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Saadi Lahlou is professor in social psychology, currently Head of the department of the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. He conduct and publish research in the areas of social psychology, consumer behaviour, survey and forecast methods, lexical analysis, cognition and design.

Biography
Saadi Lahlou graduated as statistician and economist at the ENSAE in Paris. He obtained his PhD in social psychology at EHESS with Pr. Serge Moscovici, and his HDR (habilitation as a research director) at University of Provence with Pr. Jean-Claude Abric. He also holds degrees in Human Biology and Ethology.

He directed the research department on consumer studies at CREDOC – Centre for the Study of Lifestyles and Social Policies, in Paris (1987-1993). He was the head of a research unit on organizations at Électricité de France (EDF) (1993-1997). He founded the Laboratory of Design for Cognition at EDF R&D, which he directed until 2009.

He was a member of the evaluation committee of the French Prime Minister office's Commissariat Général du Plan.

In parallel, he continued his basic research in social psychology and cognitive science at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale at EHESS, where he held research seminars (1998-2010) ; as scientific director of the Cognitive Technologies program at Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme since 1998 and as associate CNRS research director at Edgar Morin Centre from CNRS-EHESS. He founded and coordinated the RUFAE network (Research on User-Friendly Augmented Environments).

He joined the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics in January 2008.

Research
His first social science research was a reconsideration of Durkheim’s Suicide, conducted under the supervision of Christian Baudelot

He studied facial mimics of newborns in the CNRS-INSERM research unit of Michel Jouvet.

At CREDOC (Research Center for Lifestyles and Social Policies, Paris), his research mainly focused on consumer behaviour, especially on eating, and social representations theory. His book Penser Manger published by PUF received the prix Trémolières decerned by Institut Benjamin Delessert. . His book was reviewed by Sciences Humaines and by the American Psycological Association.

He set up large statistical observation instruments (such as the Observatoire des Consommations Alimentaires, now part of Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire ), contributed to the development of automated text analysis and to the application of multivariate analysis methods to behavioral and cultural studies.

When he joined EDF R&D in 1993, he conducted organizational studies, developed video observation techniques, especially the "subcam", a wearable miniature video-camera included in glasses, providing a detailed first-person recording of the subject's activity and design approaches. Lahlou's work explores various cognitive aspects of the digital world: cognitive overload syndrome, privacy issues and knowledge sharing and transfer.

He has been involved in two main projects concerning sustainability issues : Barenergy, a european project which try to undestand the "Barriers for energy changes" and another on Energy use and the built environment which lead to the publication of a collective book, System Innovation for Sustainability 4.

His current research focuses on the distribution of determinants of human behaviour between the physical space, mental space, and social space ("World Installation Theory"); on innovation processes, especially involving participative design; on digital ethnography.

He was invited to speak for the 50 years of Social Science Information journal. He is regularly invited as key-note speaker in conferences.

Publications (short selection of books, special issues, peer-rewieved journal articles)
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi (ed.). System Innovation for Sustainability 4: Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Energy Use and the Built Environment. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2010. 288p. (Chapters by S. Lahlou A. Tukker, M. Charter & T. Woolman; H. Szejnwald-Brown & P. J. Vergragt; R. Wimmer & M.J. Kang; R. Wuestenhagen; J. P. Thorp; I. Kaltenegger & A. Tisch; V. Loftness, V. Hartkopf, A. Aziz, M. Snyder, J. Choi & X. Yang; C. Fischer; F.Reusswig, S. Lorek, D. & D. Fuchs). ISBN-13: 978-1906093259

(2010) LAHLOU, S. NOSULENKO, V. (guest eds) Digitize and Transfer. Social Science Information. 49 (3): 291 – 507. (Papers by Lewis Pea & Rosen, Garcia-Lorenzo, Habert & Huc, Cordelois, Ganascia, Barabanschikov, Le Bellu, Lahlou & Nosulenko, 216 p.). 

(2009) LAHLOU, Saadi (ed). Designing User Friendly Augmented Work Environments. London: Springer. Computer Supported Cooperative Work Series, Nov. 2009. 347p. (Chapters by : Stanford (B. Johansson, A. Fox, T. Winograd.), UC San Diego (E. Hutchins, J. Hollan), Carnegie-Mellon (V. V. Loftness, V. Hartkopf, A. Aziz.), Swedish Royal Inst. of Technology (C. G. Jansson.), U. Aachen (J. Borchers), Russian Acad. Sc (Nosulenko & Samoylenko), Xerox Palo-Alto (M. Back, G. Golovchinsky, P. Qvarfordt, W. van Melle, J. Boreczky, T. Dunnigan, S. Carter); EDF R&D (Lahlou). ISBN-13: 978-1848000971.

(2008) LAHLOU, S. NOSULENKO, V. (guest eds) Cognitive Technologies. Social Science Information. September 2008; 47 (3): 227 - 457 (Papers by Lahlou, Joore, Vertegall and Shell, Lenay, Pea Lindgren and Rosen, Beaudouin, Nosulenko, Alexandrov: 230 p.)

(2000) LAHLOU, S. (sous la coord de.): Technologies Cognitives et environnement de travail., Intellectica, 30, 2000/1. (Articles de D. Kirsh, E. Hutchins, S. Lahlou, A.V. Cicourel, C. Heath P. Luff G. Nicholls D. vom Lehn, W.E. Mackay, M. Zacklad : 222 p.)

(1998) LAHLOU, S. Penser manger. Alimentation et représentations sociales. Paris : P.U.F., 1998. 239p. (Prix Trémolières 1998). ISBN-13: 978-2130491361.

(2011) LAHLOU, S. (2011). How can we capture the subject's perspective? An evidence-based approach for the social scientist. Social Science Information. Vol. 50, n°3-4, 2011. 607-655

(2011) LAHLOU, S. (2011) L’effet du contexte dans la mise en pratique des représentations. Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, Vol 7 n°15, Jul-Dec 2011, pp. 129-156.

(2010) CHALLAMEL, Marie-Josephe, LAHLOU, Saadi, DEBILLY, G. (2010) Sourires spontanés et mimiques faciales du nouveau-né : une approche sur le rôle du sommeil paradoxal au cours du développement. Médecine du sommeil, 7 (2). pp. 45-54. ISSN 1769-4493

(2010) LE BELLU, S. ; LAHLOU, S. ; NOSULENKO, V. (2010). Capter et transférer le savoir incorporé dans un geste professionnel. Social Science Information. Vol 49, n°3, 2010. pp 371-413. Sept 2010.

(2010) LAHLOU, S. (2010). Transferring Human Experience: Issues with Digitization. Social Science Information. Vol. 49, n°3, 2010. pp. 291-327. Sept 2010.

(2010) LAHLOU, S. (2010). Contexte et intention dans la détermination de l’activité : une nouvelle topique des motivations ; Intellectica, 2010/1-2, n° 53-54, June 2010, pp. 233-280.