Laboratoire de Communication Langagière et Interaction Personne-Système (CLIPS-IMAG) 291 rue de la bibliothèque, BP 53, Grenoble cedex 9, France Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Adamos kick-off meeting CLIPS-IMAG / MultiCom BARRALON Alice, CAELEN Jean, GOLANSKI Caroline, HARSCHE Martine, JAMBON Francis, MEILLON Brigitte, MILLIEN Evelyne, PERROT Christian, PONS Sylvie, ROUX Camille, VIDAL Audrey

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu IMAG Institute Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in Grenoble –Created in 1988 –About 700 people Federation of 8 research laboratories –CLIPS –GRAVIR –iD –LIEBNIZ –LMC –LSR –TIMC –VERIMAG IBM 360 ?

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu CLIPS Laboratory (UMR 5524) Head –Director: Jean CAELEN (Research Master CNRS) –Vice-Director: Catherine BERRUT (Professor UJF) Peoples: about 100 –Regular staff: about 75 people –Invited and trainees: about 25 people Founding Institutions: CLIPS Building

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu CLIPS Research Topics CLIPS means « Language-Based Communication and Man-Machine Interaction Laboratory » Research topics : –Collaborative interactions with machines –Speech, Image, Language Processing –E-Learning –Multimedia Document Indexing –Man Machine Interaction Engineering –Speech Recognition and Natural Language Dialogue –Collaborative and Multimodal Interfaces –Information Retrieval –Machine Translation –Language Processing

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu CLIPS Research Groups ARCADE (J.P. Peyrin, prof. UJF) e-Learning GEOD (J.F. Serignat, MCF INPG) Speech Group GETA (C. Boitet, prof. UJF) Machine Translation Group IIHM (J. Coutaz, prof. UJF) Man Machine Interaction Engineering MRIM (M.F. Bruandet, prof. UJF) Multimedia Information Retrieval MultiCom (J. Caelen, DR CNRS) Design and Evaluation of Interactive Systems

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu MultiCom Group MultiCom is a Usability Platform for the Design and the Evaluation of Interactive Systems A Multidisciplinary Group A Methodology A Usability Laboratory

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu A Multidisciplinary Group People from –Usability and Cognitive Engineering –Computer Science Positions –Research staff –Technical staff (engineers)  A Multidisciplinary Group for a Multidisciplinary Research Field !

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu The Methodology Objectives –Anticipate the use –Predict or analyze user needs –Define requirements –Design system interaction –Evaluate system usability along the lifecycle Using… –User Centered and Participatory design methods –Various usability techniques (e.g. field inquiries, user testing, early prototyping…) –Simulation techniques (e.g. Wizard of Oz) for experimentation and testing

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Idea Functions Specifications Scenario Observation Diagnostic Validation Mockup Evaluation A Good Starting Point: enrich the first idea Taking into account all the criteria about –sociological, –ergonomical, –economical, –technological points of view

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu MultiCom Usability Laboratory: « Centre des Technologies du Logiciel » Building –Experimentation rooms classic 30m 2 room reconfigurable 100m 2 room –Observation & technical room –Show room Ready on January 2005… Current Experimentation Room CTL Building today

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu MultiCom Usability Laboratory: hardware and software Audio-video capture and recording –DV and pan-tilt-zoom cameras –Fixed and wireless microphones –VCR, DVD-RW and digital recorders Noldus™ The Observer® software –Observational data recording –Analysis and management of observational data Add-on devices –Non-intrusive Eye-tracking –Wireless camera for mobile devices –Etc.

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu “Usage-oriented participatory design methods for communication services and ubiquitous devices” Project partners An Example : the Coucou Project

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Coucou Development Cycle SP2 : Conception meeting SP3 : reflexive observation SP4 Modeling and Conceptualization SP5 : Capitalization SP1 : Project management SP6 : Mockup-based testing

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Magic-board camera and video Magic-board Audio-video control Aaaaaaaaa Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaa Meeting minutes Room camera Device camera Meeting organizer Coucou Smart Meeting Room Data collection

Laboratoire de Communication Langagière et Interaction Personne-Système (CLIPS-IMAG) 291 rue de la bibliothèque, BP 53, Grenoble cedex 9, France Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Adamos kick-off meeting CLIPS Contributions Jean CAELEN, Caroline GOLANSKI, Martine HARSCHE, Francis JAMBON, Brigitte MEILLON, Evelyne MILLIEN, Christian PERROT

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu WP1 : State-of-the-Art Survey Work Package coordination Contribution level : medium Contribution(s) –Ergonomic issues User Models Adaptive user interfaces Design and evaluation methods –Software issues Software architecture models for Interactive systems

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu WP2 : Models and Tools Contribution level : medium Contribution(s) –Participatory and human-centered methods (with MSH) –Models (user, context, etc.) formalization –Factors influencing usability of proactive environments

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu WP3 : Specifications of Experiments Contribution level : low Contribution(s) –Scenarios definition (with MSH) –Usability factors in scenarios Challenge of the WP : scenarios requirements (in WP3.1) versus prototypes functions implementations (in WP3.2)

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu Wireless Mobile Device Camera from Noldus WP4 : Implementation of Prototypes and Environments for Experiments Contribution level : low Ergonomic Evaluation Laboratory –CTL platform may be used for experimentation Contribution(s) –Data collection from user, experts, prototype and context setup Audio & video recording from user and prototype Experts annotations logging Software events from prototype logging and filtering (optional)

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu WP5 : Experiments, Evaluation and Analysis Contribution level : high Contribution(s) –Experiments Preparation (protocol, methods, etc.) Realization Results filtering –Analysis and feedback Results analysis Result comparison with proposed models Models adjustments

Adamos kick-off meeting - December 4-5, Oulu CLIPS Contributions summary WP1 : State-of-the-Art Survey –Contribution : medium / Ergonomic issues WP2 : Models and Tools –Contribution : medium / Methods and models WP3 : Specifications of Experiments –Contribution : low / Scenarios WP4 : Prototypes and Environments for Experiments –Contribution : low / Data collection WP5 : Experiments, Evaluation and Analysis Contribution : high / Analysis and feedback