In brief ...
I'm currently "Maître de Conférences" (something like Associate Professor) at the University of Toulouse (France) and received the Habilitation (HDR : Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in 2009.
I am leading the Elipse research group of the Research Institute of Computing Science of Toulouse (IRIT). Elipse is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the modelling, design and evaluation of advanced forms of interactive techniques, used in complex situations (mass applications, disabilities, mobility, etc.).
I am mainly teaching in the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) in Tarbes where I am also in charge of the Licence Pro CISPM.
About me ...
I first spent 5 years in the Université de Technologie de Compiègne
(UTC)
where I received a "Master Degree" in Computing Science.
During that time I had the opportunity to spend 7 months in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)
and also 8 months in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) during two training periods.
Then, I moved to the University of Grenoble
(Université
Joseph Fourier). There, I did my PhD thesis in the LIG research lab and was
supervised by
Laurence Nigay and
Jocelyne Troccaz.
I obtained my PhD in Computing Science in July 2001.
During 2001/2002, I spent one year in the Department of Computing Science
(DCS) in the University of Glasgow (Scotland - UK) as a visiting
research scientist, working with Phil Gray.
Finally I "landed" in Toulouse and Tarbes in 2002 !
... and now !
My research domain is Human Computer Interaction and I am more specifically interrested in design methods and models for user's interaction with Mixed Interactive Systems: MIS (also known as augmented reality, context-sensitive systems, augmented virtuality, etc.), one advanced form of Interactive Technique. I am particularly interrested in
- developping models to describe different levels of such forms of HCI,
- integrating them into design methods to adapt the design ressources to MIS,
- articulating them into design process to structure their use for the MIS domain, and
- exploring how to anchor evaluation results and evaluation method into model-based approach, still in the domain of MIS.
This work is developped in the context of Museum applications, complex system monitoring and to a lower extent so far to aeronautics and maintenance.
Concerning the teaching part of my job, I am mainly teaching in Tarbes to undergraduate students. Lessons includes Java programming language, programming for the web and a bit of HCI. In Toulouse I am teaching to master students, especially introducing specificities and constraints of the design and implementation of advanced interaction techniques (mixed interactive systems, augmented reality, tangible UI, mixed reality, etc.).