He obtained his PhD from Toronto University. Sidney Fels has worked in HCI, neural networks, intelligent agents and interactive arts for over ten years. He was visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories (1996-1997). His multimedia interactive artwork, the Iamascope, was exhibited worldwide. Sidney Fels created Glove-TalkII, which maps hand gestures to speech. He was co-chair of Graphics Interface 2000. He leads the Human Communications Technology Laboratory and is Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre. Sidney Fels co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.