Seminar with UNS

We organize a seminar with Lise Arena (UNS, Gredeg) and Bernard Conein (UNS, Gredeg) between Inria and Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis on Digital artifacts and materialities. We organize a seminar on Law, Philosophy and Digitality between UNS faculties of Law and Philosophy and Inria. Alexandre Monnin will address the impact of digital technologies on law itself.

PEPS GéoIncertitude

We participated in the CNRS PEPS GéoIncertitude, with researchers of the UMR 7300 ESPACE of Nice and of the IRIT of Toulouse on the modeling of uncertainty in Geography using fuzzy logic and possibility theory, which was re-financed for a second year.

SPARKS Team (I3S)

Wimmics is member of the I3S SPARKS team (Scalable and Pervasive softwARe and Knowledge Systems). It is structured according to three axes: FORUM, ELK and S3.

SPARKS FORUM Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS FORUM research axis (FORmalizing with Users and Models). Catherine Faron-Zucker and Alain Giboin are co-animators of FORUM.

SPARKS ELK Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS ELK research axis (Knowledge Learning and Extracting). Andrea Tettamanzi is co-animator of ELK. Elena Cabrio, Tom Bosc and Farhad Nooralahzadeh contribute on it.

SPARKS S3 Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS S3 research group (Scalable Software Systems). Olivier Corby, Fuqi Song and Erwan Demairy contribute with federated distributed query processing in Corese with Johan Montagnat and Abdoul Macina. Catherine Faron-Zucker and Franck Michel contribute on it with Johan Montagnat on heterogeneous databases federation.

HCI Group (I3S)

Participant : Alain Giboin.

The HCI Group animated by Anne-Marie Dery brings together I3S researchers conducting or wishing to conduct research related to Human-Computer Interaction. The group specifically addresses the issues of how to conduct user experiments to evaluate the UIs of the software developed in SPARKS. The group establishes collaborations between researchers in the design and implementation of experiments. This year Wimmics collaborated in the design, running and analysis of two experiments aiming at identifying and testing a set of principles for designing tabletop applications. One of the experiment involved Alzheimer people.

Wimmics also contributed to a working paper on the teaching of task modeling in the HCI curriculum of Polytech (with Philippe Renevier, Anne-Marie Dery and Gaëtan Rey). This paper was requested by the AFIHM working group “Enseignement sur l’analyse de tâches : leçons acquises et nouveaux défis”.

MSHS: Axis-2 ”ICT, Usage and Communities”

Participants : Alain Giboin, Alexandre Monnin, Fabien Gandon, Emilie Palagi.

Axis-2 of the ”Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (MSHS) du Sud-Est (Nice)” aims to federate interdisciplinary research on the relationships between ICT, Practices and Communities. Wimmics is mainly involved in one of the Axis-2 groups-projects, ”Artifacts and Coordination.” This group-project studies the impact of cognitive technologies on the social and cognitive coordination between individuals in organizational and community contexts. Alain Giboin is co-animator of this group-project with Lise Arena (GREDEG). He is also co-animator (with Pierre Thérouanne (Lapcos), Lise Arena and Agnès Festré (GREDEG)) of the project ”Acceptabilitity of digital devices: an interdisciplinary perspective.” During the first workshop organized this year on this topic, a talk was given by Alain Giboin on ”Mesurer l’acceptabilité des collecticiels : de l’observation et/ou de la théorisation des activités collectives à l’élaboration de critères de mesure de l’acceptabilité”. Alexandre Monnin is co-animator (with Lise Arena and Bernard Conein (GREDEG)) of a series of seminars on ”Digital Artifacts and Materialities.” During the first seminar, talks were given by Alexandre Monnin on ”Quelques réflexions autour des couples artefacts/objets et numérique/matérialité”, and by Alain Giboin on ”Les personas comme artefacts substituts des utilisateurs dans un processus de conception”.