Catherine Letondal

Research

• I'm a researcher in the Laboratoire d'Informatique Interactive at ENAC.
• Current project:
  • Medusa: advanced interactions modelling and rapid GUI prototyping based on model transformation.
• Current keywords: Interactive software engineering, Participatory Design, Paper Computing.
• Past keywords: End-User Programming, Participatory Programming, Temporal data, Design for Creativity (modern music, ...), HCI issues in the field of Bioinformatics.
• Papers:
  • Christophe Hurter, Rémi Lesbordes, Catherine Letondal, Jean-Luc Vinot, Stéphane Conversy. Strip'TIC: Exploring Automatic Paper Strip for Air Traffic Controllers Conference Proceedings of AVI'12, Advanced Visual Interfaces ACM Press, 2012. (to appear).
  • Christophe Hurter, Paul Edouard, Vincent Gaits, Hasna Nadfaoui, Jérôme Pailler, Catherine Letondal, Stéphane Conversy. Etude exploratoire du stylo électronique pour le Contrôle Aérien, Actes de la 23ème Conférence Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM 2011) ACM Press, 2009 (to appear).
  • Catherine Letondal, Stéphane Chatty, Greg Phillips, Fabien André, Stéphane Conversy. Usability requirements for interaction-oriented development tools. Proceedings of the PPIG 2010 Workshop on the Psychology of Programming.
  • C. Letondal, W. E. Mackay. L'écriture augmentée : enregistrer des explorations interactives avec une feuille de données scientifiques, IHM'09, Grenoble (2ème prix des démonstrations).
  • Mobyle: a new full web bioinformatics framework, Bertrand Néron, Hervé Ménager, Corinne Maufrais, Nicolas Joly, Julien Maupetit, Sébastien Letort, Sébastien Carrere, Pierre Tuffery and Catherine Letondal. Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, Advance Access August 17, 2009.
  • Genoscape: a Cytoscape plug-in to automate the retrieval and integration of gene expression data and molecular networks, Mathieu Clément-Ziza, Christophe Malabat, Christian Weber, Ivan Moszer, Tero Aittokallio, Catherine Letondal and Sandrine Rousseau, Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, Advance Access published online on August 3, 2009.
  • F. Tsandilas, C. Letondal and W. Mackay. Musink: Composing Music through Augmented Drawing. CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, April 2009. ACM Press, 10 pages (best paper award).
  • M. Wessner, M. Senger, F. Samson, P. Picouet, F. Moreews, H. Ménager, V. Martin, S. Letort, C. Letondal, M. Hoebeke, J. Gouzy, J.-F. Gibrat, E. Corre, O. Collin, S. Carrere, C. Caron, P. Tufféry, B. Néron. (2008) BioWorkFlow: Web Services toolkit and workflow applications evaluation to deploy a confidence network, in: Jobim (Journées Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques)
  • C. Letondal, W. E. Mackay, N. Donin (2007), Paperoles et musique, IHM 2007.
  • Letondal, C. and Mackay, W. (2007) The Paperoles Project: An analysis of paper use by music composers. In Proceedings of CoPADD, Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, London, U.K.
  • A. Tabard, W. Mackay, N. Roussel and C. Letondal. PageLinker: integrating contextual bookmarks into a browser. In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, April 2007. ACM Press. 10 pages.
  • C. Letondal (2005). Participatory Programming: Developing programmable bioinformatics tools for end-users. In H. Lieberman, F. Paterno, & V. Wulf (Eds.), End-User Development. Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • C. Letondal and W. E. Mackay (2004), Participatory Programming and the Scope of Mutual Responsibility: Balancing scientific, design and software commitment, in Proceedings of PDC 2004 (Participatory Design Conference), July 27 -31, 2004 - Toronto, Canada.
  • M.F. Costabile and D. Fogli and C. Letondal and P. Mussio and A. Piccinno (2003), Domain-Expert Users and their Needs of Software Development, in Proceedings of the HCI 2003 End User Development Session.
  • Wendy E. Mackay, Guillaume Pothier, Catherine Letondal, Kaare Bøegh, Hans Erik Sørensen (2002), The missing link: augmenting biology laboratory notebooks, Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST 2002), Paris, France.
  • C. Letondal (2001), A Web interface generator for molecular biology programs in Unix, Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, 17(1), 2001, pp 73-82.
  • C. Letondal (1999), Une approche pragmatique de la programmation pour des biologistes qui programment presque, Actes Onzième conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme Machine, IHM'99, Montpellier (France), Nov. 1999, tome II, pp 5-8 (PS, english version for a workshop at CHI'99).
  • C. Letondal. Observation et mise au point d'applications parallèles, mémoire d'ingénieur CNAM. 1992. 172 p.
• Workshops positions papers and posters:
  • C. Letondal and A. Tabard, Temporal Data and Data Temporality: Time is change, not only order. Position paper for CHI 2009 workshop Interacting with temporal data.
  • N. Roussel, A. Tabard and C. Letondal. All you need is log. In WWW 2006 Workshop on Logging Traces of Web Activity: The Mechanics of Data Collection, May 2006. 4 pages.
  • B. Neron, P. Tuffery, C. Letondal (2005) Mobyle: a Web portal framework for bioinformatics analyses, poster presented at NETTAB 2005.
  • C. Letondal (2005) Software Design and Programming with Scientific Users, presented at ALPIS 2005 (Univ. of Trento).
  • C. Letondal, O. Amanatian Participatory Design of Pipeline tools and Web services in bioinformatics, at Requirements Capture for Collaboration in eScience Workshop, January 2004, NESC (slides).
  • C. Letondal Should we Lower the Need for Tailoring or Increase the Tailoring Space? A Design Approach to EUD, at EUD symposium workshop on Human-Computer Interaction in EUD, October 7, 2003.
  • C. Letondal, Uwe Zdun, Anticipating Scientific Software Evolution as a Combined Technological and Design Approach, at USE03 (Second International Workshop on Unanticipated Software Evolution) (slides).
• Technical Reports and presentations:
  • C. Letondal, A. Tabard, W.E. Mackay Quand tu l'as écrit, tu l'as lu ! LRI research report 1526, september 2009.
  • Présentation : Données temporelles : qu'est-ce qui est temporel dans les données ? Qu'est-ce qui est donné dans le temporel ? (8/7/2008 seminar on temporal data) [in french]
  • GRID concepts for Mobyle: presentation for the BioWorkFlow project [in french], October, 16th 2007.
  • Tests d'interface homme--ordinateur avec le BioNetbook, August 2000.
  • Participatory design workshops with biologists (paper in the B6 bulletin [in french]), June 1999.
  • Survey on the users of the computing resources at the Pasteur Institute [in french], May 1996.
• Other activities:
  • Reviewing:
    • Bioinformatics
    • Applied Bioinformatics
    • BioTechniques
    • UIST 2004, 2005, 2009
    • CHI 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 , 2011, 2012
    • CSCW 2008, 2011
    • The CSCW journal
    • IEEE Software
    • Bentham Science Publishers
    • Behaviour and Information Technology (2010, 2011)
    • Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
    • EICS 2011
  • Committees:
    • ECSCW 2005 Poster Chair
    • NETTAB 2005 Scientific Comittee
    • BNCODvis 2007 Programme Committee
    • CHI 2009 subcommittee on Specific Application Areas
    • EUD (End User Development Symposium) 2009
    • IS-EUD 2011
    • COOP 2010, 2012
  • Associations:
    • SFBI (Société Francaise de Bioinformatique)
    • AFIHM (Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine)
• I did my PhD at LRI, with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon on end-user programming.

Software

• i-star: : a multi-language distributed interaction engine.
• Mobyle: a web framework for bioinformatics analyses.
• biok: Biology Interactive Objects Kit.
• Pise, a user interface generator for Unix bioinformatics software tools.

Teaching

• Object-oriented analysis and design at ENAC
• From 2003 to 2008, I have been responsible of a Course in informatics for biology.
• Python programming (2003-2008).
• Web programming (2003-2005).
• Ada, Scheme programming (1994-1995)
• Bioinformatics (1994-1997)
• CNAM: data structures and algorithms, network programming (TP) (1994-1995).
• Online tutorials:
  • Python/Biopython Course.
  • bioperl course (outdated).

Others

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