Mastering Software Interfaces with Artisanal Interaction

Abstract:

The computer is the window through which we interact with an increasingly digital world. It is a medium for people to interact with data, computation, and people. Current tools, however, are usually designed for the lowest common cross-section of user, offering limited capabilities, expressiveness, and flexibility. In this talk, I present an overview of the work we do in the DIVA group to increase the interactive bandwidth of the tools we use everyday: developing new interaction paradigms that enable human and machine to work better together, to help users better master powerful interfaces, and to adapt software to an individuals' own needs.


Biodata:

James Eagan is an Associate Professor (maitre de conferences) in the Design, Interaction, Visualisation & Applications (DIVA) group at Telecom ParisTech with a research focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. He is also co-chair of the MS Big Data program. Before joining Telecom ParisTech, he was a post-doctoral researcher at LRI (CNRS & Universite Paris-Sud). He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and B.A. in Mathematics/Computer Science from Lawrence University.