Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Born (1961-07-20) 20 July 1961 (age 63)
NationalityFrench
CitizenshipFrench
Alma materParis-Sud 11 University (PhD)
AwardsCHI Academy
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science (Human-Computer Interaction)
InstitutionsParis-Saclay University

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (born 20 July 1961) is a French computer scientist working in the field of human–computer interaction. He received his PhD from the Paris-Sud 11 University (which is now Paris-Saclay University) in 1985. He is currently professor of computer science at Paris-Sud 11 University since 1992 (in the in Situ group[1]) and was director of LRI, the laboratory for computer science, from 2002 to 2009.

He has worked in Human-Computer Interaction for over 20 years and was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2006. His research interests[2] include fundamental aspects of interaction, engineering of interactive systems, computer-supported cooperative work and novel interaction techniques. In 2004, his paper "Designing interaction, not interfaces"[3] has been one of the most heavily downloaded papers in the ACM Digital Library.[4] He has been featured in Ben Shneiderman's HCI Pioneers.[5]

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon was one of the founders, and first president, of AFIHM,[6] the French national equivalent of Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI. In recent years he has played major roles in CHI and UIST[7] conferences, serving as program chair or program committee member. From 2002 to 2008, he was a member-at-large of the ACM Council and member of the ACM Publications Board. He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to human-computer interaction, instrumental interaction and generative theory, and community leadership".[8]

  1. ^ [1], In Situ group's website.
  2. ^ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Michel+Beaudouin-Lafon Michel Beaudouin-Lafon in Google Scholar
  3. ^ Beaudouin-Lafon, M. (2004). "Designing interaction, not interfaces". Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces - AVI '04. pp. 15–22. doi:10.1145/989863.989865. ISBN 1581138679. S2CID 3395621., Beaudouin-Lafon, M. 2004. Designing interaction, not interfaces. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (Gallipoli, Italy, 25–28 May 2004). AVI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 15–22.
  4. ^ Crawford, D. (2004). "Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library". Communications of the ACM. 47 (12): 21–22. doi:10.1145/1035134.1035151.
  5. ^ "HCI Pioneers website".
  6. ^ [2], AFIHM's website (in french).
  7. ^ [3], UIST conference history.
  8. ^ "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.