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Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

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EPFL2021

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We have recently released in the open domain data originating from a series of flights conducted with a fixed-wing micro UAV carrying high-quality small camera and navigation sensors. This data was previously used in several peer-reviewed publications. How ...

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EPFL2020

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EPFL2020

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EPFL2019

Body-machine interfaces for non-homologous human-machine interactions

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Virtual reality (VR), the interactive experience of being immersed in a simulated environment, has seen a tremendous development in the last years. Numerous applications came into being, ranging from flight simulators through a virtual ascent of Mount Ever ...

EPFL2019

UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

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Ieee2016

Screen or Tabletop: An Eye-Tracking Study of the Effect of Representation Location in a Tangible User Interface System

Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Lorenzo Lucignano, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

This article presents a comparison of the effects of input-output location (co-located versus discrete) on user performance in a tangible user interface (TUI) system. We conducted a mobile eye-tracking study with two different versions of a TUI system and, ...

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Gesture control interface for immersive panoramic displays

In this paper, we propose a gesture-based interface designed to interact with panoramic scenes. The system combines novel static gestures with a fast hand tracking method. Our proposal is to use static gestures as shortcuts to activate functionalities of t ...

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Task Performance vs. Learning Outcomes: A Study of Tangible User Interface in Classroom Setting

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) offer the potential to facilitate collaborative learning in new ways. This paper presents an empirical study that investigated the effects of a TUE in a classroom setting on task performance and learning outcomes. In the tan ...

Springer2010

The Complementarity of Tangible and Paper Interfaces in Tabletop Environments for Collaborative Learning

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The current trend in Human-Computer Interaction aims at bridging the gap between the digital and the real world, exploring novel ways to engage users with computational devices. Computers take new forms that are better integrated into our environment and c ...

EPFL2010

User interaction with online geospatial systems

Jens Ingensand

User interaction with online geospatial systems is an inter-disciplinary research field that combines the two disciplines Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and geographic information sciences. In recent years online geospatial systems have been created for ...

EPFL2010

Designable Visual Markers for Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

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Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application to mobile human-computer interaction (HCI). By scanning a visual marker throu ...

EPFL2010

Systematic Evaluation Methodology and Performance Metrics for Haptic Interfaces

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The purpose of evaluation procedures for haptic interfaces is to achieve both qualitative and quantitative statements on haptic rendering realism and performance. Since haptics technology is being increasingly used in computer games, surgical simulators, m ...

EPFL2010

Error handling in multimodal voice-enabled interfaces of tour-guide robots using graphical models

Plamen Prodanov

Mobile service robots are going to play an increasing role in the society of humans. Voice-enabled interaction with service robots becomes very important, if such robots are to be deployed in real-world environments and accepted by the vast majority of pot ...

EPFL2006