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Projects

As a senior researcher/lecturer (Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche - MER) in the DIVA group, my major research field is human computer interaction (HCI). I am currently involved in the following projects:

  • the "Living in smart environments: Natural and economic gesture-based HCI" project (financed by the Hasler Foundation);
  • Humanitics: Visual Analytics for All (SNF Project): The project's goal is to help humanist professionals perform collaborative data analysis remotely through web-based interactive visualization.
  • the Human Centered Design and Evaluation Project (IP2 phase 3, part of IM2 NCCR on Interactive Multimodal Information Management)
And currently supervise the following PhD students: Ila Boyandin, Matthias Schwaller, Simon Ruffieux, Leonardo Angelini (See full list of past PhD students under teaching).

More details on ongoing projects can be found in my publications list. Other present and past projects: FP7 VisMaster CA, simpleUI, IM2.HMI, MeModules, NetSecurity, Risk Manager Dashboard, TotalRecall, Document Integration Project (IM2.DI), TIVIPOL, Database management and meeting analysis, SMAC, COMIND, Cobrowse.

Background

After completing my PhD in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1998), a postDoc in the USER group in IBM Almaden research center (1999), one year of teaching and research in the university of Avignon (2000), and a great experience as a usability engineer in a swiss start-up (2001), I finally reached Fribourg in 2002 (more details on my background here).