Caroline Appert

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Overview

I am a research scientist (CR2 CNRS) at LRI in the in|situ| lab. I work on elaborating a generative approach for designing Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) to encourage adoption of advanced interaction techniques in our current applications. To that end, I conduct a longitudinal study of the whole design process: from interaction modeling to implementation without forgetting evaluation. My thesis and this 4-pages doctoral symposium article provide an overview of my research:

C. Appert. (2007). Modélisation, Évaluation et Génération de Techniques d'Interaction. Université Paris-Sud (PhD thesis). May 2007, Orsay, France.
C. Appert. (2006). How to Model, Evaluate and Generate Interaction Techniques? Doctoral Symposium article. In adjunct Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse, pages 15-18. (*)

Modeling Interaction Techniques

C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (2004). Context matters: Evaluating interaction techniques with the CIS model. In Proc. People and Computers XVIII - Design for Life -, HCI 2004, Leeds, UK. Springer Verlag, Sept. 2004, pages 279-295. (acceptance rate: 36%, 23/63) (*)
C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003). Context Matters: Evaluating Interaction Techniques with the CIS Model. Report #1372, Octobre 2003. LRI, Université Paris-Sud, France.
C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d'Interaction en Contexte. In Annexes des Actes des 15èmes journées francophones sur l'Interaction Homme Machine, IHM'03. pages 23-25. (*)

C. Appert, O. Chapuis and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2008). Evaluation of Pointing Performance on Screen Edges. In Proc. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2008, Napoli, Italy. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2008, pages 119-126. (acceptance rate: 27%, 32/117)

Evaluating Interaction Techniques

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E. Pietriga, C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2007). Pointing and Beyond: an Operationalization and Preliminary Evaluation of Multi-scale Searching. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2007, pages 1215-1224. (acceptance rate: 25%, 142/571)

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C. Appert. (2010). Augmenter la validité des évaluations des applications graphiques interactives. Journal Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI). 29, 1 (Jan. 2010), 11-29.
W. Mackay, C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, O. Chapuis, Y. Du, J.D. Fekete and Y. Guiard. (2007). Touchstone: Exploratory Design of Experiments. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2007, pages 1425-1434. (acceptance rate: 25%, 142/571)
Y. Guiard, J.D. Fekete, Y. Du, C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and O. Chapuis. (2006). Shakespeare's Complete Works as a Benchmark for Evaluating Multiscale Document-Navigation Techniques. In Workshop BELIV'06, International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'06), Venise, May 2006, 6 pages.

Implementing Interaction Techniques

more details...	C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2008). SwingStates: Adding state machines to Java and the Swing toolkit. Journal Software Practice and Experience. 38, 11 (Sep. 2008), 1149-1182. C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2006). SwingStates: Adding State Machines to the Swing Toolkit. In Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2006, pages 319-322. (acceptance rate: 23%, 40/174) () C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2006) SMCanvas : augmenter la boîte à outils Java Swing pour prototyper des techniques d'interaction avancées. In Proc. 18ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2006. ACM Press, April 2006, pages 99-106. (acceptance rate: 41%, 19/46). Best paper.()
more details...	C.Appert, S. Huot, P. Dragicevic and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. FlowStates : Prototypage d'application interactives avec des flots de données et des machines à états. (2009) In Proc. 21ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2009. ACM Press, pages 119-128. *Best paper*
more details...	C. Appert and S. Zhai. (2009). Using Strokes as Command Shortcuts: Cognitive Benefits and Toolkit Support. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009. ACM Press, April 2009, pages 2289-2298. (acceptance rate: 24.5%, 277/1130) (*)
more details...	C. Appert and O. Bau. (2010). Scale Detection for a priori Gesture Recognition. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010. ACM Press, April 2010, pages 879-882. (acceptance rate: 22%, 296/1346)

Novel Advanced Interaction Techniques

more details...	C. Appert and O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2012). Dwell-and-Spring: Undo for Direct Manipulation. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, To appear in CHI 2012. (acceptance rate: 23%, 370/1577)
more details...	D. Bonnet and C. Appert. SAM: The Swiss Army Menu. (2011) In Proc. 23ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2011. ACM Press, 4 pages.
more details...	C. Appert and O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2010). High-Precision Magnification Lenses. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010. ACM Press, April 2010, pages 273-282. (acceptance rate: 22%, 296/1346)
more details...	E. Pietriga, O. Bau and C. Appert. (2010). Representation-Independent In-Place Magnification with Sigma Lenses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 16, 3 (May/June 2010), 455-467. E. Pietriga and C. Appert. (2008). Sigma Lenses: Focus-Context Transitions Combining Space, Time and Translucence. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2008, pages 1343-1352. (acceptance rate: 22%, 157/714)
more details...	C.Appert and J.D. Fekete. Naviguer dans des grands arbres avec ControlTree. (2007) In Proc. 19ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2007. ACM Press, Novembre 2007, pages 138-142. C. Appert and J.D. Fekete. (2006). ControlTree: Navigating and Selecting in a Large Tree. Demo In adjunct Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse, pages 47-48.

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C. Appert and J.D. Fekete. (2006). OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006, Montréal, Canada. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2006, pages 21-30. (acceptance rate: 23%, 118/508) (*)