Dr. Céline Clavel
I'm an Assistant Professor at LISN CNRS, University Paris-Saclay and teach at IUT de Sceaux in the management department. Concerning my research, I am part of the Cognition Perception and Uses Group at LIMSI where I work on affective dimension in social interaction and on the impact of interface design for the interaction.
My research focuses on the socio-affective processes involved in human-human and human-technology interactions. I am particularly interested in how emotions, socio-emotional skills, motivation, and relational dynamics shape individual and collective behaviour.
My work aims to better understand how individuals perceive their environment, interact with others, and adapt to contexts of change, learning, and transition. In particular, I investigate interactions with digital technologies, conversational agents, and intelligent interactive systems, as well as the psychosocial factors that shape user engagement, behavioural adaptation, and user experience.
These research questions have applications across a wide range of domains, including healthcare, higher education, professional training, and societal transitions. I am especially interested in students' adaptation to university and acculturation to higher education, as well as in the potential of digital technologies to support learning, skills development, and behaviour change.
Drawing on theories and methods from social and cognitive psychology, I combine surveys, controlled experiments, observational methods, and multimodal behavioural analyses to better understand human behaviour and inform the design of technologies and environments that better support users' needs and enhance their user experience.