Author: 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.

Publications

Publication period start: 2011
Number of co-authors: 13

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Alexandre Plouznikoff
2
Nicolas Plouznikoff
2
Jean-Marc Robert
2

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Ahmed Seffah
23
Jiming Liu
24
Jan Gulliksen
49

Publications

Desmarais, Michel C., Liu, Jiming (1993): Exploring the Applications of User-Expertise Assessment for Intelligent Interfaces. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik, 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. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/169059/p308-desmarais/p308-desmarais.pdf

Desmarais, Michel C., Giroux, Luc, 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. 901-924.

Desmarais, Michel C., Liu, Jiming (1993): Experimental Results on User Knowledge Assessment with an Evidential Reasoning Methodology. In: Gray, Wayne D., Hefley, William, Murray, Dianne (eds.) International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces 1993 January 4-7, 1993, Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 223-226. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/169891/p223-desmarais/p223-desmarais.pdf

Desmarais, Michel C., Pavel, Michael (1987): User Knowledge Evaluation: An Experiment with UNIX. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg, 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, Giroux, Luc (1987): The Diagnosis of User Strategies. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg, Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 185-189.

Plouznikoff, Alexandre, Plouznikoff, Nicolas, Robert, Jean-Marc, Desmarais, Michel C. (2006): Enhancing human-machine interactions: virtual interface alteration through wearable comput. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2006, . pp. 373-376. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124828

Plouznikoff, Nicolas, Plouznikoff, Alexandre, Desmarais, Michel C., Robert, Jean-Marc (2006): Support mobile à la tâche: médiation utilisateur - monde réel par l\'intermédiaire d\'un o. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Association Francophone dInteraction Homme-Machine , 2006, . pp. 107-114. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132736.1132750

Jodoin, André, L\'Archevêque, Régent, Allard, Pierre, Desmarais, Michel C., 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. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132736.1132789

Desmarais, Michel C. (2011): Performance Comparison of Item-to-Item Skills Models with the IRT Single Latent Trait Mode. In: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization , 2011, . pp. 75-86. https://www.springerlink.com/content/4W825L22Q40RH175

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