Research
Research fields
- Aesthetics and contemporary design theories,
- Hermeneutic phenomenology/Aesthetics ; Gestalt theory (Edmund Husserl, Christian von Ehrenfels, Mikel Dufrenne, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Maldiney, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault),
- Philosophical anthropology: how phenomenology inspire anthropology (on the phenomenological view of space).
Research affiliations
Since 2009: Expert committee member at the Quebec Fund for Research on Society and Culture ("Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture - FQRSC"), Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export ("Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation - MDEIE - du gouvernement du Québec").
Since 2006: Permanent researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics ("Laboratoire d'Esthétique Théorique et Appliquée – LETA"), also at the Centre of Aesthetics Research ("Centre de Recherches en Esthétique – CRE") and at the Environment and Design Study and Research Centre ("Centre de Recherche et d'étude en Design et Environnement – CREDE") of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (EA 2478).
2007-2008: Member of the French-speaking design research network ("Ateliers francophones de la Recherche en Design - ARD"). Conference program coordinator for the fourth session organised by the School of Media and Design in Nantes on June 12-13, 2008.
2007-2008: Scientific coordinator and manager for research projects, School of Media and Design ("L'école de design de Nantes").
2001-2006: Researcher at the Visual Arts Study and Research Centre ("Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Arts Plastiques – CERAP") of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (EA 2479).
Research grants and contracts
Since 2008: Head of internships and industrial patnerships for the "Services and Communication Networks" department of the University Institute of Technology (Aubière/Le Puy-en-Velay, FRANCE).
Since 2007: Guest researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation ("l'Institut de Recheche et d'Innovation – IRI") of the Centre Georges Pompidou (Research programs are fully funded by Microsoft Corporation).
Expert consultant in computing design for the THD project (Internet "Très Haut Débit", a High-Speed Broadband usage platform that enables businesses to validate new online services) promoted by Cap Digital (a "business cluster" for digital content and services) and funded by the General Directorate for enterprises ("Direction générale des entreprises - DGE"), the Ministry of Industry and the regional council of Ile-de-France. This research project is managed by the Group of High Schools of Telecommunication ("Groupe des Ecoles de Télécommunications - GET"), the University of Paris XIII Saint-Denis, The Fondation "Maison des Sciences de l'Homme" (FMSH - literally "House of the Sciences of Man"), the registry for the internet domain names (of .fr and .re, Reunion Island - "Association Française pour le Nommage Internet - AFNIC") and also five companies which are Orange, FaberNovel, Ubisoft, Sony CSL and UniversCiné.
2008-2009: Co-chair of an high-level academic conference in the fields of Art, Science and technology titled "From the virtual space to the new presence of body (awakened body)". This conference is organized by the Laboratory of Aesthetics and Experimentation of Space ("Laboratoire d'Esthétique et d'Expérimentation de l'Espace - LEEE") of the University of Auvergne on june 22-24, 2009.
Chair of the first conference session focused on body-based interactions ("Le corps dans l’interaction") consisted of 4 invited lectures by renowned speakers:
- Pr Bernard Andrieu, University of Nancy I Henri Poincare,
- Dr Timothée JOBERT, CEA-LID (laboratory of sociology, Grenoble),
- Pr Fabienne MARTIN-JUCHAT, University of Grenoble III Stendhal,
- Pr Alain MILON, University of Paris X Nanterre.
2006-2008: Head of the work pakage "data visualization (InfoVis)" (expert consultant in GUI design) on the research project "SEISM" (Scenario Editing Interactive State Machine) in collaboration with researchers of "Ecole des Mines" branch of Nantes, engineers of Succubus Interactive society and also designers of the School of Media and Design. This project is supported by the French National Research Agency ("L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche - ANR").
2004: Co-chair of a CNRT-Tim seminar dedicated to "pluridisciplinar approachs for creation and innovation in the visual communication field". The National Centre of Technological Research ("Centres National de recherche Technologique - CNRT"). This seminar is organised by the Medialab of Thomson R&D France and IRISA laboratories (a French research institute in the forefront of information and communication science and technology) of Rennes (Brittany) on october 12, 13, 2004.
Doctoral dissertations Supervised
Since 2009: PhD thesis co-supervisor of the Pierrick Thebault's ongoing thesis/dissertation (industrial research partnership/"CIFRE" Convention with Alcaltel-Lucent) in collaboration with Pr Simon Richir, director of "Présence et Innovation" research lab of "Arts et Métiers" ParisTech, Dr Henri Samier, director of the Innovation branch of "Arts et Métiers" ParisTech and also Frédérique Pain, head of User Experience Design of Bell labs (Alcatel-Lucent).
Dissertation title: "Enhancing user experience design for the web things".
Since 2007: PhD thesis co-supervisor of the Clément Gault's ongoing thesis/dissertation (industrial research partnership/"CIFRE" Convention with Orange) in collaboration with Pr Christine Chevallereau, Director of the Robotics Research Lab ("L'Institut de Recherche en Communication et Cybernétique de Nantes - IRCCyN, UMR CNRS 6597") of the University of Nantes, Dr Cédric Dumas, associate professor at "Ecole des Mines" branch of Nantes, Dr Emmanuel Mahé, senior consultant at Orange labs.
Dissertation title: "Tangible/active user interface systems for communication".
Concurrent and/or Visiting Positions
Since 2009: Visiting professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (master's degree). Course title: "Web Based Video Editing on Mobile Phones".
I teach theoretical and practical courses on mobile user interface design:
- Theory of interfaces,
- Theory of computing design: mobile design and development services* (Context-Aware and RichMedia mobile services).
* Dedicated terminals: PMP, smartphones, PDA, GPS, mobile phones, etc.
Since 2009: Head of a research program ("ParisDesignLab") dedicated to the study "design for urbanity" (e.g. "social design: the city-lab or the new form of public space - of urban revival").
Since 2009: Coordinator of a course design workshop dealing with "object to be completed" with graduate and post-graduate students of Telecom ParisTech (with a group of foreign students that came as participants of ATHENS program), of Ateliers-Paris Design Institute and of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Since 2009: Expert at the joint FQRSC-Hexagram support program in the New Media Arts and Technologies (Research/Creation) of the the Quebec Fund for Research on Society and Culture ("Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture - FQRSC"), a Quebec grant agency.
