Catherine Letondal
Catherine Letondal Discussion des modèles d'interaction tangibles à travers l'expérience de conception participative de Strip'TIC, une plate-forme mixte pour le contrôle aérien.
13th Feb 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Amphi Rubis, Télécom ParisTech - 46 rue Barrault Paris 13 - Metro Corvisart
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Abstract:
Lors de cet exposé, après une courte présentation du prototype Strip'TIC (http://lii-enac.fr/en/projects/striptic/), j'exposerai les questions qui se sont posées à nous lors des différentes activités du projet, qu'il s'agisse d'interviews contextuels ou d'ateliers de prototypage participatifs. Je m'intéresserai ainsi aux problèmes de complexité associés à la conception d'interaction mixte : problèmes d'allocation mais aussi d'encodage physique et mixte des actions, notamment pour les aspects temporels de l'activité de contrôle. En m'appuyant sur ces analyses, je discuterai enfin la contribution que ce projet tente d'apporter aux modèles d'interaction tangible, notamment en intégrant mieux les problématiques de la cognition distribuée.
Biography
Since 2009, Catherine Letondal is a research engineer at the Interactive Computing Laboratory at ENAC in Toulouse. After working in the industry as a software engineer, she defended her PhD thesis in 2001 at the Pasteur Institute, on the subject of End-user programming for the biologists. She then worked in collaboration with the INRIA In Situ team at LRI, both on the design of augmented laboratory notebooks and on the use of the digital pen by contemporary music composers at IRCAM. Catherine's main research themes are: tangible interaction, and adaptation of software design processes to various specific contexts.
Her work on tangible interaction began with the exploration of the possibilities of digital pen and paper in various fields, such as laboratory notebooks for biologists, interactive scientific datasheets, augmented scores of composers, strips of air traffic controllers and job cards for aviation maintenance. Through each of these projects, the focus was first to understand why paper/pen devices and their very diverse properties particularly well align to the associated activities, and then to participatory co-evolve these devices by moving to mixed and digital properties. Currently, she reflects on the physical design space for situation awareness and performance in the interactive cockpit, where touch technologies are going to replace current electronic displays for flying and navigating instruments.
Her complementary experience in industry and research has also allowed Catherine Letondal to pursue a reflection on software development processes. During her thesis, she has observed and analyzed the programming practices of biologists in the context of a biology research institute - the Pasteur Institute - and proposed a process paradigm: participatory programming. She now focuses on the quite different context of system engineering in aerospace, when applied to interactive system design. In this context, participatory design brings to industrial processes - strongly based on models - an opportunity for early validation and maintaining consistency among multi-disciplinary stakeholders all along the process.