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Michael J. Baker is a tenured Research Director/Professor in Language Sciences of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS: www.cnrs.fr). He currently works in the Social and Economic Sciences department of Télécom Paris, the French national graduate school for telecom engineering. He carries out interdisciplinary research (psychology/language sciences) on analysing dialogues in group learning, design and creativity situations, often involving technology mediation, focussing on constructive argumentation and the role of emotion. He is currently co-director of the research group on uses of technology, participation and democratisation of innovation, within the CNRS lab « Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation », which groups together the social and economic sciences departments of three engineering schools: Télécom Paris, École Polytechnique and École des Mines. After studies in philosophy and psychology at the University of Durham (1st class honours, 1982; University Scholar, Gabbett prizes in philosophy, psychology), in music at the University of Huddersfield, then a PhD in cognitive science at the Open University (1990), he was awarded the habilitation à diriger des recherches in psychology in 2004 (a post-PhD degree required for a full professor position) for research on knowledge elaboration in dialogue. Michael Baker has been visiting professor at the universities of Stockholm/KTH and Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He directed research teams on interaction and cognition within language sciences research labs in Lyon (ENS, ICAR) and Paris (LEAPLE, Sorbonne ; MODYCO, University Paris Nanterre) before joining Télécom Paris in 2008.