Professor Noël Conruyt on Human Centered Design and Technology



University of Reunion Island
Biodiversity Informatics towards Horizon 2020

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Noël Conruyt is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the LIM Mathematics and Computer Science laboratory, Sciences and Technologies Faculty of Reunion University, Saint-Denis of La Réunion. Before joining Reunion University in 1994, he was a Ph.D. student at INRIA of Rocquencourt and University of Paris IX Dauphine, from where he also got my Ph.D. in Computer Science (Machine Learning and Symbolic-Numeric Data Analysis applied to the Knowledge Management of specialists in Biology). His research interests lie in Knowledge Engineering and Human Computer Interaction with an emphasis on co-design and social aspects of computing.

He is especially interested in user-centered approaches related to environmental management for sustainable development, in which biodiversity informatics is a central concern for better protection of our heritage: we only protect what we better know

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