My publications
In revision, accepted
Books, book chapters
Noël, S., Lemire, D. (2010). On the challenges of collaborative data processing. In J. Foster (Ed.), Collaborative Information Behavior: User Engagement and Communications Sharing, Information Science Publishing. Available through Amazon. As well, a draft version of the chapter is available through arXiv.
Scientific journals
Adler, A., Nash, J.C., Noël, S. (2009). Collaborative work using single user applications. Open Source Business Resource, July 2009, special issue on Collaboration. Available online at OSBR.ca
Adler, A., Nash, J.C., Noël, S. (2006). Evaluating and implementing a collaborative office document system. Interacting with Computers, 18 (4), 665-682.
Noël, S., Robert, J.-M. (2004).
Empirical study on collaborative writing: What do co-authors do, use, and like?
Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, 13 (1), 63-89.
Last draft version available in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) (133Kb)
Noël, S., Robert, J.-M. (2003).
How the Web is used to support collaborative writing.
Behaviour & Information Technology, 22 (4), 245-262.
Last draft version in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) (135Kb)
Table 5 also PDF format (11Kb)
Noël, S., Robert, J.-M. (2002).
Assister l'écriture collective: Solutions sur réseaux locaux ou étendus et sur le Web.
Revue d'interaction homme machine, 3 (2), 95-114.
To obtain a copy of the last draft version (in PDF format) - French only -, please write to me.
Scientific conferences
Noël, S., Dumoulin, S. and Lindgaard, G. (2009). Interpreting human and avatar facial expressions. In T. Gross et al. (Eds.), Proceedings Interact 2009, Part I, LNCS 5726, p. 98-110, August 24-28, 2009, Uppsala, Sweden.
Noël, S. (2008). Emotional Avatars. Talk presented at Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, 12-14 October, 2008.
Noël, S. and Beale, R. (2008). Sharing vocabularies: Tag usage in CiteULike. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of Interaction, a specialist group of the British Computer Society (HCI2008), Vol. 2, pp. 71-74. Liverpool, UK, 1-5 September 2008.
Stewart, J.A., Dumoulin, S.J. and Noël, S. (2007). Binding external interactivity to X3D. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D 2007, pp. 109-112.
Noël, S., Dumoulin, S., Whalen, T., Stewart, J. (2006). Recognizing emotions on static and animated avatar faces. HAVE 2006, pp. 99-104, Ottawa, Canada, 4-5 November 2006.
Noël, S., Dumoulin, S. (2006). Qui parle? Comparaison d'indices pour identifier l'interlocuteur dans un monde virtuel. Actes de la 18e conférence francophone sur l'interaction homme-machine - IHM2006, Montreal, Canada, 18-21 April 2006.
Stewart, J.A., Dumoulin, S.J., Noël, S. (2006). X3D conformance testing factors in creating a viable test suite. Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2006, Ottawa, Canada, 7-10 May 2006.
Corrie, B., Zimmerman, T., Patrick, A.S., El-Khatib, K., Singer, J., Noël, S., Storey, M.-A. (2005). Technology, technology, everywhere! Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, WACE2005, Redmond, Wash., USA. September 8-9, 2005.
Noël S., Dumoulin, S. (2005). Cheaters, resource farmers, ninja looters, and gankers: If we make collaborative virtual environments more like games, should our users be worried? Computer Games and CSCW Workshop, ECSCW2005, Paris, France. September 19, 2005.
Robert, J.-M., de Souza Vieira, R., Noël, S., Dos Santos, N. (2005). A survey on collaborative work between professors. The IASTED International Conference on Education and Technology, ICET2005, Calgary, Canada. 4-6 July 2005.
Adler, A., Nash, J.C., Noël, S. (2004). TellTable: A server for collaborative office applications. Sixth International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems, CSCW2004, Chicago, USA. 6-10 November 2004. Published online, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, special edition, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems
Noël, S., Dumoulin, S., Whalen, T., Ward, M., Stewart, J., Lee, E. (2004). A breeze enhances presence in a virtual environment. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Haptic, Audio, and Visual Environments and their Applications - HAVE 2004, Ottawa, 2-3 October 2004, pp 63-68.
Patrick, A.S., Singer, J. , Corrie, B., Noël, S., El-khatib, K., Emond, B., Zimmerman, T., Marsh, S. (2004). A QoE Sensitive Architecture for Advanced Collaborative Environments. Poster, First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QSHINE 2004). Dallas, Texas. 18-20 October 2004.
Corrie, B, Zimmerman, T., Marsh, S., Patrick, A.S., Singer, J., Emond, B., Noël, S. (2003) SCGlobal Birds of a Feather: Towards Quality of Experience in Advanced Collaborative Environments. SC2003, AccessGrid Session. 18 November 2003.
Whalen, T.E., Noël, S., Stewart, J. Measuring the human side of virtual reality. IEEE VECIMS 2003. Lugano, Switzerland. 27-29 July 2003.
Rodriguez, H., Noël, S. Col•lecció: collective bookmark discussion applying social navigation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction International, Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2003
Corrie, B., Wong, H.-Y., Zimmerman, T., Emond, B., Marsh, S., Patrick, A.S., Singer, J., & Noël, S. (2003). Towards Quality of Experience in Advanced Collaborative Environments. Paper presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments 2003, Seattle, Washington, June 22 2003. Available in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf)
Noël, S., Whalen, T. (2002). WebScribe: Co-Writing on the Web. Interactive Poster, Conference Proceedings, Conference Supplement, CSCW'02, 16-20 November, New Orleans, USA, pp. 185-186.
Noël, S., Robert, J.-M. (2001). Assister l'écriture collective. Proceedings Conference JIM 2001, IHM & Assistance, 4-6 July, Metz, France, pp. 63-70. Available in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf) (161Kb)
Internal publications
Noël, S. (2005). Bubbles, names, and minimaps: Improving awareness of the speaker within a collaborative virtual environment Technical Memorandum VPNT 2005/06. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2005). Final report on the QoE-ACE project. Technical Memorandum VPNT 2005/03. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2004). Web site activity from 24/04/2004 to 30/04/2004 for charlie.dgrc.crc.ca/~sylvie/. Technical Memorandum VPNT 2004/02. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2004). Enhancing presence in a virtual environment through the use of a breeze Technical Memorandum VPNT 2005/07. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2004). Interaction Techniques in Virtual Environments. Technical Memorandum VPNT 2004/01. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2003). Project Reconnais-Son - Managing auditory files. Report on experiment 1: Detailed results for the individual audio files. Technical Memorandum VPNT 2003/11. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2003). Project Reconnais-Son - Managing auditory files. Report on experiment 1: Describing audio files using pitch, volume, rhythm and length. Technical Memorandum VPNT 2003/12. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2002). A quick usability overview of the new tablet PC using Microsoft XP Tablet PC Edition. Technical Memorandum VPNT 02/11. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2002). Quality of experience of videoconferencing. Technical Memorandum VPNT 02/10. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2002). A comparison of existing software for creating virtual reality worlds. Technical Memorandum VPNT 02/02. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Noël, S. (2001). Use of the R.O.A.D. Web-Based Training System From November 2000 to March 2001. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Whalen, T., Noël, S. Irvine, G. (2000). An Evaluation of Web-Based Professional Development for High School Teachers. Ottawa, ON: Communications Research Centre.
Older publications
Abstract of my Master's thesis
Noël, S. (2001).
Comment assister l'écriture collective sur le Web. (How to support collaborative writing on the Web)
Unpublished master's thesis, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.
Available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format: 4.5 Mb. FRENCH VERSION ONLY.
Noël, S. (1996).
Effets de l'expertise sur la structure des concepts. (Effects of expertise on conceptual structure)
Unpublished doctoral thesis, Psychology Department, Université de
Montréal, Montreal
Abstract (in English) from my Ph.D.
Text in French The document is in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. 12 Mb. Link from the Theses Canada Portal site.
Milech, D., Waters, B., Noël, S., Roy, G., Kirsner, K. (1993). Student modelling in hybrid training systems. in G. Salvendy and M.J. Smith (Eds.). Human-Computer Interaction: Software and Hardware Interfaces. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International'93). Volume 2, pp. 754-759. New York: Elsevier.
Larochelle, S., Noël, S., Vikis-Freibergs, V. (1993). Les effets de l'expertise dans des tâches de catégorisation. Poster presented at the 24th annual conference of the Francophone Association of Scientific Psychology. Aix-en-Provence: September 16, 1993.
Larochelle, S., Vikis-Freibergs, V., Noël, S. (1992). Does expertise influence the structure of categories? Poster presented at the 25th International Congress of Psychology. Brussels: July 20 1992.
Noël, S. (1992). Differences between expert and novice birdwatchers. Poster presented at the annual UWA Psychology Conference. Perth: June 1992.
Noël, S., Vikiikis-Freibergs, V., Larochelle, S. (1991). Relation entre la typicité et la familiarié de dessins d'oiseaux. Poster presented at the 59th annual conference of the French-Canadian Society for the Advancement of Sciences. May 21-24, 1991.
Noël, S., Larochelle, S., Vikis-Freibergs, V. (1990). Structure des concepts chez les experts et les novices. Poster presented at the 13th annual conference of the QSRP (Quebec Society for Research in Psychology). Montreal: November 19, 1990.
Noël, S. (1990). Organisation conceptuelle chez l'expert et chez le novice. Conference presented at the GRECO (research group in cognition and cognitive development, Psychology Department, Université d Montréal). Montreal: April 5, 1990.
Noël, S. (1987). Textes narratifs et rôles sexuels. Unpublished master's thesis. Université de Montréal, Monteal.