Ongoing Work
I study convivial informatics through the design and development of alternatives to existing computational platforms. This involves platforms that take into consideration digital limits and foster sufficience, maintenance, autonomy, and durability. I favor participatory approaches, and investigate how we can design participatory infrastructures that are resilient to breakdowns. I also study participatory design tools. This ranges from enabling rapid prototyping by non-designers to documenting participatory design activities. I have also worked on more critical approaches to PD.
- [Hiring phds and interns] Understanding software obsolescence, with Nolwenn Maudet and Thomas Thibault.
- Understanding and negotiating digital limits with Nolwenn Maudet and Thomas Thibault.
- Supporting planning and documenting PD workshops with l'Atelier des Chercheurs.
- Turning Explore from the Placed project into a product with Alix Ducros and Raphaelle Bats.
- Understanding situated visualization and data physicalization.
Past Projects
In the past years, I have worked on activity centric computing, i.e., proposing technical and conceptual ways to make activities first class citizens of computing platforms (like files and applications are today). This work involved field studies to understand how people manage activities, technical contributions to demonstrate the feasibility and limits of such proposals, empirical studies to understand how such systems would transform practices. I have applied this work to a variety of domains such as education, sport, scientific research.
News
- Apr. 2022 - Co-organizing IHM22 doctoral consortium
- Mar. 2022 - AC for DIS 2022
- Oct. 2021 - What's the situation with situated visualization presented at VIS 2021. Collaboration with Nathalie Bressa, Henrik Korsgaard, Steven Houben, Jo Vermeulen. Situated Visualization survey website.
- June 2021 - presentation at #OSW2021, Cahiers numériques : entre exploration et explication
- Apr. 2021 - Boundary Objects in Design Studies Reflections on the Collaborative Creation of Isochrone Maps accepted at Eurovis 2021. Video teaser here, with Romain Vuillemot, Philippe Rivière, Anaëlle Beignon.
- Feb. 2021 - AC for ISS 2021
- Nov. 2020 - Valentin Lachand defended his PhD thesis, you can watch the presentation here.
- Sep. 2020 - Mohamed Ez-zaouia defended his PhD thesis, Factors for dashboards design and use to inform teachers’ practices in situ..
- Aug. 2020 - AC for ISS 2020
- June. 2020 - Two pictorials accepted at DIS (1) Tricky Design Probes: Triggering Reflection on Design Research Methods in Service Design with Anaëlle Beignon, Emeline Brulé, and Jean-Baptiste Joatton. and (2) Putting Down Roots: Exploring the Placeness of Virtual Collections in Public Libraries with Daisy Yoo, Peter Dalsgaard, Alix Ducros, Eva Eriksson, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose
- Apr. 2020 - Daisy Yoo will present joint work on Computational Alternative Vignettes conducted in the PLACED project at CHI 2020.
- Feb. 2020 - Two papers with Mohamed Ezzaouia and Elise Lavoué on learning dasboards are out, Emodash (IJHCS) and Prodash (CSEDU).
- Nov. 2019 - Alix Ducros will present our work with Clemens Klokmose on Situated Sketching and Enactment at ISS 2019.
- Oct. 2019 - Participating to Imagina Science roundtable on data and art.
- Sept. 2019 - Valentin Lachand presented Toccata, Supporting Classroom Orchestration with Activity Based Computing at Ubicomp 2019 in London.
- Sept. 2019 - Launching two new master-level teaching units Ubicomp Web and Project.
- June 2019 - Na Sun presented our work on the role of Emojis in Peer-Feedback at CSCL 2019.
- June 2019 - Attending the Dagstuhl seminar on Ubicomp Education.
- May 2019 - Staying at the University of Aarhus for a month.
- Oct. 2018 - Will present joint work with Simon Stusak on Variables for Data Physicalization at the Toward a Design Language for Data Physicalization workshop at VIS in Berlin.
- Sep. 2018 - I'm in sabbatical for a year :)
- Aug. 2018 - Our paper Aiding Collaborative Reuse of Computational Notebooks with Annotated Cell Folding with with Adam Rule, Ian Drosos and Jim Hollan got accepted to CSCW.
- Aug. 2018 - Our chapter on Situated Analytics, part of the Immersive Analytics book is out.
- May. 2018 - Our paper How teachers prepare for the unexpected, bright spots and breakdowns in enacting pedagogical plans in class with Ghita Jalal, Valentin Lachand and Christin Michel, has been accepted to EC-TEL.
- Apr. 2018 - Valentin Lachand, Ghita Jalal, and Alix Ducros co-authored 3 late breaking work to be presented at CHI 2018.
- Feb. 2018 - Our paper Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks with Adam Rule and Jim Hollan got accepted to CHI and received an honorable mention award!
- Feb. 2018 - We hosted the Interaction Design Education Summit, part of Interaction'18. The week was a blast!
- Dec. 2017 - New project with Romain Vuillemot on multi-modal transport is starting! Welcoming Alice Blot to the project.
- Nov. 2017 - Invited by Designers Ethiques and Designers+ to a roundtable on the documentary Ethics for Design
- Sep. 2017 - Presented our paper with Lili Tong and Audrey Serna at Interact - Horizontal vs. Vertical - How the Orientation of a Large Interactive Surface Impacts Collaboration in Multi-Surface Environments".
- June-July 2017 - Visiting Adam Rule and Jim Hollan @UCSD's Design Lab and CogSci dep.
- May. 2017 - Francesco Vitale will present our CHI paper "High Costs and Small Benefits - A Field Study of How Users Experience Operating System Upgrades", with Joanna McGrenere of the University of British Columbia, and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Wendy Mackay of Université Paris Sud and INRIA.
- May. 2017 - Lili Tong successfully defended her Ph.D.!
- Apr. 2017 - Lili Tong will present our paper with Audrey Serna, "Supporting Decision-Making Activities in Multi-Surface Learning Environments" at CSEDU.
- Mar. 2017 - Our paper with Lili Tong and Audrey Serna cond. accepted to Interact - "Horizontal vs. Vertical - How the Orientation of a Large Interactive Surface Impacts Collaboration in Multi-Surface Environments".
- Feb. 2017 - It's official! Interaction'18 will be in Lyon, I'm part of the organization committee and actively preparing in the Education Summit.
- Jan. 2017 - Our book chapter with J. Bardram and M. Esbensen - "Activity-Based Collaboration for Interactive Spaces", is published.
- Jan. 2017 - Mohamed El Zaouia is starting his Ph.D. on activity resumption and learning dashboards. Supervised by E. Lavoué and I, in collaboration with speakplus.fr.
- Dec. 2016 - Our ERA-NET project PLACED (PLace and Activity Centric Dynamic Library Services) was accepted!
- Dec. 2016 - Valentin Lachand is starting his Ph.D. on 3rd wave Activity Based Computing for education within the REPI project. He will be building activity based systems linking classrooms, library and home activities, and enable teachers to script activities and follow their unfolding.
- Oct. 2016 - Co-organizing the workshop LIVVIL – Logging Interactive Visualizations and Visualizing Interaction Logs at VIS'2016 with Romain Vuillemot, Jeremy Boy, Charles Perin and Jean-Daniel Fekete.
- Sept. 2016 - Two articles accepted at IHM'16.
- Sep. 2016 - Lili Tong will be presenting our paper with Audrey Serna at Mobile HCI, It's Not How You Stand, It's How You Move: F-formations and Collaboration Dynamics in a Mobile Learning Game.
- Jun. 2016 - AC for NordiCHI 2016.
- May. 2016 - FUI Grant accepted, on Activity Based Computing in teaching settings.
- Feb. 2016 - Two posters presented at CSCW 2016 by Adam Rule and Karen Boyd, with Jim Hollan.
- Jan. - Apr. 2016 - Teaching UX Design in the French MOOC on Information Architecture .
- July. 2015 - Jury member for the final year projects of DSAA Villefontaine.
- Jun. 2015 - Paper with Adam Rule, Karen Boyd and Jim Hollan accepted at CogSci 2015 - Restoring the Context of Interrupted Work with Desktop Thumbnails.
- Jun. 2015 - AC for IHM 2015
- Jun. 2015 - AC for AutoUI 2015
- May 2015 - CNRS PEPS Grant accepted to work on visualizations to explore physical and digital library collections.
- May 2015 - Taught the lecture on UX in the French MOOC on Information Architecture .
- Spring 2015 - Grant on Supporting Digital Skill Development submitted to ANR, with Yannick Prié and Sylvain Malacria
- Mar. 2015 - Joining the international relations committee of the lab.
- Fall 2015 - Contributed to the first book in French on Information Architecture.
- Sep. 2014 - Organizing UmiX with the Information Architecture Masters of Lyon, the theme is redesigning physical and digital libraries.
- Sep. 2014 - Participating to the Dagstuhl Seminar, Augmenting Human Memory, Capture and Recall in the Era of Lifelogging.
- Sep. 2014 - Invited to present at Living among screens, an international philosophy colloquium organized by Mauro Carbone.
- Aug. 2014 - Paper with Simon Stusak accepted at Infovis 2014: Activity Sculptures - Exploring the Impact of Physical Visualizations on Running Activity
- Aug. 2014 - Position paper with Amaury Belin and Yannick Prié accepted at DI 2014: Supporting the Development of Digital Skills
- Jun. 2014 - AC for NordiCHI 2014
- Feb. 2014 - Doris Hausen presented our paper on Evaluating peripheral interaction
- Nov. 2013 - Part of the WiP PC for TEI-2014
- Oct. 2013 - one selected
- Oct. 2013 - Part of the workshop jury for CHI-2014
- Oct. 2013 - Submitted a Google Research Award Proposal with Jim Hollan and Zhuowen Tu from UCSD; not selected but we're still working on the project
- Oct. 2013 - Presented our note on object and occlusion management on tabletops at ITS'13
- Aug. 2013 - Submitted a note to CHI'14 with Alexander Wiethoff; not in :(
- Sep. 2013 - Started in Lyon as Assistant Professor
- Aug. 2013 - Submitted paper to TEI'13 with Doris Hausen and Andreas Butz
- Jun. 2013 - Consulting on Active Reading and digital pen.
- May 2013 - Co-organized a workshop at CHI 2013, Avec le Temps! Time, Tempo, and Turns in Human-Computer Interaction with John Thomas, Pan Yue, Thomas Erickson, Eli Blevis and Catherine Letondal
- Jan. 2013 - Part of the Video showcase jury for CHI-2013
- Nov. 2012 - Part of the workshop jury for CHI-2013
- Nov. 2012 - Presented TIDE at the FITG in Lille (video)
- Oct. 2012 - Sonja Rümelin and Gilbert Beyer will present "Towards a Design Space for Non-Flat Interactive Displays" a position paper co-authored with Fabian Hennecke, myself and Andreas Butz at the ITS'12 workshop Beyond Flat Displays
- Sept. 2012 - Projects from ITU on digital pens for tabletops and device composition ready for submission.
- Sept. 2012 - Paper on occlusion and object management on tabletops submitted.
- Sept. 2012 - Wrapped up teaching Interaction Design with A. Wiethoff and Introduction to HCI with F. Echtler
- Spring 2012 - AC for NordiCHI 2012.
- Apr. 2012 - Ebbe S. Andersen our bio-partner from the Biomolecular Design Lab in Aarhus is presenting the eLabBench at FNANO'12, the 9th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience.
- Apr. 2012 - Started working at the Media Informatics/HCI group of LMU in Munich.
- March 2012 - Left the IT University of Copenhagen and the pIT lab after more than two amazing years.
- Jan. 2012 - Presented the eLabBench project to Arkitema architects
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Jan. 2012 - We submitted our paper on NoxDroid to CHI WiP (paper, poster). rejected :(
- Jan. 2012 - We will present our paper on the deployment of the eLabBench at CHI 2012.
- Dec. 2011 - Tim Kindberg work on augmented crowds was published as an official ITU technical report with the whole team as co-authors: Mesh Mobs. Virtually augmented crowds (pdf).
- Nov. 2011 - Our paper on the eLabBench, with Juan David Hincapié Ramos, Morten Esbensen and Jakob Bardram received the Best Paper Award at ITS 2011!
- Oct. 2011 - We showcased the work we do in the pITlab during Copenhagen's Culture night and got awesome participation, pictures here.
- Sept. 2011 - Exploring the Design Space of The Rabbit.
- Sept. 2011 - Our work on the eLabBench discussed in Version 2, the danish IT magazine. More coverage in videnskab.dk and Aarhus University science portal. Now also in Aarhus Stiftstidende (regional newspaper).
- May 2011 - GridOrbit – An Awareness System Supporting the Adoption of a Volunteer Computing Infrastructure, with Juan D. Hincapié Ramos and Jakob Bardram presented to CHI2011, we got an honorable mention!
- Spring 2011 - Proceedings co-chair for CHI'11 with Max Van Kleek and Nirmal Patel
- Our work on hybrid notebooks for the classroom was accepted at Interact 2011 - with Sylvain Malacria, Thomas Pietzak and Eric Lecolinet.
- Fall 2010 - Teaching Pervasive Computing course at the ITU with Jakob Bardam
- Fall 2010 - AC for CSCW'11
- Sept 2010 - Ubicomp Demos 2010 co-chair.
- Sept 2010 - The Mini-Grid project was presented to the Danish minister of research during her visit at ITU by J. Badram.
- July 2010 - We presented our DIS 2010 Note in Århus, Designing for the Invisible — Techniques for User-Centered Design of Infrastructure Awareness Systems, with Juan David Hincapié Ramos and Jakob Badram.
- 2010 - Proceedings co-chair for CHI'10 with Nathalie Riche
- Nov. 2009 - Started working as a postdoc in the PITlab, at the IT University of Copenhagen.
- November 2009 - Thesis defended. Supporting lightweight reflection on familiar information
- 27 Novembre 2009 - Soutenance de thèse au LRI.
- June 2009 - Co-organizing the Parisian CHI video showcase, with Fanny Chevalier and Olivier Bau.
- March-September 2009 - Post-doc at Telecom Paris Tech with E. Lecolinet
- April 2009 - Co-organizing Interacting with temporal data workshop at CHI 2009.
- 2005 to 2009 - Thesis at in|situ| with Wendy Mackay, INRIA and Université Paris Sud.
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If you have you own project that can be a good match with my research,
feel free to reach out as we have funding for visitors, and phd candidates.
If you are looking for Information Visualisation / Visual Analytics projects in Lyon,
check out Romain Vuillemot's webpage, for computer supported learning and gamification, Elise Lavoué.