Jules Françoise
I am a CNRS Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at LISN (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay) within the AMI Team (Architectures and Models for Interaction). My research focuses on movement-based interaction, interactive machine learning and machine teaching, in the context of creative applications.
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2 papers & 1 poster at CHI'26
We are presenting 2 papers, co-authored with PhD students Léo Chédin and Behnoosh Mohammadzadeh, as well as a poster on the LaboSignes projects.
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Behnoosh Mohammadzadeh's PhD defense
Behnoosh defended her PhD in computer science at Université Paris-Saclay, entitled "Construction of Model Behavior by Novices through Interaction with Machine Learning"
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Our ANR Project GestToSay was just accepted
This 4-year collaborative research project will focus on multimodal video-text analysis for the recognition and translation of French Sign Language.
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Théo Jourdan joined us as a Postdoc
Théo postdoc is funded by PEPR Ensemble (PC3), and will focus on collaborative training of neural sound synthesis models for musical performance.
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Victor Paredes's defense
Victor defended his PhD in computer science at Ircam on "Exploration in Movement-Sound Interactive Systems"
Watch the defense
_ About me
Research Interests
My research is organized around three main axes. First, I am interested in designing movement-based interactions (gestural or involving the whole body), with an emphasis the modeling of the expressive qualities of movement. Second, I am particularly interested in the sonification of movement, that is, using continuous auditory feedback to aid learning or personal expression in various contexts, especially artistic ones (dance and music). Finally, an increasing portion of my work concerns Human-centered AI, especially regarding the involvement of novices and end-users in AI development. My contributions include both empirical studies that aim to understand how novices interact with machine-learning systems and the development of architectures and tools that facilitate human-AI interaction.
Selected Funding
- GestToSay (Starting 2026): French research project (ANR-funded) on "Multimodal Video-text Analysis for Gesture Understanding".
- ELEMENT (2018-2022): French research project (ANR-funded) on "Enabling Learnability in Movement Interaction". 🔗 project website
- CO/DA (2018-2019): DIM RFSI Emerging Projects on live-coding for augmented dance
- movement.futures (2017); SSHRC Connection Grant
Teaching
I currently teach at Université Paris-Saclay within the Master's program in HCI.
- Since 2019: Interactive Machine Learning. An elective of the Master's program that dives into Human-AI interaction and interactive machine learning. See the class presentation for details. The class is taught together with Baptiste Caramiaux.
- 2019-2024: Serious Games. An elective of the Master's program focusing on the design and evaluation of serious games to support learning. The class was taught together with Ouriel Grynszpan.
- Passed teaching experience includes Movement-based Interaction and Sonification (PostMaster AIMove at École des Mines), Web development (DUT & LP, IUT d'Orsay), programming and CS basics (Sorbonne Université).
Responsibilities
I am part of the MOCO Steering Committee, and I review for several national and international conferences in HCI and music computing. I am part of Université Paris-Saclay's Research Ethics Committee. I coordinate the Arts-Sciences transversal action at LISN.
Contact
Address: Campus Universitaire bât.507 - Rue du Belvédère 91405 - Orsay
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