Tracey Bowen is a Professor, Teaching Stream Emerita in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is also a mixed media artist. Her research focuses on visual rhetoric, visual metaphor, and drawing as a research methodology and has been published in Visual Communication, Metaphor and Symbol, Studies in Art Education, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development.

Dr. Tessa Berg is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University in Scotland within the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Her research interests are in information systems and socio-technical analysis with specific interest in using pictures and iconography to identify complex systems of human understanding. Dr Berg has a keen interest in collaborative methods of engagement and has helped pioneer a number of modern approaches to participatory methodologies such as Rich Picture analysis. Dr Berg has been involved in research and development projects across Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia.