Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

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Office location : building 490, 3rd floor, ext. 5 69 10, e-mail mbl@lri.fr

Short resume (2 pages, in French, PDF), Full resume (50 pages, in French, PDF)

News

• Viewpoint article in CACM on Open Access Publishing: [HTML], [PDF]
• WILD project : the largest high-resolution wall display in the world.

Activities (current and recent)

• Professor in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud;
• Member of In Situ, a PCRI joint project between LRI/Université Paris-Sud-CNRS and INRIA Saclay;

• Former director of LRI, the Laboratory of Computer Science at Université Paris-Sud and CNRS;
• Guest Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus (Denmark) September 1998 - August 2000;
• Former Vice-Chair for teaching, Department of Computer Science;

• Conference co-chair for ECSCW 2005, European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work;
• Conference chair for UIST 2002, ACM Symposium on User Interfaces Software and Technology;
• Papers co-chair for CHI 2001, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems;
• Founder and first President of AFIHM, Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (French HCI Association);
• Former member of the executive committee of ASTI, Association des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information;
• Former member-at-large of the ACM Council and member of the ACM Publications Board.

Teaching (in French)

• Human-Computer Interaction (various levels).

• Recent courses:
  • Advanced Computer Graphics, Master (4th year level);
  • Imperative programming, DEUG MIAS (2nd year level);
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics, Licence (3rd year level);

• Author of "Les Langages à Objets : principe de base, techniques de programmation" (Armand Colin, 1992)
  • English version published by Chapman & Hall.
  • French version available on-line!

Research

• Publications
  • The article "Designing Interaction, not Interfaces" presented as opening keynote at AVI 2004 (Advanced Visual Interfaces), was ranked 6th in the December 2004 Top 10 Downloads of the ACM Digital Library!

• Novel interaction techniques, including the use of sound, gesture and two-handed input
  • Instrumental interaction, and the CPN2000 project;
  • DIVA, a system for visualizing and computing with multimedia streams;
  • The ENO audio server (see also the ongoing work by Stéphane Conversy).
• Engineering of interactive systems, including interaction toolkits and User Interface Development Environments
  • The INDIGO RNTL Project : Interactive Distributed Graphical Objects
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), including shared editors and mediaspaces
  • Editor of a book on Computer Supported Co-operative Work, Trends in Software Series, Wiley.
  • Full-text is available on-line!

Other links

• Organizations:
  • AFIHM - Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine
  • InteractiF - mailing list
  • GDR I3 - French research programme on Information - Interaction - Intelligence
  • ACM SIGCHI - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
• Conferences and journals:
  • IHM - French conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • UIST - Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
  • CHI - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    • chi95, chi96, chi97, chi98, chi99, chi2000, chi2001, chi2002, chi2003, chi2004
  • RIHM - French Human-Computer Interaction journal
• Other links
  • HCI Bibliography
• Memories...
  • L'Ecole Interaction Homme-Machine (Summer school in HCI, 1997).
  • Le numéro spécial de La Recherche : L'ordinateur au doigt et à l'oeil (Special issue of La Recherche)
  • Le groupe de travail SCOOP (Working group on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
  • Le numéro spécial de TSI Multimédia et Collecticiel (Special issue of the TSI french journal)
• Alexandre, Matthew, Wendy and the family picture.

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