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Welcome! Here, you will find information about my job as an academic researcher and as a user experience researcher and designer. You can check out the research section for details about my research projects, including my Ph.D. thesis (in English) and markerClock. You can also visit my publication section to know more about my published research work.

If you are interested in hiring me as a researcher or user experience consultant, you can look at my detailed resume and contact me at contact_at_yannriche.net (references upon request). I live in the Seattle area and I am always interested to hear about exciting, innovative projects that need a user-centered perspective. If you want to have a broad overview of my past projects, you can visit my portfolio section describing some of my work in user experience and human computer interaction in general. Finally, you can visit my photography website to see some of my work in this area.

news

February 10th 2010: Studying Always-On Electricity Feedback in the Home to be presented at CHI 2010
Some of my research started in 2008 after my graduation has been accepted for publication at CHI this year. I will be presenting a three steps tentative approach to always-on feedback in the Home, and results of a study exploring design aspects relevant to this issue.

February 8th 2010: Contract at Microsoft
As of today, I have started working as a user experience researcher vendor at Microsoft. The contract lasts until the end of June.

Januray 27th 2010: Hard-to-Use Interfaces Considered Beneficial (Some of the Time) accepted at alt.chi 2010
If you're planning to come to CHI, or if you read what comes out of it, this message is for you. The provocative piece written with collaborators at Microsoft Research, INRIA France, and Ecole Centrale Paris has been accepted at the alt.chi track of the CHI conference. It describes how in two instances, smoothing out interaction barriers in the design of interfaces could result in less interesting designs. We're looking forward to your comments on this issue!

January 25th 2010 OSU colloquium: Leveraging People's Intimacy with Data
Gave a talk at OSU discussing how in my work, I have tried to leverage people's intimacy with their own lives and situations when designing peer support communication devices and feedback systems.

recent publications

Hard-to-Use Interfaces Considered Beneficial (Some of the Time)
Yann Riche, Nathalie Riche, Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, to be presented at alt.chi at the CHI conference in Apr. 2010.
PeerCare: Supporting Awareness of Rhythms and Routines for Better Aging in Place
Yann Riche, Wendy Mackay, in the Springer Journal of Collaborative Computing 19(1), Feb. 2010.