Aurélien Bénel – Software for human sense-making

Assistant professor, Computer science, Troyes university of technology (LIST3N lab, Tech-CICO team)

Teaching

• Software and Information Systems Engineering (Engineering school, Bachelor level)
  • Information system analysis (IF14)
• Supporting Digital Transformation (Engineering school, Master level)
  • Document systems design (IF09)
• Innovating through Software (Engineering school, Master level)
  • Service-oriented architectures (LO10) – REST APIs
  • Agile methods for software quality (IF05)
• Socio-technical Systems (Doctorate level)
  • Research methods and tools (BSST1) – Epistemology

Research

Topic: Software technologies for intellectual work instrumentation

Experimentation fields

• Archaeology at the French School in Athens and Toulouse II University,
• Sociology at Liège University,
• Translation at ENS Lyon, Korea University and University of Brasilia,
• Corporate knowledge management at ABB, EDF, ANDRA...

Research outputs

Open-source software, maintained as part of the Hypertopic suite: 

• Participative and debate plarforms:
  • for describing and cataloguing: Porphyry (documentation, sources),
  • for annotation and categorisation of text fragments: LaSuli (documentation, sources),
  • for translation: TraduXio (documentation, sources) ;
• Software infrastructure:
  • for picture corpora management: Steatite (documentation, sources),
  • for contradictory\complementary categories management: Argos (sources) and Hypertopic/lib-node (sources),
  • for requests authentification, authorization and accounting: AAAforREST (sources).

Scientific communities (as a reviewer)

• Digital humanities,
• Digital document,
• Knowledge engineering,
• Artificial intelligence,
• Computer-supported cooperative work,
• Computer-Human Interaction.