Thomas Baudel (en français) contact

Occupations

Professional activities

• Since 1998: Principal scientist at ILOG.
  Information Visualization framework and interactive tool: ILOG Discovery
  Interactive edition of Direct Manipulation interfaces (Business Graphic Objects).
• 1995-1998: Alias|Wavefront Toronto, then Paris: Researcher, User Interface.
  Working on misc. interaction techniques: two-handed input, new input devices, mark-based interaction, 3D interaction...
• 1990-1994: le point sur le i: consulting and business management software development. founder and CEO.
• 1986-1989: ACI: support engineer and developer. 

Research Community Involvment

• Dmoz editor for the information visualization and Gestion des connaissances categories.
• ASTI, Association Française des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information: founding commitee member.
• Member of the board of AFIHM, the French Language HCI society.
• Co-chair of the conference IHM 2002.
• Organizer of the 1st Input Research Workshop at Ribeaucourt, Apr. 2000.
• Member of the Program Commitee for the IHM conference since 1997.
• Reviewer for SIGCHI and UISTconferences.

Research Themes

short biography

• Information Visualization.
• Morphology of Human-Computer Interaction
• Gesture and Mark-based interaction
• Architectures and tools for interactive applications design and implementation
• Interactive construction of direct manipulation interfaces.

Teaching

• Various courses on: novel interaction techniques, user interface and graphic design, tools and methods for the implementation of user interfaces.
• Human-computer Interaction: DEA Informatique Paris XI, DEA INSTN, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Université Paris IX.
• X-Windows and Motif programming, Nouvelle formation d'ingénieurs, IUT Orsay, DESS Informatique Paris XI
• Object oriented databases, Nouvelle formation d'ingénieurs, IUT Orsay
• Complete course on user interface design and implementation for software engineers.

Documents

Publications

• PhD thesis
• bibliography

Programmes

• Visual data analysis tool: ILOG Discovery.
• Draw your Music
• Visualizing sort algorithms in Java.
• Try Ligne Claire.
• Some tools I used to create the first WWW server at LRI, back in 1993.
• bib2html: translates BibTeX files into HTML.
• misc. software.

Autres Documents

• Les grouillots de la 3D disent au revoir....
• My resume (cv en Postscript et en anglais) (very old)
• Songs and dances from the Wallis and Futuna islands, recorded in 1964.
• Various documents.

Page modifiée le 10/01/2005.