Charles Gouin-Vallerand

Financement

• Subvention. Telemonitoring of activities of daily living in home care services of older adults with cognitive deficits: a large-scale action design research study. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 1 101 600 $. (2024-2028).
  Numéro de subvention : 202403PJT. Voir plus
• Subvention. Spatio-temporal reasoning in mixed reality with a hybrid approach to support scalability and development of virtuality-reality continnum software. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 37 500 $. (2022-2023).
  Numéro de subvention : 577627-2022. Voir plus
• Subvention. Context-aware systems for assisting users in their activities of daily living : from activity recognition to augmented reality assistance provision. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 115 000 $. (2019-2024).
• Subvention. Système de réalité augmentée sensible au contexte pour l'assistance à la maintenance en milieux industriels. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 20 880 $. (2017-2018).
  Numéro de subvention : 618809. Voir plus
• Subvention. Système de recommendation sensible au contexte et aux humeurs des utilisateurs pour appareils mobiles dans les espaces intelligents. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 25 400 $. (2016-2017).
  Numéro de subvention : 198030. Voir plus
• Subvention. Micro-localisation intérieure d'équipements de type Internet des objets (IoT). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 25 000 $. (2016-2017).
  Numéro de subvention : 609493. Voir plus
• Subvention. Le contournement des processus en centre d'appel comme source d'innovation, de création de connaissance et de prise de décision stratégique. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 25 000 $. (2015-2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 586387. Voir plus
• Subvention. Système d'interaction humain-machine basée sur la réalité augmentée sensible au contexte et aux profils des utilisateurs. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 25 000 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 477369-2014. Voir plus
• Subvention. Système d'interaction humain-machine basée sur la réalité augmentée sensible au contexte et aux profils des utilisateurs. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 25 000 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 565755. Voir plus
• Subvention. Modélisation et conception de l'assistance sensible au contexte auprès de personnes en perte d'autonomie dans le cadre d'espaces urbains intelligents. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 60 000 $. (2014-2018).
  Numéro de subvention : 634398. Voir plus
• Subvention. Laboratoire de recherche en Informatique Mobile et Villes Intelligentes (LIMVI). Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 329 769 $. (2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 31932. Voir plus
• Subvention. Laboratoire de recherche en Informatique Mobile et Villes Intelligentes (LIMVI). Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 329 769 $. (2013).
  Numéro de subvention : CFI8971. Voir plus
• Subvention. Description formelle et implémentation d'une architecture sensible au contexte supportant l'assistance auprès de personnes dépendantes dans le cadre d'espaces intelligents ouverts. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 15 000 $. (2012-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 177667. Voir plus
• Subvention. Description formelle et implémentation d'une architecture sensible au contexte supportant l'assistance auprès de personnes dépendantes dans le cadre d'espaces intelligents ouverts. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 20 391 $. (2011-2012).
  Numéro de subvention : 147263. Voir plus
• Subvention. Gestion autonome et auto-organisation des logiciels dans les espaces intelligents. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 20 000 $. (2008-2010).
  Numéro de subvention : 125892. Voir plus

Publications

Articles

• Damien Brun, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Sébastien George. (2025). Design and evaluation of a versatile text input device for virtual and immersive workspaces. Human–Computer Interaction. DOI
• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2024). Enhancing Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes with Self-Supervised Learning and Self-Attention. Sensors. DOI
• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2024). Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Review. IEEE Access. DOI
• Amel Yaddaden, Guillaume Spalla, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Patricia Briskie-Semeniuk, Nathalie Bier. (2022). A Mixed Reality Cognitive Orthosis to Support Older Adults in Achieving Their Daily Living Activities: Focus Group Study With Clinical Experts. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. DOI
• Rani Baghezza, Kevin Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane, Charles Gouin-Vallerand. (2022). Profile Recognition for Accessibility and Inclusivity in Smart Cities Using a Thermal Imaging Sensor in an Embedded System. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. DOI
• (2018). Unsupervised graph-based feature selection via subspace and pagerank centrality. Expert Systems with Applications.
• (2017). A mobile platform for controlling and interacting with a Do-It-Yourself Smart Eyewear. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications.
• (2017). A novel Bluetooth low energy based system for spatial exploration in smart cities. Expert Systems with Applications.
• (2017). Designing a Mobile Application for Older Adults: A Case Study to improve Safe Driving.
• (2017). Prediction of next destinations from irregular patterns. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.
• (2016). Energy optimization for outdoor activity recognition. Journal of Sensors.
• (2016). Hybrid battery-friendly mobile solution for extracting users’ visited places. Procedia Computer Science.
• (2014). La prévention de la fatigue au volant chez les conducteurs ̂agés.
• (2013). A context-aware service provision system for smart environments based on the user interaction modalities. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments.
• (2013). Intelligible software delivery in smart environments supported by a macro and micro context awareness model. Health and Technology.
• (2011). Micro Context-Awareness for Autonomic Pervasive Computing. Web-Based Multimedia Advancements in Data Communications and Networking Technologies.
• (2010). A standard ontology for smart spaces. International Journal of Web and Grid Services.
• (2009). A self-configuration middleware for smart spaces. Internationa Journal of Smart Homes.
• (2008). A pervasive framework for multi-agent personalization in smart homes.
• Figueiredo, Lucas 176 Formico Rodrigues, Maria Andréia 18 Freire, João 157 Freitas, Luiz Felipe dos Santos 65.
• Online Prediction of People’s Next Point-of-Interest: Concept Drift Support.

Chapitres de livre

• Richard Nguyen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand. (2026). Co-designing Context-Aware Gestures for Hand-Held Cooking Tools in Mixed Reality. DOI
• Guillaume Spalla, Louis Marquet, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Nathalie Bier. (2025). A Mixed Reality Graded Cueing Model to Support the Activities of Daily Living. DOI
• Kokou Abalo, Guillaume Spalla, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Lionel Guillaume. (2025). Toward Context Awareness in Mixed Reality: Supporting Spatial Reasoning with Object Detection and Ontologies. DOI
• (2018). The Cornerstones of Smart Home Research for Healthcare. Advanced Data Analytics in Health.
• (2017). Context-Aware Service Provision in Ambient Intelligence: a case study with the Tyche project. Smart Technologies in Healthcare.

Articles de conférence

• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Maxime Lussier, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2024). Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning for Recognizing Human Activity in Older Adults through Labeling Applications in Real-World Smart Homes. DOI
• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2023). Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Human Activity Recognition with Ambient Sensors. DOI
• (2019). An indoor navigation platform for seeking Internet of Things devices in large indoor environment. Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good.
• (2019). Designing a Navigation System for Older Adults: A Case Study Under Real Road Condition. International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics.
• (2019). Intelligent Mobile-Based Recommender System Framework for Smart Freight Transport. Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good.
• (2019). Keycube is a Kind of Keyboard (k 3). Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
• (2018). A Toolkit for Exploring Augmented Reality Through Construction with Children.
• (2018). Driving Fatigue Characterization using Feature Ranking. 2018 9th International Symposium on Signal, Image, Video and Communications (ISIVC).
• (2018). Feature selection for driving fatigue characterization and detection using visual-and signal-based sensors. Applied Informatics.
• (2018). Towards a mobile serious game environment for children self-learning. Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good.
• (2017). Augmented human mind: case of reasoning. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
• (2017). Digital Learning Game Scenario: A pedagogical Pattern applied to Serious Game Design. 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2017).
• (2016). Battery-Aware Mobile Solution for Online Activity Recognition from Users' Movements. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS).
• (2016). CARTON project: do-it-yourself approach to turn a smartphone into a smart eyewear. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media.
• (2016). Game based learning: a case study on designing an educational game for children in developing countries. 2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES).
• (2016). Persuasive strategies to improve driving behaviour of elderly drivers by a feedback approach. International Conference on Persuasive Technology.
• (2015). An analysis tool for the contextual information from field experiments on driving fatigue. International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context.
• (2015). Intelligent Transportation System for fatigue: are they appropriate for older drivers? A short literature review. 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals.
• (2015). Online Prediction of People’s Next Point-of-Interest: Concept Drift Support. Human Behavior Understanding: 6th International Workshop, HBU 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 8, 2015, Proceedings.
• (2015). Online recognition of people's activities from raw GPS data: Semantic Trajectory Data Analysis. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.
• (2015). Perceived fatigue among aging drivers: an examination of the impact of age and duration of driving time on a simulator. 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOCIO-INT 2015).
• (2014). An analysis of the transitions between mobile application usages based on markov chains. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication.
• (2014). Recognizing blind spot check activity with car drivers based on decision tree classifier approach. Workshops at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• (2013). Analysis of a context-aware recommender system model for smart urban environment. Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia.
• (2012). A macro and micro context awareness model for the provision of services in smart spaces. International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics.
• (2012). Service delivery and provision in smart environment. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.
• (2012). Software provision in smart environment based on fuzzy logic intelligibility. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp'12).
• (2011). Tyche project: A context aware self-organization middleware for ubiquitous environment. 2011 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications.
• (2010). A software self-organizing middleware for smart spaces based on fuzzy logic. 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC).
• (2010). Macro and micro context-awareness for autonomic pervasive computing. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services.
• (2008). Toward a self-configuration middleware for smart spaces.
• (2008). Toward a self-configuration middleware for smart spaces. 2008 Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking.
• (2008). Toward autonomic pervasive computing. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services.
• (2008). Toward autonomic pervasive computing.
• (2007). Managing and deployment of applications with OSGi in the context of smart home. Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés à l'UdeS

• GIS806 - Création et gestion des entrepôts de données. (2024, 2026). (3CR).
• IFT715 - Interfaces personne-machine. (2024, 2026). (3CR).
• GCE841 - Test d'utilisabilité et plan d'implantation. (2023-2024). (3CR).
• IFT215 - Interfaces et multimédia. (2023-2024). (3CR).
• GTA621 - Expérience utilisateur en technologies d'affaires. (2023). (3CR).

Activités professionnelles

• Poste d'invité. Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. IRIT et IUT de Blagnac. Professeur invité. Toulouse, Occitanie, France. (2025).
• Poste d'invité. Le Mans Université. LIUM. Invited Professor. Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France. (2025).