Michel C. Desmarais

Michel Desmarais is an associate professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal since 2002.  His field
of expertise is in the domains of Human-Computer Interactions, e-learning, and Artificial Intelligence.  He has 15 years of experience in software project management.  He was principal researcher of the Human-Computer Interaction and Computerized Learning
Environments groups at the Computer Research Institute of Montreal between 1990 and 1998, where he directed a research program in HCI and computer assisted learning, and was involved in a number of research projects in close collaboration with private corporations.  From 1998 to 2002, he was director of the Web services department in a private company (mvm.com) and leader of a number of R&D Web-based software projects.  He is the author of a book, ten scientific journal publications and over 20 book chapters and conferences papers.

 

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» 2006 «

Plouznikoff, Alexandre, Plouznikoff, Nicolas, Robert, Jean-Marc and Desmarais, Michel C. (2006): Enhancing human-machine interactions: virtual interface alteration through wearable computers. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 373-376. Available online

Plouznikoff, Nicolas, Plouznikoff, Alexandre, Desmarais, Michel C. and Robert, Jean-Marc (2006): Support mobile à la tâche: médiation utilisateur - monde réel par l'intermédiaire d'un ordinateur porté. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Association Francophone dInteraction Homme-Machine 2006. pp. 107-114. Available online

Jodoin, André, L'Archevêque, Régent, Allard, Pierre, Desmarais, Michel C. and Granger, Louis (2006): Un environnement de développement dynamique qui intègre des composants graphiques actifs. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Association Francophone dInteraction Homme-Machine 2006. pp. 293-294. Available online

» 2005 «

Seffah, Ahmed, Gulliksen, Jan and Desmarais, Michel C. (eds.) (2005): Human-Centered Software Engineering - Integrating Usability in the Software Development Lifecycle. Springer-Verlag
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» 1993 «

Desmarais, Michel C. and Liu, Jiming (1993): Exploring the Applications of User-Expertise Assessment for Intelligent Interfaces. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 308-313. Available online

Desmarais, Michel C., Giroux, Luc and Larochelle, Serge (1993): An Advice-Giving Interface Based on Plan-Recognition and User-Knowledge Assessment. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 39 (6) pp. 901-924924

Desmarais, Michel C. and Liu, Jiming (1993): Experimental Results on User Knowledge Assessment with an Evidential Reasoning Methodology. In: Gray, Wayne D., Hefley, William and Murray, Dianne (eds.) International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces 1993 January 4-7, 1993, Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 223-226. Available online

» 1987 «

Desmarais, Michel C. and Pavel, Michael (1987): User Knowledge Evaluation: An Experiment with UNIX. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 151-156.

Desmarais, Michel C., Larochelle, Serge and Giroux, Luc (1987): The Diagnosis of User Strategies. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 185-189.

 

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Desmarais, M. C., & Pu, X. (2005). A bayesian inference adaptive testing framework and its comparison with item response theory. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 15, 291-323.

Desmarais, M. C., & Pu, X. (2005). Computer adaptive testing: Comparison of a probabilistic network approach with item response theory. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2005) (pp. 392-396). Edinburg: Springer.

Desmarais, M. C. (2005). Web log session analyzer: Integrating parsing and logic programming into a data mart architecture. Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI'2005 (pp. 794-797). IEEE/WIC/ACM, Compiegne, France.

Desmarais, M. C., Fu, S., & Pu, X. (2005). Tradeoff analysis between knowledge assessment approaches. In C. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg, & J. Breuker (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AEID'2005 (pp. 209-216). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Desmarais, M. C. (1997). Le transfert technologique en IHM. 9eme journes sur l'ingenierie de l'interaction homme-machine (IHM-1997) (pp. 221-222).

Desmarais, M. C., Maluf, A., & Liu, J. (1996). User-expertise modeling with empirically derived probabilistic implication networks. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 5(3-4), 283-315.

Desmarais, M. C., & Khuwaja, R. (1996). Towards a standard, generic, and costeffective means of performing learner expertise assessment. Workshop on architectures and methods for designing cost-effective and reusable ITSs held with Intelligent tutoring systems, ITS'96.

Desmarais, M. C., Leclair, R., Fiset, J.-Y., & Talbi, H. (1997). Cost-justifying electronic performance support systems. Communications of the ACM, 40(7), 39-48.

Desmarais, M. C., Hayne, C., Jagannath, S., & Keller, R. (1994). A survey on user expectations for interface builders. Proceedings of ACM CHI'94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vol. 2. (pp. 279-280).

Desmarais, M. C., & Liu, J. (1994). Decentralized meteorology training using hypermedia. EdMedia'94 World conference on educational multimedia and hypermedia.

Desmarais, M. C., Giroux, L., & Larochelle, S. (1992). Fondements methodologiques et empiriques d'un systeme consultant actif pour l'edition de texte : le projet EdCoach. Technologies de l'information et societe, 4(1), 41-74.

Desmarais, M. C., de Verteuil, F., Jacob, D., & Zwack, P. (1991). Stratus: a prototype expert advisory system for terminal weather forecasting. Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (pp. 49-61).

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