Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

INRIA Associate Teams

• Equipe Associée Sirius (Principal Investigators: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Wendy Mackay): Joint lab between In Situ, the HCI Group at Stanford University and the Distributed Cognition and HCI Lab at University of California, San Diego. Wendy Mackay and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon are spending a sabbatical year, that began in September 2010, at Stanford University, with visits to UC San Diego. SIRIUS will continue this collaboration when they are back in France.

INRIA International Partners

• ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, http://www.almaobservatory.org/ ) (Principal Investigator: Emmanuel Pietriga): Collaboration over 4 years with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)/NSF to redesign graphical user interfaces of the observatory's operations monitoring and control software, based on state-of-the-art visualisation and interaction techniques. The project is partly be implemented using In Situ's ZVTM toolkit (see Section 5.2 ).