Anne Roudaut

I'm currently a Post-doctoral researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institut (Potsdam, Germany). I joined the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group managed by Patrick Baudisch the 1st of march 2010.

I performed my PhD thesis at TELECOM ParisTech in the group I3 of the Computers and Networks Dpt. (InfRes) in the VIA project. My research work was supervised by Eric Lecolinet, and was done in collaboration with Bell-Labs Alcatel-Lucent France. I defended my PhD thesis the 5 of february 2010.

The number of features available on mobile devices constantly increases but there use is now constrained by the limitations of the human-computer interface and the input modes available on this platform (small screen, no physical keyboard, etc.). Therefore, improving the interaction with such devices (PDAs, smart phones, Ipod-like, etc.) is an important research issue, whether it is academic or industrial. The purpose of my research thesis is to design, implement and test new techniques of visualization and interaction for theses devices. I am particularly interested on navigation interfaces for PDA or Smartphone which act as a "universal communicator" among people, content and services.

Previously I defended my Master and Magister with Pr. Joelle Coutaz, in the team IIHM CLIPS lab. of Grenoble (now named the LIG).

My research topics were in the emerging field of pervasive computing, and particularly on the interactive configuration by the user. I worked on the technical aspects by establishing a taxonomy of software architecture for plasticity. Then I worked on the concept of meta-UI to allow the user to configure, monitor and evaluate the state of its interactive spatial environment. This approach led me to also study end-user programming in this context.