Gaëlle Calvary
Professor
Contact
+33.4.76.51.48.54
office B206, bâtiment IMAG B
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
385, rue de la Bibliothèque
BP 53, F-38 041 Grenoble cedex 9
France
Research interests
Research area: "Plasticity of User Interfaces and more generally Quality of Human Computer Interaction"
Summary. My research is about the engineering of Human Computer Interaction in Ambient
Computing. More specifically I study the ability of User Interfaces (UI) to adapt to the context of
use (user, platform, environment) while preserving human-centered properties. This capacity is
called UI plasticity. The challenges I face to are two fold: a theory of adaptation, and a
software support for the development of plastic UIs.
More precisely. In the near future, there will be a need for elaborating a theory of adaptation to
predict and explain the difficulties that users encounter when adaptation occurs. Secondly, in
order to go beyond simplistic UI adaptation, there will be a need to bring together advances in
several research areas including HCI (to support multimodality), Software Engineering (in
particular, Model-Driven Engineering, Aspect Oriented Programming, as well as components and
services, to cover both design time and run time adaptation), as well as Artificial Intelligence (to
support situated information and planning). Indeed, in most current research, the user’s task
model is assumed as given and is used as the starting point for generating UIs on the fly. In
addition, the functional core is considered to be stable rather than compliant with opportunistic
discovery of services. In the coming years, we will need to confront challenges that go beyond
HCI: (1) incompleteness and uncertainty of the system perception of both the context of use and
of the appropriateness of the adapted UI; (2) combinatory explosion when composing a UI for
sustaining emergent users goals. Finally, we will need to develop environments (or studios) for UI
Plasticity to integrate partial advances, to make the theory operational and to alleviate designers
and developers task.
Recent publications [all]
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UsiCOMP: an Extensible Model-Driven Composer (2012)
In Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2012).
García Frey, Ceret, Dupuy-Chessa, Calvary, Gabillon -
Where do Facebook Intelligent Lists Come From? (2012)
In International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’2012).
Camara, Calvary, Demumieux, Mandran -
Examples Galleries Generated by Interactive Genetic Algorithms (2011)
In Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design (DESIRE’2011).
Masson, Demeure, Calvary
Demos
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Plasticité des Interfaces Homme-Machine en action, nov. 2009
An example for plastic e-service -
Plasticité en action, oct. 2009