Fabien Girardin - Publications

Journal Papers and thesis

Girardin, F., Dal Fiore, F., Ratti, C., and Blat, J. (2008). Leveraging explicitly disclosed location information to understand tourist dynamics: A case study. Journal of Location-Based Services, In revision.

Girardin, F. (2007). Towards reducing the social-technical gap in location-aware computing. Master of Philosophy thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

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.

International Conferences

Girardin, F., Fiore, F. D., Blat, J., and Ratti, C. (2007). Understanding of tourist dynamics from explicitly disclosed location information. In 4th International Symposium on LBS and Telecartography, Hong-Kong, China.

Girardin, F. and Blat, J. (2007). Place this photo on a map: A study of explicit disclosure of location information. Late Breaking Result at Ubicomp 2007.

Girardin, F. (2007). Bridging the social-technical gap in location-aware computing, Doctoral Colloquium at Pervasive 2007, Toronto, Canada.

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., Nova, N., Blat, J. (2006). Towards Design Strategies to Deal with Spatial Uncertainty in Location-Aware Systems, Poster at Ubicomp 2006, Orange County, CA. USA.

Nova, N., Girardin, F., Dillenbourg, P. (2006). Investigating How Automatic Disclosure of Partners Location Influences Mobile Coordination, Poster at Ubicomp 2006, Orange County, CA, USA.

Nova, N., Girardin, F., Molinari, G. & Dillenbourg, P. (2006). The Underwhelming Effects of Location-Awareness on Collaboration in a Pervasive Game, International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, May 9-12, 2006, Carry-le-Rouet, Provence, France.

Nova, N., Girardin, F., and Dillenbourg, P. (2005).  ‘Location is not enough!’: an Empirical Study of Location-Awareness in Mobile Collaboration. In third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, pages 21–28

Nova, N., Girardin, F. & Dillenbourg, P. (2005). Etude empirique de l'utilisation de la géolocalisation en collaboration mobile. Short Paper for IHM 2005, Toulouse, France.

Nova, N., Girardin, F. & Dillenbourg, P. (2005). A Mobile Game to Explore the Use of Location Awareness on Collaboration. Poster for HCI International 2005, Las Vegas, USA

Schneider, D., Synteta, P., Frété, C., Girardin, F,. Morand, S. (2003). Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portal sites: clear focus and fuzzy edges. ICOOL International Conference on Open and Online Learning, December 7-13, 2003, University of Mauritius

Schneider, D., Class, B., Frété, C,. Girardin, F., Lombard, F., Morand, S., Synteta, P. (2003): Conception et implementation de scenarios pedagogiques riches avec des portails communautairesSecond colloque de Guéret, 4-6 juin 2003, “Les communautés virtuelles éducatives, Pour quelle éducation? Pour quelle(s) culture(s) ?” 

Workshops with selection

Cherubini, M., Hong, F., Dillenbourg, P., and Girardin, F. (2007). Ubiquitous collaborative annotations of mobile maps: how and why people might want to share geographical notes. In 9th International Workshop on Col laborative Editing Systems (IWCES’07), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, November 4 2007.

Girardin, F., Moghnieh, A., Blat, J. (2007). Towards a practitioner-centered approach to the design of elearning competence editors. TENCompetence Open Workshop on Current research on IMS Learning Design and Lifelong Competence Development Infrastructures, June 21-22, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.

Girardin, F., Blackstock, M., Dillenbourg, P., Finke, M., Jeffrey, P., Nova, N. (2007). Issues from Deploying a Pervasive Game on Multiple Sites, Common Models and Patterns for Pervasive Computing Workshop, May 13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.

Girardin, F., Boursinou, E., Moghnieh, A. (2007). “Convince Woody”, a serious game on competence development in a distributed collaborative environment, 2nd TenCompetence Workshop on Service Oriented Approaches and Lifelong Competence Development Infrastructures, January 11-12, 2007, Manchester, UK. 

Nova, N. & Girardin, F. (2005). Analyzing the Impacts of Location Awareness in Mobile Collaboration. Presentation for CAIF Workshop, Chateau D’Oex, Switerzland

Nova, N. & Girardin, F. (2004). Analysis of a Location-Based Multi-Player Game. Position paper for “Games and Social Networks: A Workshop on Multiplayer Games”, 6th September University of Leeds, UK, British HCI conference.

Books, Chapters in Books, Magazines and Others Non-scientific Publications

Girardin, F (2008). “Rendre public le pouls de la ville”, in “Les Audience de la Ville”, Cahier de tendances, Jean-Claude Decaux, Neuilly-sur-Seine, p.25

Nova, N. and Girardin, F. (2008): Sliding Friction: The Harmonious Jungle of Contemporary Cities. Walabab.

Nova, N. and Girardin, F. (2007): CatchBob! A Collaborative Treasure Hunt: Experimenting on Debord's Derive with Pervasive Computing. In on Borries, Friedrich, Walz, Steffen P., Brinkmann, Ulrich, and Matthias Bottger (eds.), Space Time Play. Games, Architecture, and Urbanism. 2007 Birkhäuser: Basel / Berlin / Boston.

Girardin, F., Blat, J., and Nova, N. (2007). Tracing the visitor’s eye: Using explicitly disclosed location information for urban analysis. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(3):55.

Girardin, F (2006). “Ubicity”, in “Mobilités, la clé des villes”, Cahier de tendances, Jean-Claude Decaux, Neuilly-sur-Seine, p.89

Nova, N., Girardin, F. & Dillenbourg, P. (2005): When Location Means More than Location.  GEO:connexion International Magazine, November Issue, 2005

Jermann,P. & Girardin F. (2004): Moodle, une plate-forme eLearning simple, flexible et conviviale Flash Informatique, EPFL.

Jermann,P. & Girardin F. (2004): Vers l’intégration des technologies dans l’enseignement. Flash Informatique, EPFL.

Jermann, P., Nova, N. & Girardin F. (2004): Blogs : scenarios academiques. Flash Informatique, EPFL.

Technical Reports

Nova, N., Girardin, F., and Dillenbourg, P. (2008). A descriptive framework to design for mutual location-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Technical report, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Cherubini, M., Dillenbourg, P., and Girardin, F. (2006). Effects of spatialized communication in tightly coupled work. Technical report, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Girardin, F. (2005): Building a mobile, locative, and collaborative application

Organized workshops

Girardin, F. (2008) Real-time Cities, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 14, 2008

Nova, N., Girardin, F., Bleecker, J. (2008) Ubiquitous computing: visions, failures and new interaction rituals, Lift Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2008

Main Recent and Current Projects

The Wireless City, Florence and Beyond (2007-Now): the project aims to fill the digital divide between served and underserved areas in the Province of Florence, and to build a platform for clean and sustainable regional development based on Information Technology.

Tracing the Visitor's Eye (2007-Now): a framework to evaluate the potential of using people-generated geotagged information to contribute urban understanding. A case study of how people explicitly position and disclose spatio-temporal information in order to understand their use and need of quality of location information in a urban space.

CatchBob! (2004-2006): experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity.

Stamps (2005-2006): experimental platform to study collaborative annotations of a map in a mobile setting.

ShoutSpace (2005-2006): experimental software platform for public authoring: a form of knowledge mapping and sharing. It allows users to annotate a map collaboratively with their friends, with the goal of sharing useful information about the city.

Portalvisualizer (2004): Data visualization tool that reveals the usage and activity thru time, tools and means of web community portal.