IntuiLab co-founder, Stéphane Chatty, has received a Google Research Award for his work in the field of human-computer interaction. Granted in his capacity as Research Scientist for the Interactive Computing Laboratory at ENAC – the French national aviation university – Chatty will use the award to develop a theoretical framework aimed at extending the Linux input system to natively support natural user interfaces.

After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Paris-Sud with a PhD in computer science, Chatty co-founded IntuiLab in 2002 with colleagues Damien Figarol and Laurent Karsenty. Upon the recruitment of Vincent Encontre as CEO in 2006, Chatty returned to academia, currently acting as Director of the ENAC R&D Labs, while maintaining contact with IntuiLab as their scientific advisor. This relationship with IntuiLab has focused on software architectures for user interfaces and has resulted in the joint filing of a patent on an architecture for supporting multiple, concurrent inputs produced by interactive applications.

The purpose of the Google Research Awards is to facilitate interaction between Google and academia. The awards are used to support academic research aimed at improving information access. In December 2011, Google awarded over $6 million to 119 projects across 21 different focus areas.