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I am currently a user experience researcher at Google. On this website, you will find information about my job as an academic researcher and as a user experience researcher and designer. You can check out the research section for details about my research projects, including my Ph.D. thesis (in English) and markerClock. You can also visit my publication section to know more about my published research work.

I live in the Seattle area and I am always interested to hear about exciting, innovative projects that need a user-centered perspective. If you want to have a broad overview of my past projects, you can visit my portfolio section describing some of my work in user experience and human computer interaction in general. Finally, you can visit my photography gallery to see some of my work.

news

January 6th 2015: Joined Zillow!
I just joined an awesome company called Zillow which helps people find homes to buy, or sell their homes. I look forward to working on the leading Internet real estate company in the US.

January 22nd 2013: Happy New Year!
This new year, I will apply myself to become a father (anytime soon). I am very excited about this prospect and I look forward to the challenge! I wish you all a happy new year and I hope it brings you both joy and fulfillment.

January 11th 2013: New team!
I am now working full time as a researcher on the Surface team, looking at current and future hardware consumer products.

recent publications

Supporting Developers' Coordination in the IDE Anja Guzzy, Alberto Bacchelli, Yann Riche, Aarie van Deursen in the Proceedings of CSCW 2015 (ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work), 2015.

LinkWave: a visual adjacency list for dynamic weighted networks Nathalie Riche-Henry, Yann Riche, Nicolas Roussel, Sheelagh Carpendale, Tara Madhyastha, Thomas J Grabowski, in the Proceedings of the IHM 2014 (26 Conference Francophone sur L'interaction Homme Machine), 2014.

Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret Burnett, Weng-Keen Wong, Yann Riche, Travis Moore, Ian Oberst, Amber Shinsel, Kevin McIntosh, to appear at VL-HCC 2010 (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing), 2010.


Hard-to-Use Interfaces Considered Beneficial (Some of the Time)
Yann Riche, Nathalie Riche, Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, to be presented at alt.chi at the CHI conference in Apr. 2010.

PeerCare: Supporting Awareness of Rhythms and Routines for Better Aging in Place
Yann Riche, Wendy Mackay, in the Springer Journal of Collaborative Computing 19(1), Feb. 2010.