during play. He looks at various contexts from stimulating movement to transforming social interactions and from doing this for children to the elderly.

René Engelhardt Hansen has a MSc in sports and health from the department of Sports and health at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) He teach and do research and educational development in the unit Learning & Talent in Sports. His main fields are project- and innovation management and design process facilitation. His approach is characterized by design thinking, aiming for user involvement in the design process through workshops in product, service, and social innovation. His research work has focused on the use of gamification and gameful design to inspire and motivate users towards health behavior change.

Mats Johnsson is a senior assistant professor in sports science. He is academic international coordinator at the Department of Sports Science. Active primarily with a focus on sports science. Digital pedagogy in active learning spaces and methods at the Faculty of Learning and Society. Sports teacher Bilingual teaching in sports.

Søren Lekbo has an MSc in sports and health from the Department of Sports Sciences and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He is currently a research assistant in LET’s research unit (Learning and Talent in Sport) and teaches and do research and educational development. Søren graduated with his master thesis in creating movement-based design methods cards. His key interest is to utilize bodily experience from the beginning of the design process to create engaging and interesting movements. He researches and analyses tenses and point-of-view in qualifying the movement-based design processes.

Dees Postma has an interest in (visual) perception. He believes that human behavior can be understood through the intricate relation between man and the environment. In his PhD, he aimed at developing an Affordance-Based perspective on the Fly Ball paradigm, a keystone paradigm in Ecological Psychology. He demonstrated that outfielders, running to catch fly balls, display gaze behavior that would naturally fit Affordance-Based control.

His current efforts are focused on the use of technology to better the experience of sports, in terms of performance, learning and engagement. He employs philosophy, theory and design thinking techniques to inspire his research.

Dennis Reidsma is an Associate Professor at the Human Media Interaction group and lecturer at the Creative Technology curriculum at the University of Twente.

Besides several high impact publications, his PhD on behavior generation for coordinated interaction with social agents led to the release of AsapRealizer (formerly Elckerlyc), a state-of-the-art Open-Source software platform for generating continuous interaction with Virtual Humans, social agents, and robots.

Over the last years, he also developed a research line on interactive playgrounds for play, care, and learning through user experiments with several proof-of-concept prototypes.

Ana Tajadura-Jiménez holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She obtained a PhD degree in Applied Acoustics (2008) at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She coordinates the research line "Multisensory stimulation to alter the perception of body and space, emotion and motor behavior" at the intersection of human-computer interaction and neuroscience. She is the principal Investigator of the project "MAGIC SHOES: Changing sedentary lifestyles by altering mental body-representation using sensory feedback". Her research interests include body perception, embodied cognition, affective interaction, virtual reality and wearable and self-care technologies to support emotional and physical health.

Annika Waern is a "research through design" academic with a background in computer science and Human-Computer Interaction, who has been researching play and games for about fifteen years. Recently, Annika has studied technology-supported physical training and hybrid play design for children, adults, and families. Annika is a DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) distinguished scholar and a HEVGA (Higher Education Video Game Alliance) fellow.