Thibault Estier

Dr. Thibault Estier is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems (DESI) at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne. He earned his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Geneva in 1995. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Estier contributed to the development of Switzerland’s first web-based Content Management System (CMS) in 1997 while working at the internet startup inextenso.com.

Since joining the University of Lausanne in 1999, Dr. Estier has focused his research on the evolution of information systems. He has also collaborated on projects aimed at enhancing programming education, such as the development of Thyone, a collaborative Jupyter Notebook extension designed to support learners’ programming regulation and motivation in online classroom settings.

In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Estier serves as a representative of the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) on the Council of the Interfaculty Platform for Computer Science (P2i) at the University of Lausanne.

Joint Publications

Lahari Goswami, Alexandre Senges, Thibault Estier, and Mauro Cherubini. 2023. Supporting Co-Regulation and Motivation in Learning Programming in Online Classrooms. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 298 (October 2023), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610089

Lahari Goswami, Pegah Sadat Zeinoddin, Thibault Estier, and Mauro Cherubini. 2023. Supporting Collaboration in Introductory Programming Classes Taught in Hybrid Mode: A Participatory Design Study. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), July 10–14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596042