[AISWorld] Post-Doc Position: Development of a customizable configuration approach for the digital work environment

[Elena Kornyshova]

*Development of a customizable configuration approach for the digital 
work environment*

  * Job: Post doctorate
  * Salary: 2600-2700 € monthly gross income
  * Starting Date: April-May 2022
  * Duration: 12 months
  * Location: CNAM, Paris (75) and IRSN, Fontenay aux Roses (92)

*Context:*

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM, a public high 
education and research institution) and Institut de Radioprotection et 
de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN, i.e. the public expert in research and 
expertise relating to radiological risks, the protection of man and 
environment) have joined forces in a joint «Cartographie Immersive 
Etendue/ Extended Immersive Mapping (CIE)» project to innovate the 
digital environment for researchers. In this context, we are recruiting 
a post doctorate whose mission is to propose a design and a concrete 
implementation (Proof Of Concept) of the CIE project, the whole 
constituting the first part of this project.

*Description :*

IRSN operates experimental facilities, scientific and technical 
equipment, metrology resources and specialized mobile intervention 
resources. These resources are grouped together by «Plateformes 
Scientifiques et Techniques / Scientific and Technical Platforms (PST)». 
The objective of the joint «Cartographie Immersive Etendue/ Extended 
Immersive Mapping (CIE)» project is to set up a digital environment for 
the optimization and promotion of the scientific and technical means of 
PSTs for the benefit of laboratory teams and other potential users. The 
CIE must make it possible to provide customizable access to PSTs and 
associated services (3D visits, planning, economic monitoring, community 
networks, etc.) according to several parameters such as the user's 
profile (internal, external, their profession, its hierarchical 
position, etc.) and its information / data needs (type, level of detail, 
mode of restitution).
To achieve these objectives, a situational engineering approach will be 
used with an identification of reusable components defined in relation 
to user needs and the context of their use. Each user will have a 
digital space specific to their needs built on an evolving library of 
components.
The design, implementation and evolution of the CIE must follow the 
principles of modularity, reuse and adaptation to the context, as well 
as to the intentions and needs of the users. In order to provide a 
suitable and evolving workspace for each user, the UX (User eXperience) 
[1] [2] and EX (Employee eXperience) [3] [4] approaches applied in the 
digital environment of IRSN were favored and should make it possible to 
build and then enrich the mapping of the scientific resources of the 
PSTs as well as all the associated services.

IRSN's digital environment currently includes:

  * Digital workplace (https://www.jalios.com/): this environment
    provides the IRSN intranet (including management of internal
    communities of practice);
  * Microsoft tools (Sharepoint online, Power BI, Teams, Office…);
  * 3D virtual tour (https://vrtice.com/): this solution developed by a
    startup facilitates access to content in a 3D environment; SPOT uses
    this tool for the promotion of facilities but also for training and
    management;
  * CRAFT web database (https://www.bdi.fr/fr/plateforme-craft/): the
    pilot produced by IRSN currently makes it possible to gather all the
    data from these laboratories and their facilities, then to share
    them internally, with its partners but also with the general public;
  * Internal database search engine (https://www.sinequa.com/): this
    engine is used to address most IRSN databases (scientific,
    administrative, technical, etc.);
  * External database search engine AMI (https://www.chapsvision.fr/data/);
  * Other tools (LEGISWAY for contract management, SAP ERP, etc.).

*Post-doctoral research project:*

  * Prepare a state of the art of existing work in the field of UX and
    EX systems applicable to the context of the CIE,
  * Consolidate the previously conducted analysis of user needs in order
    to identify the list of functional and technical requirements,
  * Propose a taxonomy of description of PST installations and equipment
    at different levels by highlighting their possible uses,
  * Formalize the notion of the UX / EX component and identify a set of
    components for a given perimeter,
  * Propose an approach for configuring the digital work environment
    according to user needs and profiles,
  * Participate in the definition of the target architecture of the
    digital environment, considering the information system in place and
    Enterprise Architecture rules,
  * Implementation of the proposed approach for a given scope
    (production of a POC).

An apprentice will assist the post doctorate in the digital web 
development of CIE components (creation of application pilots, 
interfaces in the digital environment of IRSN).

*Application :*

Please send your application to sebastien.ruelle at irsn.fr. The 
application must include:

  * Current resume;
  * Cover letter;
  * Thesis report;
  * Publications related to the candidate's research work;
  * Possibly one or more letters of recommendation.

*Selected References:*

 1. Hassenzahl, M., Tractinsky, N.: User experience – a research agenda,
    Behaviour & Infor-mation Technology, Vol. 25, No. 2, 91-97 (2006)
 2. Law, E., Roto, V., Vermeeren, A., Kort, J., Hassenzahl, M.: Towards
    a shared definition of user experience: In Proceedings of CHI '08,
    2395–2398 (2008)
 3. Plaskoff, J. (2017), "Employee experience: the new human resource
    management approach", Strategic HR Review, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp.
    136-141. https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-12-2016-0108
 4. Shivakumar S.K. (2020) Introduction to Employee Experience
    Platforms. In: Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace. Apress,
    Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5512-4_1