Fabien Girardin is a Ph.D.
candidate in Computer Science and
Digital Communication in the
Interactive
Technologies Group (Department of Informmation and
Communication Technologies) at the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
in Barcelona, Spain. He is also affiliated with the
Senseable City Lab
(Department of Urban Studies and Planning) at the Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. His
current investigation explores the integration
of ubiquitous technologies in the everyday urban environments. More
specifically, he studies the design of location-aware applications that
take into account the limitations of technologies. Fabien holds an
engineering degree
in Computer Science from the Biel
School of Engineering and Information Technology (University
of Applied Sciences Bern),
Switzerland and a M.Phil. in Computer Science and Digitial
Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University. During his
studies, he
worked in the fields of
interoperability and security in distributed systems at
Borland Software Corp.
in San Mateo, CA, USA. After graduating, he joined
TECFA at the
University of Geneva to develop collaborative learning environments and
later the
CRAFT
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies, Lausanne (EPFL) to
design, implement, and study location-aware collaborative
applications. Subsequently, Fabien co-founded
Simpliquity, an
EPFL spin-off that offers user experience consultancy in the domain of
emerging technologies. [
More in
LinkedIn].
Selected
publications
Girardin, F., Vaccari, A., and Ratti, C. (2008). Towards quantifying
the presence of visitors from the mobile phone network activity they
generate. In
9th International Forum on Tourism Statistics, Paris, France
Girardin, F., Calabrese, F., Dal Fiore, F., Ratti, C., Blat, J. (2008).
Digital footprinting: uncovering the presence and movements of tourists
from user-generated content.
IEEE Pervasive Computing, In print.
Girardin, F., Fiore, F. D., Ratti, C., and Blat, J. (2008).
Leveraging explicitly disclosed location information to understand tourist dynamics: A case study.
Journal of Location-Based Services 2, 1, 41–54.
Girardin, F. (2007).
Bridging
the social-technical gap in location-aware computing. In
CHI ’07: CHI
’07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems,
pages 1653–1656, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.
Girardin, F. and Nova, N. (2006).
Getting
real with ubiquitous
computing: the impact of discrepancies
on collaboration.
e-Minds
International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction,
1(1):60–64.
Nova, N., Girardin, F., and Dillenbourg, P. (2006).
The
Underwhelming Effects of Location-Awareness on
Collaboration in
a Pervasive Game. In
International
Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems.
[
List of all
publications and projects]
Selected talks
From Sentient to Responsive Cities (
slides), Workshop on Intelligent Cities of the Next Generation, Barcelona, Spain, June 26, 2008
Nouvo interview (
video),
Lift Conference,
Geneva, Switzerland, February 7, 2008
Révéler le pouls de la ville (
slides),
Salon ‘Immo
TIC – Domo TIC AGORA, Sophia Antipolis, France, December 7,
2007
Mapping of city dynamics (
slides),
Mobile Monday Barcelona, Spain, December 3, 2007
The Design of Everyday
Pervasive
Things (
slides),
Picnic Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 29, 2007
Location-Aware Applications in the City (
slides),
MIT SENSEable City Lab, Boston, USA, May 23, 2007
Bridging the Social-Technical Gap in Location-Aware Computing (
slides),
Urban Mapping, San Francisco, USA, April 27, 2007.
Embracing
the Real World’s Messiness (
slides,
video),
Lift Conference,
Geneva, Switzerland, February 9, 2007
Teaching
Enginyeria
del Software II (2007)
Introducció
a l’enginyeria de software: Disseny
d’interfícies (2007)
Introducció
a l’enginyeria de software: Disseny
d’interfícies (2006)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology