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Hello, this homepage is dedicated to Yves Grassioulet's research, news and work collected during and after the completion of his MSc in Educational Technologies at TECFA (University of Geneva, Switzerland). He previously completed his MSc in Psychology back in 2000.


Areas of strength
  • Ergonomics / Human Factors
  • Software Design Analysis
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Computer Based Learning

 

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News

  • Since March 2004 .:
    Part time student in the Minor in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (MTE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). This program aims at bridging the gap betweeen engineering and economics, by offering engineers higher education in Finance, Management and Entrepreneurship >>

  • Since February 2004 .:
    Part time position as researcher at the Occupational Health Sciences Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland). The IST is a private institution funded by the States of Vaud and Geneva, which is fully dedicated to teaching, research, services and promotion of Health and Safety at Work.
    The main part of my activities consists on supervising and organizing the Master of Advanced Studies in Health at Work >>

  • January 2004 .:
    My MSc thesis 'A Cognitive Ergonomics Approach to the Process of Game Design and Development' is now available online:

    [Full Version, 139 p - 3'240 Ko]

  • December 2003 .:
    With the help of Weblogger.ch, a brand new blog on gamers and usability apps in digital gaming has been launched >> [the blog has been shut down, a broader and new version will be online by September 2005]

  • November 2003 .:
    Poster [433 Ko] at the 1st Level Up Games Conference in Utrecht (The Netherlands) >>

  • August 2003 .:
    Speaker [1.10 Mo] at the XVth Triennal Congress of the International Association of Ergonomics in Seoul (South Korea) >>

  • June 2003 .:
    Seminar at the HCI unit from the Swiss Institue of Technology (EPFL). The presentation was focusing on ergonomics issues applied to computer games design and development >>

  • May 2003 .:
    You Need Web Design Connections in Switzerland? Check this out >>


  • April-September 2003 .:
    New Entrepreneurs in Technology and Science Prize Finalist :: NETS 2003. The Gebert Rüf Foundation annually offers the NETS entrepreneurship program. This year, 16 selected young entrepreneurial scientists from Swiss Institutions of higher learning were selected.

  • January 2003 .:
    Freelance usability consultant :: after nearly one year of practice in applying HCI findings on Web design, I decided to quit Scalena in order to concentrate on new opportunities. Current focuses of interest are entrepreneurship and interactive entertainment.

  • November 2002 .:
    Full time position as a Usability Engineer in one of the Web agencies located in the heart of Geneva: Scalena SA >>

  • 25th to 27th of October 2002 .:
    Speaker at the International Conference Challenge of Computer Games in Lodz (Poland) >>

  • October 2002 .:
    MSc in Educational Technologies at TECFA, University of Geneva >>

  • September-February 2002/03 .:
    CREATE Entrepreneurship Course >>

  • January-May 2002 .:
    3 month Internship as a Usability Engineer at SQLI Group >>


Updated June 2005


"[...] what good is the technology if it is too complex to use? [...] Whenever the number of functions and required operations exceeds the number of controls, the design becomes arbitry, unnatural, and complicated. The same technology that simplifies life by providing more functions in each device also complicates life by making the device harder to learn, harder to use. This is the paradox of technology."

Donald A. Norman - The Design of Everyday Things, 1988 (pp. 30-31)

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