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I am currently a user experience researcher at Microsoft, in the Developers Division, working on Help and Community. On this website, 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.

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.

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July 12th 2010: User Experience Researcher at Microsoft
As of today, I have started working as a full-time user experience researcher at Microsoft. I am looking forward to this change of pace in my life. And oh! Yes! I have also moved in a new home in Seattle!

June 29th 2010: Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs to be presented at VLHCC 2010
I collaborated with Todd Kulesza and folks at the Oregon State University on supporting a better interaction between humans and machine-learning programs by exposing some of the inner logic of the program as well as allowing more rich interactions between people and programs.

May 8th 2010: All is good
I have now been working at Microsoft for three months on MSDN. This is exciting and challenging work, and I have a even increased respect for the work of the user experience researchers in those companies. Academic researchers should do an internship on the product side more often.

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.

recent publications

Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret Burnett, Weng-Keen Wong, Yann Riche, Travis Moore, Ian Oberst, Amber Shinsel, Kevin McIntosh, to appear at VL-HCC 2010 (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing), 2010.
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.