The UPMF (Pierre-Mendès-France University, 19,000 students, including 3,000 foreigners) offers a
wide range of courses in social and human sciences (economy, law, political sciences, management,
history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, applied mathematics, and so on). Two
researchers of the UPMF team (Philippe Dessus & Sonia Mandin) are members of the Laboratoire des
sciences de l'éducation, in which they are carrying out research on Interactive Learning Environments.
The two other members (i.e., Benoît Lemaire and Virginie Zampa) of the UPMF team actually are,
respectively, at the Joseph-Fourier University (sciences-oriented: mathematics, physics, biology and
medicine) and the Stendhal University (literature and language oriented). Benoît Lemaire is with the
TIM-C laboratory (aka, Techniques for biomedical engineering and complexity management –
informatics, mathematics and applications – Grenoble). The TIMC-IMAG laboratory gathers scientists
and clinicians towards the use of computer science and applied mathematics for understanding and
controlling normal and pathological processes in biology and healthcare. This multi-disciplinary
activity both contributes to the basic knowledge of those domains and to the development of systems
for computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy. Virginie Zampa is with the LIDILEM laboratory
Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique Langues Etrangères et Maternelles (LIDILEM, or
Linguistics and L1/L2 language didactics).