**About the Editors**

**Woodrow Barfield** (currently, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Turin, Italy; affiliate, Whitaker Institute, NUI, Galway): Woodrow (Woody) Barfield, Ph.D., J.D., LLM is a speaker, lecturer, and author who served as a Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington where he received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and where he directed the Sensory Engineering Laboratory. His research revolves around the design and use of wearable computers, augmented and virtual reality systems, and law and technology. He served as the Senior Editor of *Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments* and recently published "Musings on Presence Twenty-Five Years after 'Being There'" about his work on *Presence* within virtual environments. He is currently Associate Editor of the *Virtual Reality Journal* and is the Senior Editor of the first and second editions of *Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality*. His book "Cyber Humans: Our Future with Machines" talks about the possibility of a future in which humans may eventually merge with the technology/machines we are creating, including artificial intelligence. He edited "The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms", co-edited "The Research Handbook on Law and AI" (with Ugo Pagallo), co-authored "Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence" (with Ugo Pagallo), and co-edited "Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design", "Human Factors in Intelligent Transportation Systems", and the "Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality" (with Marc Blitz). Woody earned his PhD in Engineering from Purdue University and his JD degree and LLM in intellectual property law and policy, serving as an editor of the *Journal of Law, Technology & Arts*. He has authored numerous publications and presented at national and international conferences, including keynote addresses and articles in engineering and law review journals.

**Sayoko Blodgett-Ford** (Adjunct Professor, Boston College Law School, Newton Centre, MA 02459, USA, and Principal, GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates, Westwood, MA 02090, USA): Sayoko's practice focuses on intellectual property, contracts and privacy/data protection in mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive expertise in connection with technology M&A transactions. Sayoko is an Adjunct at Boston College Law School, where she teaches Artificial Intelligence and the Law and Mobile Apps & Big Data-Legal Contributions. She has also taught Privacy Law (2017–2019). She has also served as Lecturer in Law at the University of Hawai'i Law School, where she has taught Internet Law & Policy, Intellectual Property, Contracts Drafting, High-Growth Entrepreneurship and Administrative Law, among other subjects. She served as a Court Appointed Arbitrator for the Hawai'i State District Court—First Circuit. She previously served as acting general counsel of Tetris Online, Inc. and as Senior Manager of the Intellectual Property Group at Nintendo of America Inc. in Redmond, Washington. At Nintendo, Sayoko was responsible for domestic and international intellectual property clearance, defense, registration, and enforcement. Her particular areas of focus included patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and advertising, as well as privacy law compliance and video game ratings compliance. Sayoko has also taught advertising law in the University of Washington IP LLM program. Prior to Nintendo, Sayoko practiced at Foley Hoag LLP and was a law clerk for Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Sayoko holds a B.S. in Physics from the College of William and Mary, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Her publications include Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and

Responsibilities of Beings, in *Philosophies* https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6010005; A Real Right to Privacy for Artificial Intelligence (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo, editors) (2018) https:// www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-the-law-of-artificial-intelligence; Advertising Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (2018) (co-authors: Woodrow Barfield and Alexander Williams); and Data Privacy Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (2018) (co-author Mirjam Supponen) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/ research-handbook-on-the-law-of-virtual-and-augmented-reality.
