Ongoing Work

I study convivial informatics through the design and development of alternatives to existing computational platforms. This involves platforms that take into consideration digital limits and foster sufficiency, maintenance, autonomy, and durability. I favor participatory approaches, and investigate how we can design participatory infrastructures that are resilient to breakdowns. I also study participatory design tools. This ranges from enabling rapid prototyping by non-designers to documenting participatory design activities. I have also worked on more critical approaches to PD.

I am currently co-leading two projects: Limites Numériques and PC4-Congrats within PEPR Ensemble. And here are more concrete things I am working on:

• Understanding software obsolescence, with Edlira Nano, Gaëlle Fret, Nolwenn Maudet, Thomas Thibault, Romain Rouvoy, and Adrien Luxey.
• Understanding sufficiency and collectively negotiating digital limits with Léa Mosesso, Anaelle Beignon, Thomas Thibault, and Nolwenn Maudet.
• Understanding the interplay of micro design decisions and systemic forces shaping ICT with Anaelle Beignon, Thomas Thibault and Nolwenn Maudet.
• Materiality in data physicalization, with Bahare Bakhtiari, Sowmya Somanath and Charles Perin, from University of Victoria.
• Understanding and supporting digital skill development, with Maeva Calmettes, Mathieu Nancel and Sylvain Malacria from Inria Lille.

I spent 2023 in sabbatical at Inria Lille, in the Loki team, also collaborating with the Spirals team.

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Past Projects

In the past years, I have worked on activity centric computing, i.e., proposing technical and conceptual ways to make activities first class citizens of computing platforms (like files and applications are today). This work involved field studies to understand how people manage activities, technical contributions to demonstrate the feasibility and limits of such proposals, empirical studies to understand how such systems would transform practices. I have applied this work to a variety of domains such as education, sport, scientific research.

• PLACED : Place- and Activity-Centric Services for libraries, with the University of Aarhus, Chalmers University, the French National Library School, Dokk1, the libraries of Lyon and Goteborg.
• Understanding computational notebooks use with A. Rule and J. Hollan.
• Activity Centric Computing, including capturing and visualizing activity, and activity based computing for classroom orchestration.
• User experience of wayfinding in multi-modal mobility.
• Supporting biology researchers in capturing, re-visiting and reflecting on their personnal information (see my dissertation, and post-doc at ITU).