Fabien Girardin is a researcher and engineer at
Lift lab,
a research agency he co-founded. He is fascinated by the interplay
between urban infrastructures, ubiquitous technologies and people
practices. His research mixes qualitative observations with
quantitative data analysis to gain insights from the integration and
appropriation of technologies in urban environments. Subsequently, he
exploits the gained knowledge with engineering techniques to foresee
and prototype ideas and solutions for designers, urban service
providers, city planners and decision makers.
Fabien holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Digital Communications from
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (see
full list of publications) and an engineering degree from the
Biel School of Engineering and Information Technology, Switzerland. Along his academic journey, Fabien was also affiliated with the
Senseable City Lab
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA to
lead the development of analysis methods of real-time and historical
aggregated spatio-temporal records to improve the understanding of
different aspects of human mobility and urban attractiveness. Prior to
his graduate studies, he joined the
CRAFT
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies, Lausanne (EPFL) to
design, implement, and study location-aware collaborative applications.
Subsequently, Fabien co-founded
Simpliquity,
an EPFL spin-off to design and develop of mobility detection systems
for mobile phones to perform context-aware experience sampling surveys
on a world-wide scale.
Fabien speaks and lectures widely in conferences such as Lift, Picnic, Visualizar, Mobile Monday (see
full list of talks). His blog about the domains of mobility, urban environments, and infrastructure-human interaction is called
7.5th Floor.
»Curriculum vitae on Linkedin.
Selected
publications »more...
Girardin, F. (2009).
Aspects of implicit and explicit
human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information.
PhD thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Girardin, F., Nova, N., and Dillenbourg, P. (2009).
Detecting air travel to survey passengers on a worldwide scale.
Journal of Location-Based Services, 3(3):210–226.
Girardin, F., Vaccari, A., Gerber, A., Biderman, A., and Ratti, C.
(2009).
Quantifying
urban attractiveness from the distribution and
density of digital footprints.
International Journal of Spatial
Data Infrastructure Research, 4:175-200.
Girardin, F., Calabrese, F., Dal Fiore, F. , Ratti, C., and
Blat, J.
(2008).
Digital
footprinting: Uncovering tourists with user-generated
content.
IEEE
Pervasive Computing, 7(4):36–43.
Girardin, F., Fiore, F. D., Ratti, C., and Blat, J. (2008).
Leveraging
explicitly disclosed location information to understand tourist
dynamics: A case study.
Journal
of Location-Based Services 2, 1, 41–54.
Selected talks »more...
Mieux comprendre l'espace physique à partir des activités numériques (
slides,
video), Conférence Technokark 2010, Sierre, Switzerland, January 29, 2010.
Analysis of Visitors from their Digital Activities (
slides),
The First International Conference on the Measurement and Economic
Analysis of Regional Tourism, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain, October
28, 2009.
Pratiques des nouveaux espaces numériques (
slides), La Terre Vue du Web, Paris, France, October 7, 2009.
Considerations on the recorded, quantified, communicated and apprised self (
slides), Information Kinetics- Egoviz, San Sebastian, Spain, August 19, 2009.
People + technology + space (
slides,
video),
Design Hub Barcelona session on New Landscapes – Architecture
Beyond Leisure, Barcelona, Spain, June 4, 2009.
People as sensors; people as actors (
slides),
Data City workshop at the World Information City conference, Paris,
France, May 31, 2009.
People as sensors; people as actors (
slides,
video,
interview),
Workshop on "La Ciudad Híbrida", Sevilla, Spain, May 12,
2009.
La ville 2.0 existe déjà, on l'a
rencontrée (
slides),
Villes 2.0 & Co, Paris, France, January 8, 2009.
From Sentient to Responsive Cities (
slides,
video),
Visualizar Database City workshop at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain,
November 3, 2008.
Mapping of city dynamics (
slides),
Mobile Monday Barcelona, Spain, December 3, 2007.
The Design of Everyday
Pervasive
Things (
slides),
Picnic Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 29, 2007.
Embracing
the Real World’s Messiness (
slides,
video),
Lift Conference,
Geneva, Switzerland, February 9, 2007.
In the media
Quelle ville voulons-nous offrir ? Quelle ville
espérons-nous recevoir ? (
web
page -
pdf),
Le Monde, March 6, 2009.
Los taxistas como usuarios avanzandos de la tecnología y de
la ciudad: GPS y Wikipedia (
web
page), ADN, November 6, 2008.
Réduire l'incertain, Révéler le
réel-réel (
web
page), Group Chronos, October 24, 2008.
Conocer la ciudad siguiendo nuestras huellas digitales (
web
page), Infomania, May, 2008.
Barcelona tourists stick to well-beaten paths (
pdf),
Catalonia Today, April 3, 2008.
Internet revela los movimientos de los turistas en las ciudades (
pdf), El
Periodico, March 31, 2008.
Huellas digitales en las ciudades (
web
page), ADN, March 7, 2008.
Il turista fa clic e si svela (
web
page), La Repubblica, February 12, 2008.
Interview (
video),
Nouvo, February 7, 2008.
Les cartographes du téléphone mobile (
web
page), Le Monde Informatique, September 5, 2007.
Avec Yoodle.ch, deux entrepreneurs rêvent d'un Yahoo à la sauce edelweiss (
web page,
pdf), Le Temps, March 11, 2000.
© 2009 - Fabien Girardin
Lift lab