FRANCK POIRIER
- Professor at université Bretagne-Sud (UBS) since 1995
- Lab-STICC laboratory (UMR 6285)
- City councillor at Vannes (Brittany)
Current responsibilities at UBS
- Head of the relocated master in computer science at ISGA (Morocco)
- Elected members of several university councils (UBS)
Past responsibilities at UBS
- Vice President of UBS in charge of Sustainable Development (2012 to 2014)
- Head of the Statisic & Computer Science Institute of UBS (1996 to 2000)
- Head of the Computer Science laboratory of UBS (2001 to 2004)
- Head of the research master in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) of UBS and Télécom Bretagne (2002 to 2010)
Carrière
- Sabbatical at Renault's Research Department (1993-1994)
- Associate professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (1988 to 1995)
- Associate professor at Université de Côte d’Ivoire (1987-1988)
- Assistant at Université Paris Sud 11 (1983 to 1986)
Educational background
- Computer Engineer from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (1992)
- Advanced degrees (DEA) in Computer Science from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (1992)
- PhD in Computer Science from Université Paris Sud 11 (1985)
- Habilitation thesis to supervise research (HDR) in Computer Science from Université Paris Sud 11 (1994)
Research domains
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
o modelling and design of interaction, tactile, gestural and bodily interaction
o text input and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC)
- Information Technology for Education (IT4E)
- 3 theses in progress
Publications
- Author or co-author of about 100 publications in national and international journals or conferences in HCI, text entry, IT for Education, Neural Networks and speech recognition since 1983
Coordonnées et identité numérique
- Adresse Lab-STICC - ENSIBS – BP 573 - 56017 Vannes Cedex
- Mél Franck.Poirier@univ-ubs.fr
- Toile https://sites.google.com/site/poirierubs
- Blog http://interactionblog.blogspot.com
- Twitter @efpi