Hélène Pigot co-founded the DOMUS laboratory in 2002 with Sylvain Giroux. Professor Pigot combines her knowledge in computer science and in occupational therapy to design and evaluate cognitive assistance. Participatory design is a way for Prof. Pigot to harvest the wishes and needs of individuals and their caregivers to support them to stay in their home. She is therefore interested in design approaches, including description of persona, design of distributed interfaces, tangible interfaces and interface learning. She previously taught speech recognition at the Université de Sherbrooke and occupational therapy in gerontology at the École de réadaptation of the Université de Montréal. She is an active member of the Research on Aging Centre of the CIUSS-Sherbrooke and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of the Greater Montreal.

My research focuses on cognitive assistance in intelligent housing to support home support. I rely on the domains of human machine interfaces and diffuse computing. My research is interdisciplinary and emphasizes participatory design to ensure a meaningful and enjoyable cognitive assistance for people and their caregivers.

• H. Pigot, S. Giroux (2015). Living Lab for Designin Assistive technologies. IEEE 17th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services. 1st Workshop on the Living Lab Approach for successful Design of Service and systems in eHealth  (Living Lab'15). Boston. 2015-10-23

This article presents the laboratory DOMUS co directed and created by Sylvain Giroux and myself since 2002. It traces the numerous past and current research that have been carried out in a spirit of Living Lab and gives a report on the various approaches put in place.

• Groussard P.Y., Pigot, H., Giroux S. (2015). From Conception to Evaluation of Mobile Services for People with Head Injury: A Participatory Design Perspective. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 1-22

This article presents a co-design research in which people with head trauma and their caregivers participated in design groups of an application offering calendar and budget management. An evaluation at home showed the benefits of this application.

•  Imbeault H., Gagnon L., Pigot H., Giroux S., Marcotte N, * Cribier-Delande P., Duval J. , Bocti C., Lacombe G., Fülöp T. , Bier N. (2016) Impact of AP@LZ in the daily life of three persons with Alzheimer’s disease: long-term use and further exploration of its effectiveness, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation – 1-24.

This article presents a research on the effects of a timetable application specifically designed for people with Alzheimer's. It follows a research in co-design with computer scientists and a neuropsychologist and shows the need to associate an appropriate method of learning to people with Alzheimer's to integrate in their daily life this alternative to the maintenance at home.

• Chikhaoui B., Wang, S. Pigot, H., (2012) ADR-SPDLA : Activity discovery and recognition by combining sequential patterns and latent Dirichlet allocation. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 8(6). p 845-862. DOI:10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.08.004

This paper presents a method for recognizing activities with unsupervised learning that takes into account the temporal characteristics of an activity.

• *Loued W. B., H. Pigot (2016) Emotional Virtual Agent to Improve Aging in Place with Technology. DH'16. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Health- - Montréal, Canada. 11-13 april 2016. pp 169-170. 27% acceptation.

This article presents the methodology for the integration of a useful, emotional virtual agent in the Amelis interactive calendar conceived in co-conception with 35 elderly Quebecers and French people. The emotional model is based on the Big Five theory of personality and is inspired by the SIMPLEX model.

For more of Hélène Pigot's publications, please visit the Expertus site of the Université de Sherbrooke.