GUERIN Clément

Clément Guerin is an assistant professor in psychology and cognitive ergonomics at the Université Bretagne Sud (Lorient, France).

He teaches courses in Ergonomics, Occupational Health and Safety Management, Human reliability at the Engineer School of South Brittany (ENSIBS). He was the head of the ENSIBS 4.0 Industrial Engineering Department (co-director from 2015 to 2017 and director from 2017 to 2020).

His main research topic is human-machine cooperation and especially the processes of elaboration and maintenance of a "common ground of reference" (COFOR) between human and technological agents.

His research works aim to study how the human-machine dialogue could be enhanced and operationalized in various application domains: production activities of Industry 4.0 (cooperation with cyberphysical technologies – e.g., cobots collaborative robots) or predictive maintenance activities of Industry 4.0 (cooperation with artificial intelligence), smart home for seniors or people with disabilities for assistance in their daily activities (cooperation with assistant virtual agent – e.g., cooking).

More specifically, he studies human-machine dialogue using the framework of information transparency between cooperative agents. He analyses, in his research works, the impact of intelligent system’ transparency settings upon human performance, trust in the intelligent system, mental workload (or cognitive cost), and situation awareness. Transparency settings could facilitate adaptation of human-machine systems and could have a positive impact on issues of trust and acceptance.

Research projects : 

2027-2030 (42 months) STITCH, ANR Project (Support Textile recyclIng with beTter Cooperation between Human and intelligent systems).

• Budget : 761k€
• Consortium : CETIA Innovation platform, ESTIA-Recherche and Lab-STICC Laboratories

2024-2026 (34 months) GEMINI3D, ANR Project (Digital Twins for 3D Printing), Action Solutions pour l’Industrie du Futur de l’ANR.

• Budget : 1521k€
• Consortium : EdgeMind Company, Technological platform ComposiTIC-Industry of the future (University of South Brittany), Lab-STICC Laboratory 

2022-2026 (48 months) RODIC, ANR Project (Rapid recOnfiguration of manufacturing systems: a model-baseD software engineering and human Interaction Coupled approach). 

• Budget : 534k€
• Consortium : LS2N, Lab-STICC, and iCube Laboratories

2022-2025 (36 months) SMAAC, Cifre Project (Adaptive assistance for disabled people in smart cooking)

• Contrat de collaboration : 48k€
• Consortium : ADAPEI 56 non-profit organization, Lab-STICC Laboratory, M@D Chair (Maintien @ Domicile : Home support Chair)

2021-2024 (36 months) CO-TWIN 4.0, Cifre Project (Collaborative digital twin for maintenance 4.0)

• Contrat de collaboration : 52k€
• Consortium : SPIE Company, Lab-STICC Laboratory

2020-2022 (24 months + 6 months Covid) SEANATIC, PIA ADEME Project (SEA aNAlyTIc Connected).

• Budget : 450k€
• Consortium : Azimut, IOT Bzh, Thalos and Piriou Companies, Lab-STICC Laboratory

2018-2021 (36 months) HUMANISM, ANR Project (HUman-MAchines CooperatioN for flexIble production SysteMs - Coopération Hommes-Machines pour des systèmes de production flexibles). 

• Budget : 310k€
• Consortium : LAMIH, Lab-STICC and CReSTIC Laboratories

2012-2015 (36 months) AMELIS Project (Interactive wall calendar for seniors living at home)

• Consortium : DOMUS and Lab-STICC Laboratories

2012-2015 (36 months) TAPAS, ANR-ASTRID Project (Techniques of Analysis Pending for Authority allocation in Systems of systems)

• Budget : 284k€
• Consortium : DGA, Dassault Aviation, Landivisiau Naval Air Base and Telecom Bretagne (Graduate School of Engineering. Current name : IMT Atlantique), Lab-STICC Laboratory

Scientific reviewing (journal and conference) : Cognition Technology and Work, International Journal of Production Research, Manufacturing Letters, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, International Federation of Automatic Control (Human-Machine Systems), Behaviour & Information Technology, EPIQUE 2023, ECCE 2024, SELF 2025, ECCE 2025

Scientific reviewing (project) : ANR project, CIFRE ANRT project

Responsibility and scientific involvement : 

- co-chair of the 13th EPIQUE 2026 conference

- member of the organizing committee of the 35th international conference ECCE 2024 (European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics)

- elected member of the Board of Directors of the French Association in cognitive ergonomics ARPEGE (Association de Recherche en Psychologie Ergonomique et Ergonomie) and office member (treasurer)

- head of the Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality commission (ARPEGE association)

- elected member of the Board of Directors of the French engineer school ENSIBS (South Brittany University National Engineering School )

- member of the scientific council of the Research Ethics Committee of the University Alliance of Brittany