IntuiLab

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IntuiLab > www.intuilab.com

Introduction

IntuiLab is a SME created in 2002 by senior researchers in Human-Computer Interaction. IntuiLab develops and markets IntuiKit, an award winning user interface prototyping environment resulting from 10 years of research and development. IntuiKit integrates advanced interaction technologies such as speech, gesture, handwriting, graphics and animation and supports wireless networks (IR, Bluetooth, Wifi). On the other hand, IntuiLab offers expertise in user-centred innovation, design and prototyping of multimodal and mobile systems. This expertise covers complex system design, multimodal user interfaces, multi-device systems (services accessible from many devices such as PC, PDA, mobile phone) and collaboration systems. IntuiLab is currently involved in several projects with major European actors of the Telecoms, Transport and Defence Industry. It maintains continued research partnerships with user interface research groups at CENA, the French Air Navigation R&D Centre, and IRIT, the Institute of Research In Computer Science of Toulouse.

Role

IntuiLab will lead on this project the work package on usability of mobile user interfaces. We will contribute to the elicitation of usability requirements and the design and validation of new styles of interaction that will make mobile services easy to use whatever the situation is. Intuilab will involve users in the design cycle, develop several mock-ups with IntuiKit, its prototyping environment, and test their usability and users’ satisfaction. Two persons from IntuiLab will be involved in this project, an HCI engineer and a senior researcher in Usability, both having previous experiences in European projects.

Key Personnel

Dr Laurent Karsenty is a research director in cognitive ergonomics and one of the three creators of IntuiLab. Since 1994, when he received in PhD from Université Paris VIII, he works on Human Computer Interaction in the field of conversational and collaborative systems. He is experienced in user needs analysis and modelling, user interface design and usability test. He has published about 40 refereed papers. Since many years, he acts also as expert consultant in Telecommunications Industry. He is currently conducting the scientific program of IntuiLab, which is aimed at defining new styles of interaction and design methodologies for multimodal and mobile systems.

Dr Stéphane Sire studied computer science at the ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France from 1992 to 1994. He worked on his master thesis in the field of natural language dialog applied to human-computer interaction. During his PhD studies, he worked at IMASSA, a military medical and ergonomic research centre near Paris, preparing a Wizard-of-Oz experiment to evaluate users' preferences in the choice of modalities (voice and gesture) for interacting with a video game. In 2000 he was awarded an ERCIM Fellowship Grant that he has spent as a post-doctoral associate at the MEDIA research group in Lausanne, and at the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction theme of the CWI, Amsterdam in 2001. Since then, he has been research assistant at the school of engineering at EPFL Lausanne for 1 year and a half in 2002 and 2003 and part-time research assistant at the computer science of the university of Fribourg Switzerland in 2002. There, he worked on new measures of usability in e-learning environments, and on multimedia information management projects.