Research
activities: Human interactions in telecommunication and computer environments.
Interdisciplinary work in socio-cognitive and computer science (see details in papers section)
- Artificial
Intelligence and human sciences (collectives phenomena, influence, motivation, forgetting mechanisms in social interactions,
etc),
- Web Mining and statistical modelling
(Traces analysis, characterization of Multimedia documents, social networks analysis, Small world, Scale free model, users' mobility behaviour, etc)
- Contextualized services (Recommendation systems, personalization in pervasives contexts ..)
In a few
words
The computers based complex systems as
Internet take an increasing role in the interactions between individuals. It
becomes clear that these systems cannot more be regarded as "cold"
media of communication but that their behaviour is largely dependent on the
human activity. From this point of view, the goal of our work is not only to
study computers systems or the human interactions in a separate way but rather
to understand these two naturally inter-dependent environments as a unique complex
system. In other words, we wish to investigate what the human factor changes in
computers behaviour and what computers changes in the human interactions or
practices.
Our interdisciplinary approach has
several aims. First of all, the goal is of modelling human-computers complex based systems
starting from traces of activity.
Our second
objective is to investigate practical modes of exploitation of these human-Computers
based models. In particular, we investigate the reuse of phenomena of implicit
co-operations within companies. The conjunction of the human activity and the
operation of a simple data-processing device make it possible of optimizing the
search and the access speed to information (e.g collaborative filtering in recommendation systems). We could say that in same manner
that industries benefit from existing energies (wind, sun, etc), we try to
exploit the co-operation and the latent collective intelligence in order to
solve real technical problems.
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