Christophe Bortolaso - Interaction Designer - IRIT

CURRENT
POSITION
48, rue des Martyrs de la Libération 31400 Toulouse, France
christophe.bortolaso@gmail.com http://www.irit.fr/~Christophe.Bortolaso
+33.6.38.67.45.49 Language: French, English
Since 2009 Ph.D. student in computer science at University Toulouse III, IRIT Lab
Title: “A Creative Approach for Designing Mixed Interactive Systems”
Advisors: Emmanuel Dubois & Cédric Bach
Planned to be defended in Spring 2012.
Assistant Professor at University Toulouse III (ATER in French)
EDUCATION 2008 & 2009 2nd year Master (equivalent M.Sc.) in Human Computer Interaction
University of Toulouse III/ENAC (French National Aviation University)
with first class honors (Mention Tres Bien)
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
SPECIALTIES &
TECHNICAL
SKILLS
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2005 to 2007 Advanced Diploma & Bachelor Degree in Engineering Computer Systems
University Professional Institute, University Toulouse III
with upper second class honors (Mention Bien)
2002 to 2005 Associate Diploma in Computer Science (IUT in French), University Toulouse III
2002 Bachelor (Electrotechnic specialty)
with lower second class honors (Mention Assez Bien)
2008 Internship (5 months) at IRIT Lab as HCI Designer
Design and implementation of a mixed interactive system for the Natural History Museum of
Toulouse
2007 Internship (5 months) at IBM (Toulouse, research and development pole) as software
engineer
Extension of a reflexive introspection mechanism for C/C++ languages aimed at testing
embedded software
2006 Internship (4 months) at All Access Interactive (Web Agency, Toulouse) as developer
Design and implementation of a content management system for E-commerce websites
2005 Internship (2 months) at Xperts (Software publisher, Toulouse) as developer
Implementation of automatic updates components
2004 Internship (2 months) at Xperts (Software publisher, Toulouse) as developer
Implementation of an application aimed at sending of bank transactions
2002 to 2004 Several summer jobs for Atlantiques Automatismes Incendies (fire protection company)
Methodologies User Centered & participatory design, Agile programing, software modelization (UML),
Creative processes, ergonomics and user experience evaluation
Applications
type
Multitouch applications, Multimedia, Augmented Reality and Tangible interfaces, Embedded
software, Web
Technologies .NET, WPF, Windows Forms, TUIO, Ivy, Java Swing, 3D engines (Irrlicht, OpenGL), J2EE,
Databases (Oracle, MySQL), Various Sensors (Phidgets, Arduino, Video, Polhemus), …
Programming Event based programming, Object Oriented Programming, Threaded and parallel
programming: C, C++, C#, Java, Visual basic, HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5, JavaScript, SQL/PL SQL
Tools Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Enterprise Architect, SVN, …
PERSONNAL INTERESTS Rollerblading, Music, Science in general, watching series

TEACHING
2012 Dubois, E., Scapin, D., Charfi, S., & Bortolaso, C. (2012). Usability Recommendations
for Mixed Interactive Systems: extraction and integration in a design process. In T.
Huang, L. Alem, & M. Livingston (Eds.), Human factors in augmented reality
environments (Springer U., in press).
2011 Graham, T.C.N., Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., and Wolfe, C. Scenarchitectures: The Use
of Domain-Specific Architectures to Bridge Design and Implementation. Proceedings of
Interact’11, (2011), 341-358.
Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. MACS: combination of a formal mixed
interaction model with an informal creative session. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM
SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems, ACM New
York, NY, USA ©2011 (2011), 63-72.
Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., and Gauffre, G. Models Articulations for Ubiquitous System
Design. International workshop on Model-based Interactive Ubiquitous Systems
(MODIQUITOUS) at EICS’11, ACM (2011), in press.
Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. Co-Design of Interactive Museographic
Exhibits: the MIME case study. International conference on ReThinking Technology
in Museums: Emerging Experiences, University of Limerick (2011), 37-48.
2010 Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., Duranthon, F., and Blanquer-Maumont, A. Design
and Evaluation of Mixed Interactive Museographic Exhibits. International Journal of
Arts and Technology, Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented
Environments 3, 4 (2010).
Gauffre, G., Charfi, S., Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. Developing Mixed
Interactive Systems: A Model-Based Process for Generating and Managing Design
Solutions. In E. Dubois, P. Gray and L. Nigay, eds., The Engineering of Mixed Reality
Systems. Springer-Verlag London, 2010, 183-208.
2009 Bortolaso, C., Dubois, E., Bach, C., Nigay, L., and Coutrix, C. Conception de
systèmes interactifs mixtes: articulation d’une methode informelle et d'un modèle
d'interaction. Proceedings de la 21ème conference internationale d’Interaction
Homme Machine, ACM (2009), 293-302.
Bortolaso, C., Dubois, E., Dittlo, N., and de La Rivière, J.-B. 3D multitouch advanced
interaction techniques and applications. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ACM (2009), 1.
2008 Moussa, W.A., Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., Salembier, P., Jessel, J.-P., and Bach, C.
SIMBA: methodologie et plateforme de prototypage moyenne fidelite pour les systemes
interactifs mixtes. Ubiquite et Mobilite‚ (UBIMOB 2008), ACM (2008), 21-28.
Interactive Systems 2 nd year Master Multimodal Interaction 30 hours guided classes
1 st year Master Interaction Design & Participatory methods 14 hours lectures
1 st year Master Engineering interactive systems 50 hours guided classes
1 st year Master Task models based Engineering 8 hours lectures
Programming 3 rd year License Octave & Excel (numerical analyses) 110 hours guided classes
2 nd year License C/C++ Programming 42 hours guided classes
1 st year License CamL Programming 24 hours guided classes
Personal management 1 st year License Building a Personal & a Professional project 22 hours guided classes
PUBLICATIONS
= a total of 300 effective
hours of teaching at the
University of Toulouse
between 2008 and 2012

INTERNATIONAL
PROJECTS
NATIONAL
PROJECTS
COLLECTIVE
RESPONSIBILITIES
INTERNSHIP
MANAGEMENT
SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS INVOLVEMENT & RESPONSIBILITIES
2010 France/Canada Research Fund: “Supporting the Development of Collaborative Augmented Reality
Applications”
Collaboration between Queen’s University, Kingston-Canada & University Toulouse 3 (IRIT).
Personal implication � 3 weeks (July 2010) visit at EQUIS Lab for investigating collaborative tabletop
software design and development
2008-2011 Project ANR (French national research agency): “CARE : Cultural experience : Augmented Reality
and Emotion” (http://www.careproject.fr/)
Collaboration between Several Academic French labs (Grenoble, Paris, Biarritz, Toulouse, Troyes) and
Several companies (Immersion/Bordeaux), Metapages/Toulouse).
Personal implication � Active participation during the whole project (Research reports writing, several
scientific contributions, development of prototypes)
2007-2009 Project RRTT Midi-Pyrenees: Praxis-Environnement
Collaboration between IRIT Lab (Toulouse), Natural History Museum (Toulouse), Metapages company
(Toulouse), Troyes University (Troyes).
Personal implication � Active participation since 2008 (Design, implementation, evaluation of interactive
applications for the museum of Toulouse)
From 2008
to 2012
Conferences reviewing
EICS’12, TEI’12, CHI’12, EICS'11, CHI'11, IS-EUD'11, Interact'11, IHM'10, IHCI’09
Creator of DocToMe seminars
(monthly seminars in computer science from the doctoral graduate school MITT, University of Toulouse)
Member of program committee for UBIMOB’11
(Journeys of Mobility and Ubiquity – co-Chair of demos tracks)
Headman in charge of Ph.D. students for ELIPSE team at IRIT from 2009 to 2011
2011 Design and Implementation of a collaborative diagramming tool for tabletop surfaces
Co-directed with Nicholas T.C. Graham (Queens University, Kingston, Canada)
2010 Closing the loop in Remote Collaboration between a stationary expert and a mobile worker
performing physical tasks.
Co-directed with Emmanuel Dubois (IRIT, Toulouse) and Leila Alem (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sidney,
Australia)