Claude HENRY : Claude.Henry@limsi.fr Claude Henry is a CNRS Senior Research Engineeer, sociologist (sociology of technics), is currently responsible of the Socio-Economic Action on Interactive Communication, at LIMSI-CNRS, a multidisciplinary laboratory (computer sciences, linguistics, psychology) at Orsay, France, near Paris.
Since the beginning of 1995, he is member of the Multimodal Action Committee, at LIMSI, an interdisciplinary group on the modern evolution on the different aspects of man-system and computer-mediated communication. He has been responsible of an eighteen months analysis of the spreading of ICT in the french society, in seven different milieux (1996/1998). He was previously, from 1989 to 1994, civil servant in the French Ministry of Research and Technology, in charge, at the Department " Man, Work and Technologie, of an incitative program on connection between Society and Technologies. He was involved in heading animation of several research networks. He has been trained initialy in engineering.
Recent research Distributed collective practices in the society, multidisciplinary and participatoty design, professional and non-professional requirements to ICT, networks of innovative actors in the civil society.
Network & Affiliation He is engaged on european level research, in the Magic Lounge project, one of the I3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) network (LTR Esprit Program). He is active member of Vecam, a french association on Citizen Networking.
Recent Paper HENRY Claude, La communication interactive, Deuxièmes Journées " Recherche et Ergonomie ", Toulouse, fev 1998 HENRY Claude, La Communication Interactive. Vers une recherche stratégique, Actes du Colloque ERGO-IA, Biarritz, 1998 BOULLIER Dominique, HENRY Claude, Sociologists in design loop, I3Net Spring Days, Barcelone, 1999
Interest in Cost269 In such an active and large subject, the COST is a good opportunity to map the main rôles and possibilities of the European research on the real needs of ICTs in our modern societies.