About

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I'm Damien, an assistant professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), specialized in human-computer interaction for mobile and wearable technologies, augmented and virtual reality.

Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in cognitive computing and computer science (double degree program) under the supervision of Charles Gouin-Vallerand at TELUQ University (Montréal, Canada) and Sébastien George at Le Mans University (Laval, France). I received a scholarship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and from the company Ohrizon. Then, as a postdoctoral researcher, I joined the User Experience Research Group led by Professor Jonna Häkkilä from the University of Lapland (Faculty of Art and Design) in Finland.

Summer Schools

ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction, University of Cambridge (UK), 2018
Summer School on Reasoning, Cognitive Sciences Institute (Montreal), 2016

Program Committee

Augmented Humans 2023, 2022 and 2021

Reviewing

CHI 2023, AHs 2023, IMWUT 2022-08, AHs 2022, OzCHI 2021, DIS 2021, AHs 2021, CHI (Late-Breaking Work) 2021

Volunteering

SEDS Canada 2018-2020 (English-To-French translator), Montreal Maker Faire 2018, ICMI 2018 (student volunteer), CHI 2018 (student volunteer), CHI 2017 (student volunteer), Eureka! Science Festival 2016, WWW 2016 (student volunteer)

Anecdotally and paradoxically, despite having chosen the .run extension for obvious reason, it does not reflect my personality, I am advocating for a slow living style.