Charles Gouin-Vallerand (charles.gouin-vallerand@teluq.ca) hold a joint Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (France) and was member of the DOMUS Laboratory of the Université de Sherbrooke and Handicom Lab of Telecom SudParis. After his doctoral studies, he joined the Human Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (USA) as a postdoctoral research fellow. He is currently associated professor at the Science & Technology of the TELUQ University and he is the head of the Laboratory on Mobile Computing and Smart Cities (LIMVI).
His research interests are on the ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and human-computer interaction. More specifically, he works on the context-aware computing (context-aware application), services & assistances provision and smart spaces/smart cities.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellow at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon (USA) (2011-2012)
- Joint Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) (2008-2011)
- M. Sc. from Université de Sherbrooke (2006-2008)
- B. Sc. from Université de Sherbrooke (2002-2005)
Research Interests
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Context-aware computing
- Augmented reality
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Mobile Computing
Teaching
Research
- CRSNG -Collaborative Research and Development Grants : Système de réalité augmentée sensible au contexte pour l'assistance et la maintenance en milieux industriels. In collaboration with Black Artick inc. 94 000$ for 2017 to 2020;
- FRQ-NT -New university researchers start up : Système de recommendation sensible au contexte et aux humeurs des utilisateurs pour appareils mobiles dans les espaces intelligents. 40 000 $ for 2016 to 2018;
- CRSNG - Discovery: Modélisation et conception de l’assistance sensible au contexte auprès de personnes en perte d’autonomie dans le cadre d’espaces urbains intelligents. 75 000$ for 2014 to 2019;
- CRSNG - SEP : Micro-localisation intérieure d'équipements de type Internet des objets (IoT). In collaboration with Satori Inc. 25 000$ for 2017
- MITACS - Accelerate cluster : Développement de systèmes intelligents en sécurité routière. Co-researcher with Évelyne Vallières and Neila Mezghani. In collaboration with the Fondation CAA-Québec. 80 000$ for 2016-2017;
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FCI - Leaders fund : Laboratoire de recherche en Informatique Mobile et Villes Intelligentes (LIMVI). Pirncipal investigator. 887 125 $ for 2013 to 2017;
- MITACS - Accelerate cluster : A learning mobile application dedicated to provide education to children in developing countries. Co-researcher with Richard Hotte, Emmanuel Duplaa (UOttawa) and Mikael Gardoni (ETS). In collaboration with Datawind Canada. 200 000$ for 2015 to 2016;
- CRSNG - SEP :Le contournement des processus en centre d’appel comme source d’innovation de création de connaissance et de prise de décision stratégique. In collaboration with Universal Media Inc. 25 000$ for 2016
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CRSNG - SEP : Système d'interaction humain-machine basée sur la réalité augmentée sensible au contexte et aux profils des utilisateurs. In collaboration with Black Artick. 25 000$ for 2015.
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FRQNT- Regroupement stratégique INTER + UQ - FODAR : Recommandation et livraison de services d’assistance en mobilité dédiés aux personnes en perte d’autonomie, basés sur le contexte et le profil des utilisateurs. Principal investigator with Bruno Bouchard (UQAC), Abdenour Bouzouane (UQAC) and Sylvain Giroux (UdS),. 53 834$ for 2013 to 2016.
Publications & Presentations
This section shows the documents (if any) that are available in R-libre, TELUQ's open access research publication repository.
Journal articles (refereed)
Henni, Khadidja; Mezghani, Neila, & Gouin-Vallerand, Charles (2018). Unsupervised graph-based feature selection via subspace and pagerank centrality. Expert Systems with Applications, 114, 46-53. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.07.029
Henni, Khadidja; Mezghani, Neila; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Ruer, Perrine; Ouakrim, Youssef, & Vallières, Évelyne F. (2018). Feature selection for driving fatigue characterization and detection using visual- and signal-based sensors. Applied Informatics, 5 (7), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40535‑018‑0054‑9
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Gaboury, Sébastien; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Giroux, Sylvain, & Bouchard, Bruno (2017). Prediction of next destinations from irregular Patterns. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0519-z
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Bouchard, Bruno; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Giroux, Sylvain (2016). Energy Optimization for Outdoor Activity Recognition. Journal of Sensors. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6156914
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Roy, Patrice; Abdulrazak, Bessam; Giroux, Sylvain, & Dey, Anind K. (2013). Intelligible software delivery in smart environments supported by a macro and micro context awareness model. Health and Technology, 3 (2), 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-013-0047-6
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Abdulrazak, Bessam; Giroux, Sylvain, & Dey, Anind K. (2013). A Context-aware Service Provision System for Smart Environments Based on the User Interaction Modalities. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 5 (1), 47-64.
Book chapters
Bouchard, Kévin; Hao, Jianguo; Bouchard, Bruno; Gaboury, Sébastien; Tarik Moutacalli, Mohamed; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Kenfack Ngankam, Hubert; Pigot, Hélène, & Giroux, Sylvain (2018). The Cornerstones of Smart Home Research for Healthcare. In Giabbanelli, Philippe J.; Mago, Vijay K., & Papageorgiou, Elpiniki I. (Ed.), Advanced Data Analytics in Health (p. 185-200). Cham : Springer, coll. « Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies », vol. 93. ISBN 978-3-319-77911-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77911-9_11
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles (2017). Context-Aware Service Provision in Ambient Intelligence: a case study with the Tyche project. In Smart Technologies in Healthcare. CRC Press. ISBN 9781498722001
Papers in conference proceedings (refereed)
Brun, Damien; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & George, Sébastien (2019). Keycube is a Kind of Keyboard. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Glasgow, United Kingdom : Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN 978-1-4503-5971-9 https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313258
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Ferreira, Susan M., & Hotte, Richard (2018). Towards a mobile serious game environment for children self-learning. In Proceeding of 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GoodTechs'18). Bologna, Italy : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 978-1-4503-6581-9 https://doi.org/10.1145/3284869.3284901
Brun, Damien; Ruer, Perrine; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & George, Sébastien (2018). A Toolkit for Exploring Augmented Reality Through Construction with Children. In Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR 2018). Foz Do Iguaçu, Brésil : IEEE Digital Library.
Henni, Khadidja; Mezghani, Neila; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Ruer, Perrine, & Vallières, Évelyne F. (2018). Driving Fatigue Characterization using Feature Ranking. In 9th International Symposium on Signal, Image, Video and Communications (ISIVC) (p. 209-214). IEEE. ISBN 978-1-5386-8174-9 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIVC.2018.8709179
Brun, Damien; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & George, Sébastien (2017). Augmented human mind: Case of reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Maui, Hawaii : Association of Computing Machinery.
Hotte, Richard; Ferreira, Susan M.; Abdessettar, Saâd, & Gouin-Vallerand, Charles (2017). Digital Learning Game Scenario: A pedagogical Pattern applied to Serious Game Design. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2017). Porto, Portugal.
Brun, Damien; Ferreira, Susan; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & George, Sébastien (2016). CARTON Project: Do-It-Yourself Approach to Turn a Smartphone into a Smart Eyewear. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2016). Singapour : Association of Computing Machinery.
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Bouchard, Bruno; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Giroux, Sylvain (2016). Hybrid battery-friendly mobile solution for extracting users’ visited places. In Proceeding of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2016). Elsevier.
Ferreira, Susan; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Hotte, Richard (2016). Game based learning: a case study on designing an educational game for children in developing countries.. In Proceeding of 8th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, vol. 4, no 16. Barcelone, Espagne.
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Gaboury, Sébastien; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Giroux, Sylvain, & Bouchard, Bruno (2016). Battery-Aware Mobile Solution for Online Activity Recognition from Users’ Movements. In Proceeding of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2016). San Francisco : IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2016.16
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Bouchard, Bruno; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Giroux, Sylvain (2015). Online Prediction of People’s Next Point-of-Interest: Concept Drift Support. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 8) (p. 97-116). Springer, coll. « Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9277 ». ISBN 978-3-319-24194-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24195-1_8
Boukhechba, Mehdi; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Bouchard, Bruno; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Giroux, Sylvain (2015). Online recognition of people's activities from raw GPS data: semantic trajectory data analysis. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, (PETRAE 2015, Corfu, Greece, July 01 - 03). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2769493.2769498
Kedowide, Colombiano; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Vallières, Évelyne F. (2014). Recognizing blind spot check activity with car drivers based on decision tree classifiers. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14). Québec, Canada.
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & De La Cruz, J. Alberto-Montero (2013). Analysis of a Context-aware Recommender System Model for Smart Urban Environment. In Proceedings of the 1th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2013). New York, NY, USA : ACM.
Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & Mezghani, Neila (2014). An Analysis of the Transitions between Mobile Application Usages based on Markov Chains. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp'14) (p. 373-378). New York, NY, USA : ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641700
Ruer, Perrine; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Zhang, Le; Lemire, Daniel, & Vallières, Évelyne F. (2015). An analysis tool for the contextual information from field experiments on driving fatigue. In Proceeding of the Ninth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (Context 2015). Springer, coll. « LNAI ».
Vallières, Évelyne F.; Ruer, Perrine; Bergeron, Jacques; McDuff, Pierre; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Ait-Seddik, Karim, & Mezghani, Neila (2015). Perceived fatigue among aging drivers : an examination of the impact of age and duration of driving time on a simulator. In Proceedings of SOCIOINT15- 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (p. 314-320). ISBN 978-605-64453-3-0
Conference presentations (refereed)
Brun, Damien; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles, & George, Sébastien (May 2019). Toward Discreet Interactions and Publicly Explicit Activities. Paper presented at 1st Workshop on Challenges Using Head-Mounted Displays in Shared and Social Spaces, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Ruer, Perrine; Ferreira, Susan; Vallières, Évelyne F., & Gouin-Vallerand, Charles (May 2017). Designing a Mobile Application for Older Adults: A Case Study to improve Safe Driving. Paper presented at Workshop on Designing Mobile Interactions for the Aging Populations, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'17), Denver, USA.