Ph.D
Group : Human-Centered Computing
Theoretical Bases of Human Tool Use in Digital Environments
Starts on 01/10/2018
Advisor : BEAUDOUIN-LAFON, Michel
Funding : Contrat doctoral uniquement recherche
Affiliation : Université Paris-Saclay
Laboratory : LRI - HCC
Defended on 12/04/2022, committee :
Président :
- Jean-Daniel FEKETE, Directeur de recherche, Inria
Rapporteurs :
- Stéphane CONVERSY, Professeur, École Nationale d’Aviation Civile
- Yvonne ROGERS, Professor, University College London
Examinateur :
- Eric LECOLINET, Professeur, Télécom Paris
Directeur de thèse :
- Michel BEAUDOUIN-LAFON, Professeur, Université Paris-Saclay
Co-encadrant de thèse
- Baptiste CARAMIAUX, Chargé de recherche, CNRS
Research activities :
Abstract :
This thesis takes place in the context of the ERC Advanced Grant “ONE - Unified Principles of Interaction”, whose goal is to fundamentally re-think the basic principles and conceptual model of interactive systems to empower users by letting them appropriate their digital environment.
The project is based on the idea of leveraging our skills in interacting with the physical world to make digital environments easier to understand and more powerful. In particular we use tools to interact with our physical environment and we actively create new tools or appropriate existing objects as tools when needed. Can we do the same thing with digital environments?
The thesis will build upon our existing understanding of interaction and human tool use from psychology and the social sciences to conduct empirical studies testing the applicability of this knowledge to interacting with digital information. This will form a theoretical basis for the conceptual models that we seek to develop in other parts of the project. According to the results of the empirical studies, the thesis will also include the design and implementation of new conceptual ideas for tool-based interfaces.
