Caroline Appert

Christine Froidevaux, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (president)
Joëlle Coutaz, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (reviewer)
Philip Gray, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (reviewer)
Eric Lecolinet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (advisor)

2003

DEA (equivalent to a M.Sc.) in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud

Information Interaction Intelligence, Université Paris-Sud

Mention très bien (i.e. with honors)

Gilles Kahn thesis prize (2007)
Best paper for [C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2006) SMCanvas : augmenter la boîte à outils Java Swing pour prototyper des techniques d'interaction avancées. IHM 2006. ACM Press, pages 99-106.]
Best paper for [C.Appert, S. Huot, P. Dragicevic and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2009) FlowStates : Prototypage d'application interactives avec des flots de données et des machines à états. IHM 2009. ACM Press, pages 119-128.]
Honorable mention for [M.-J. Lobo, E. Pietriga and C. Appert. (2015). An Evaluation of Interactive Map Comparison Techniques. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2015, pages 3573-3582.]
Honorable mention for [R. Morales González, C. Appert, G. Bailly, and E. Pietriga. (2016). TouchTokens: Guiding Touch Patterns with Passive Tokens. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pages 4189-4202.]
Honorable mention for [H. Romat, N. Henry-Riche, K. Hinckley, B. Lee, C. Appert, and E. Pietriga, and C. Collins. (2019). ActiveInk: (Th)Inking with Data. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019. ACM Press, New York, pages 42:1--42:13]
Best paper + Best doctoral paper [H. Romat, D. Lebout, E. Pietriga, and C. Appert. (2019). Influence of Color and Size of Particles on their Perceived Speed in Node-Link Diagrams. IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019. Springer, Sept 2019, pages 619--637.]
Honorable mention for [F. Di Gioia, E. Brasier, E. Pietriga, and C. Appert. (2022). Investigating the Use of AR Glasses for Content Annotation on Mobile Devices. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, ISS, Article 574 (December 2022), pages 430–447.]

2007-2008

Post-doc at IBM Almaden Research Center.

San Jose, CA, USA - jointly funded by the French ministry for foreign and european affairs (fellowship Lavoisier, EGIDE) and IBM.

Sept 2006 - Aug 2007

Attachée Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche (i.e., assistant professor)

Université Paris-Sud, computer science department

Sept 2003 - Sept 2006

Monitrice de l'Enseignement Supérieur de l'Université Paris-Sud (i.e., assistant professor)

Université Paris-Sud, computer science department

Refereed Papers in International Journals

V. Cavez, C. Appert and E. Pietriga. Spreadsheets on Interactive Surfaces: Breaking through the Grid with the Pen. (2023). ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 31, 2, 16. Pages 1-33.
M. Destandau, C. Appert and E. Pietriga. (2021). S-Paths: Set-Based Visual Exploration of Linked Data Driven by Semantic Paths. Semantic Web Journal (SWJ). 12, 1. Pages 99-116.
H. Romat, C. Appert and E. Pietriga. (2019). Expressive Authoring of Node-Link Diagrams with Graphies, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 27, 4. Pages 2329-2340.
M.-J. Lobo, C. Appert and E. Pietriga. (2019). Animation Plans for Before-and-After Satellite Images. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 25, 2. Pages 1347-1360.
M.-J. Lobo, C. Appert and E. Pietriga. (2017). MapMosaic: dynamic layer compositing for interactive geovisualization. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 31, 9. Pages 1818-1845.
C. Appert, O. Chapuis, E. Pietriga, and M.-J. Lobo. (2015). Reciprocal Drag-and-Drop. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 22, 6, Article 29 (September 2015), 36 pages. (*)
S. Zhai, P.O. Kristensson, C. Appert, T.H. Anderson and X. Cao. (2012). Foundational Issues in Touch-Surface Stroke Gesture Design — An Integrative Review. Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction. 5, 2 (2012), 97-205. (Computing Reviews' Best of 2012 list)

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E. Pietriga, O. Bau and C. Appert. (2010). Representation-Independent In-Place Magnification with Sigma Lenses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 16, 3 (May/June 2010), 455-467.
C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2008). SwingStates: Adding state machines to Java and the Swing toolkit. Journal Software Practice and Experience. 38, 11 (Sep. 2008), 1149-1182.

Refereed Papers in National Journals

C. Appert. (2010). Augmenter la validité des évaluations des applications graphiques interactives. Journal Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI). 29, 1 (Jan. 2010), 11-29.

Refereed Papers in International Conference Proceedings

V. Cavez, C. Letondal, C. Appert, E. Pietriga. (2025) EuterPen: Unleashing Creative Expression in Music Score Writing. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2025. Article 728, Pages 1-16.
C. Dupré, E. Pietriga, O. Gladin, S. Rey, H. Saidi, C. Appert. (2025) Investigating Hand-Bound Pads for AR Input Using Hand-Tracking Only. In Proc. ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 9, Issue 5, Mobile HCI 2025. September 2025. Article MHCI018, Pages 1-25.
V. Cavez, C. Letondal, E. Pietriga, C. Appert. (2024) Challenges of Music Score Writing and the Potentials of Interactive Surfaces. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2024. Article 728, Pages 1-16.
C. Dupré, C. Appert, S. Rey, H. Saidi, E. Pietriga. (2024) TriPad: Touch Input in AR on Ordinary Surfaces with Hand Tracking Only. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2024. May 2024. Article 754, Pages 1-18.
E. Courtoux, C. Appert and O. Chapuis. (2023). SurfAirs: Surface + Mid-air Input for Large Vertical Displays. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023. April 2023, pages 1-15.
F. Di Gioia, E. Brasier, E. Pietriga, and C. Appert. (2022). Investigating the Use of AR Glasses for Content Annotation on Mobile Devices. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, ISS, Article 574 (December 2022), pages 430–447.
E. Brasier, E. Pietriga and C. Appert. (2021). AR-enhanced Widgets for Smartphone-centric Interaction. In Proc. ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2021. Sept 2021, pages 1-12.
E. Courtoux, C. Appert and O. Chapuis. (2021). WallTokens: Surface Tangibles for Vertical Displays. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2021. May 2021, pages 1-13.
E. Brasier, O. Chapuis, N. Ferey, J. Vezien and C. Appert. (2020). ARPads: Mid-air Indirect Input for Augmented Reality. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 20. October 2020, pages 332-343.
H. Romat, E. Pietriga, N. Henry-Riche, K. Hinckley, and C. Appert. (2019). SpaceInk: Making Space for In-Context Annotations. In Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2019. October 2019, pages 871-882.
H. Romat, D. Lebout, E. Pietriga, and C. Appert. (2019). Influence of Color and Size of Particles on their Perceived Speed in Node-Link Diagrams. IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019. Springer, Sept 2019, pages 619--637.
H. Romat, N. Henry-Riche, K. Hinckley, B. Lee, C. Appert, and E. Pietriga, and C. Collins. (2019). ActiveInk: (Th)Inking with Data. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2019. Pages 42:1--42:13.
E. Pietriga, H. Gözükan, C. Appert, M. Destandau, Š. Čebirić, F. Goasdoué and I. Manolescu. (2018). Browsing Linked Data Catalogs with LODAtlas. In Proc. International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, Monterey, CA, USA. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2018. Pages 137-153.
C. Appert, E. Pietriga, E. Bartenlian and R. Morales Gonzalez. (2018). Custom-made Tangible Interfaces with TouchTokens. In Proc. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2018, Grosseto, Italy. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2018, 8 pages.
H. Romat, C. Appert, B. Bach, N. Henry-Riche and E. Pietriga. (2018). Animated Edge Textures in Node-Link Diagrams: a Design Space and Initial Evaluation. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2018. Pages 187:1--187:13. (acceptance rate: 25.8%, 668/2590)
V. Rusňák, C. Appert, O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2018). Designing Coherent Gesture Sets for Multi-scale Navigation on Tabletops. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2018. Pages 142:1-142:12. (acceptance rate: 25.8%, 668/2590)
R. Morales Gonzalez, C. Appert, G. Bailly and E. Pietriga. (2017). Passive yet Expressive TouchTokens. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2017, pages 3741-3745. (acceptance rate: 25%, 600/2400)
E. Pietriga, F. del Campo, A. Ibsen, R. Primet, C. Appert, O. Chapuis, M. Hempel, R. Muñoz, S. Eyheramendy Duerr, A. Jordan, H. Dole. (2016). Exploratory Visualization of Astronomical Data on Ultra-high-resolution Wall Displays, invited paper, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, SPIE 2016. Edinburgh, UK. pages 0W:1-0W:15.
R. Morales Gonzalez, C. Appert, G. Bailly and E. Pietriga. (2016). TouchTokens: Guiding Multi-Touch Patterns with Passive Tokens. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2016, pages 4189-4202. (acceptance rate: 23%, 534/2325)
M.-J. Lobo, E. Pietriga and C. Appert. (2015). An Evaluation of Interactive Map Comparison Techniques. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2015, pages 3573-3582. (acceptance rate: 23%, 494/2150)
H. Olafsdottir and C. Appert. (2014). Multi-Touch Gestures for Discrete and Continuous Control. In Proc. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2014. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2014, pages 177-184. (acceptance rate: 29%, 47/164) (*)
J. Alvina, C. Appert, O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2014). RouteLens: Easy Route Following for Map Applications. In Proc. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2014. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2014, pages 125-128. (acceptance rate: 29%, 47/164) (*)
T. Tsandilas, C. Appert, A. Bezerianos and D. Bonnet. (2014). Coordination of Tilt and Touch in One- and Two-Handed Use. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014. April 2014, pages 2001-2004. (acceptance rate: 23%, 471/2064)
H. Olafsdottir, T. Tsandilas and C. Appert. (2014). Prospective Motor Control on Tabletops: Planning Grasp for Multitouch Interaction. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014. April 2014, pages 2893-2902. (acceptance rate: 23%, 471/2064)
D. Spelmezan, C. Appert, O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2013). Controlling Widgets with one Power-Up Button. In Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2013. October 2013, pages 71-74. (acceptance rate: 20%, 63/317)
D. Spelmezan, C. Appert, O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2013). Side Pressure for Bidirectional Navigation on Small Devices. In Proc. ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2013. May 2013, pages 11-20. (acceptance rate: 23%, 53/227)
D. Bonnet and C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2013). Extending the Vocabulary of Touch Events with ThumbRock. In Proc. Graphics Interface, GI 2013. May 2013, pages 221-228. (acceptance rate: 38%, 16/42)
C. Appert and O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2012). Dwell-and-Spring: Undo for Direct Manipulation. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012. ACM Press, May 2012, pages 1957-1966. (acceptance rate: 23%, 370/1577) (*)
C. Appert and O. Chapuis and E. Pietriga. (2010). High-Precision Magnification Lenses. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010. ACM Press, April 2010, pages 273-282. (acceptance rate: 22%, 296/1346)
C. Appert and O. Bau. (2010). Scale Detection for a priori Gesture Recognition. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010. ACM Press, April 2010, pages 879-882. (acceptance rate: 22%, 296/1346)
C. Appert and S. Zhai. (2009). Using Strokes as Command Shortcuts: Cognitive Benefits and Toolkit Support. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009. ACM Press, April 2009, pages 2289-2298. (acceptance rate: 24.5%, 277/1130) (*)
C. Appert, O. Chapuis and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2008). Evaluation of Pointing Performance on Screen Edges. In Proc. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2008, Napoli, Italy. ACM Press, New York, NY, May 2008, pages 119-126. (acceptance rate: 27%, 32/117)
E. Pietriga and C. Appert. (2008). Sigma Lenses: Focus-Context Transitions Combining Space, Time and Translucence. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2008, pages 1343-1352. (acceptance rate: 22%, 157/714)
E. Pietriga, C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2007). Pointing and Beyond: an Operationalization and Preliminary Evaluation of Multi-scale Searching. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2007, pages 1215-1224. (acceptance rate: 25%, 142/571)
W. Mackay, C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, O. Chapuis, Y. Du, J.D. Fekete and Y. Guiard. (2007). Touchstone: Exploratory Design of Experiments. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2007, pages 1425-1434. (acceptance rate: 25%, 142/571)
C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2006). SwingStates: Adding State Machines to the Swing Toolkit. In Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2006, pages 319-322. (acceptance rate: 23%, 40/174) (*)
C. Appert and J.D. Fekete. (2006). OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation. In Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006, Montréal, Canada. ACM Press, New York, NY, April 2006, pages 21-30. (acceptance rate: 23%, 118/508) (*)
C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (2004). Context matters: Evaluating interaction techniques with the CIS model. In Proc. People and Computers XVIII - Design for Life -, HCI 2004, Leeds, UK. Springer Verlag, Sept. 2004, pages 279-295. (acceptance rate: 36%, 23/63) (*)

Refereed Papers in National Conference Proceedings

D. Bonnet and C. Appert. SAM: The Swiss Army Menu. (2011) In Proc. 23ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2011. ACM Press, 4 pages.
C. Appert, S. Huot, P. Dragicevic and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. FlowStates : Prototypage d'application interactives avec des flots de données et des machines à états. (2009) In Proc. 21ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2009. ACM Press, pages 119-128. Best paper
C. Appert and J.D. Fekete. Naviguer dans des grands arbres avec ControlTree. (2007) In Proc. 19ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2007. ACM Press, Novembre 2007, pages 138-142.
C. Appert and M. Beaudouin-Lafon. (2006) SMCanvas : augmenter la boîte à outils Java Swing pour prototyper des techniques d'interaction avancées. In Proc. 18ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2006. ACM Press, April 2006, pages 99-106. (acceptance rate: 41%, 19/46). Best paper.(*)

Refereed Papers in International Workshops

C. Appert. (2006). How to Model, Evaluate and Generate Interaction Techniques? Doctoral Symposium article. In adjunct Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse, pages 15-18. (*)
C. Appert and J.D. Fekete. (2006). ControlTree: Navigating and Selecting in a Large Tree. Demo In adjunct Proc. ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2006, Montreux, Suisse, pages 47-48.
Y. Guiard, J.D. Fekete, Y. Du, C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and O. Chapuis. (2006). Shakespeare's Complete Works as a Benchmark for Evaluating Multiscale Document-Navigation Techniques. In Workshop BELIV'06, International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'06), Venise, May 2006, 6 pages.

Theses

C. Appert. (2017). From Direct manipulation to Gestures: Moving the Expressive Power from the Displays to the Fingers. Université Paris-Sud (HDR thesis). June 2017, Orsay, France.
C. Appert. (2007). Modélisation, Évaluation et Génération de Techniques d'Interaction. Université Paris-Sud (PhD thesis). May 2007, Orsay, France.

Other Publications (Technical Reports and Dissemination)

E. Brasier, E. Pietriga, A. Bezerianos, O. Chapuis, C. Appert. De-augmenting Visually-Augmented Reality. Report #9494, December 2022. LISN, Université Paris Saclay, France.
E. Pietriga, F. del Campo, A. Ibsen, R. Primet, C. Appert, O. Chapuis, M. Hempel, R. Muñoz, S. Eyheramendy Duerr, A. Jordan, H. Dole, Ultra-high-resolution walls for visualizing very large datasets, SPIE Newsroom, May 2016
C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d'Interaction en Contexte. In Annexes des Actes des 15èmes journées francophones sur l'Interaction Homme Machine, IHM'03. pages 23-25. (*)
C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003). Context Matters: Evaluating Interaction Techniques with the CIS Model. Report #1372, October 2003. LRI, Université Paris-Sud, France.

TouchTokens

TouchTokens are a means to design low-cost tangible interfaces. The technique consists in recognizing multi-touch patterns associated with specific passive tokens that can be made out of any material, when manipulated on any touch-sensitive surface. Implementations of the recognizer (in both TUIO and Android) and vector descriptions of the tokens ready for 3D-printing or laser-cutting are available. Implementations of the recognizer are under the LGPL license.
SwingStates

SwingStates is an extension of the Java Swing toolkit to ease the programming of advanced interaction techniques. SwingStates introduces state machines in the Java language as a control structure to program interaction. State machines can be used with standard Swing widgets to redefine their behavior, or they can be used with the SwingStates powerful canvas to implement advanced interaction techniques. SwingStates is available under the LGPL license (about 13000 lines of code). It is used for teaching Human Computer Interaction at Université Paris Saclay (Licence and Master).
Touchstone

Touchstone is a tool for conducting lab experiments. The design platform allows to define an experiment protocol by exploring different alternatives. It outputs the final protocol as an XML experiment script which refers to experiment components. The run platform allows (i) to program these experiment components as Java classes and (ii) to run the experiment script. TouchStone is available under the BSD license (about 21000 lines of code).
Stroke Shortcuts Toolkit

Stroke Shortcuts Toolkit (SST) is a library to add stroke shortcuts to a Java Swing graphical user interface. It includes (i) the Design Shortcuts environment to define the mappings (stroke, command) for commands of Java Swing applications and (ii) a very simple API to activate these shortcuts in the application. The designer can decide to offer several types of visual clues to make end users able to learn these shortcuts (augmented tooltips, menu preview or strokes sheet). SST also provides an API to easily implement any stroke based interaction by offering high-level events and ways of handling these events (listeners or state machines). SST is available under the LGPL license (about 3000 lines of code).
FlowStates

FlowStates is a toolkit to program advanced interaction techniques which require non standard input (e.g., two different mice that act independently, a joystick, a tablet, etc.). It is built on top of two existing toolkits: SwingStates and ICon. With FlowStates the developer can program interaction logic using state machines like SwingStates does but does not restrict the set of possible input channels to Java AWT standard input (a single couple ). FlowStates offers a a huge power of expression by fully integrating two models for programming interaction (state machines and data flow). FlowStates is available here (about 1500 lines of code).

I gave the talk for all marked (*) articles in the above list.
"Bringing Passive Objects to Life with Your Hands", Journées 2025 du GT Interaction Physique GDR IHM, November 2025.
Interview on the job and training of ux designer for the communication service of Université Paris Saclay, January 2024.
Interview for Science et Vie Junior "Les réseaux de demain", November 2023.
Invited panelist, "Women in XR", ACM Spatial User Interaction 2022, Virtual.
"Avant que la réalité augmentée s'invite dans nos vies...", Unithé ou Café, Inria Saclay, France, October 21, 2021.
"Interacting with Maps", HCI Winter School, Paris Saclay, France, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
"Lowering the cost of transitions between devices", Microsoft Research Faculty Summit '18, Seattle, USA, July 17-18, 2018.
"A panorama of HCI research in France", Symposium CREST '18 (ANR/JST), Paris, November 5, 2018.
"Low-cost Tangible Interaction with TouchTokens", FAB' 14, Paris Saclay, July 13, 2018.
"Reconnaître un pattern de points de contact sur une surface tactile -- Multi-Touch et Machine Learning", French HCI-AI day, Paris (UPMC), March 17, 2017.
"Design d'interaction, du smartphone au mur d'écrans", CPGE du Lycée de l'Essouriau, Les Ulis, December 4, 2014.
"Programming and using gestural interaction", Forum on tactile and gestural interaction, Lille, June 10, 2010.
"Systèmes interactifs et interfaces à entrée 2D directe", Séminaire Sieste de l'ENS Lyon, November 24, 2009.
"Programmer l'interaction avancée", Journée du LRI, June 18, 2009.
"How to model, evaluate and generate interaction techniques", Annual Digiteo Forum, October 2, 2008.
"Stroke Shortcuts for frequent commands: How relevant they are and how to implement them", USER group, IBM Almaden Research Center, August 12, 2008.
"Facilitating Introduction of Novel Interaction Techniques in Everyday Applications", Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), July 29, 2008.
"Évaluation et Génération de Techniques d'Interaction", Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications (ENST), April 30, 2008.
"A Generative approach to GUI design", USER group, IBM Almaden Research Center, September 3, 2007.
"A Generative approach to GUI design", Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto, June 4, 2007.
"How to model, evaluate and generate interaction techniques?", in|situ| Doctoral symposium, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, october 13, 2006.

Research projects

InterPlay (Interacting with Rich Display Ecosystems), funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme PRC, 2022-2026. Participation 30%.
VizGest (Visualizing mid-air gestures), PEPS S2IH, funded by CNRS 2018. Coordinator.
MapMuxing (Multi-dimensional Map Multiplexing), funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), 2014-2018. Participation 25%.
MDGest (MultiDimensional Gestures), funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme JCJC, 2011-2014. Coordinator. Participation 80%.
HolyRisk (Scientific Uncertainty and Food Risk Regulation), funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme BLANC, 2009-2013. Participation 15%.
MLSN (Multi-Level Social Networks), funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), 2009-2012. Participation 10%.

Teaching projects

Pedagogical project at Université Paris-Sud. "Plateforme pédagogique pour l’enseignement de l’Interaction Homme-Machine". With Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Anastasia Bezerianos.

PhD students

María Jesús Lobo Günther, title: Interactive Transitions for Map Application, defended on Dec. 5 2017, supervisors: Emmanuel Pietriga and Caroline Appert
Rafael Morales González, title: Rich Multi-Touch Input with Passive Tokens, defended on Oct. 9 2017, supervisors: Emmanuel Pietriga, Gilles Bailly and Caroline Appert
Hugo Romat, title: From data exploration to presentation : designing new systems and interaction techniques to enhance the sense-making process, defended on Oct. 3 2019, CIFRE thesis in collaboration with TKM, supervisors: Christophe Lecante, Emmanuel Pietriga and Caroline Appert
Eugénie Brasier, title: Using Augmented Reality in Everyday Life, defended on Dec. 13 2021, supervisor: Caroline Appert - Eugénie won the 2nd prize at the contest "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes de Paris-Saclay": watch her performance.
Emmanuel Courtoux, title: Tangible Collaborative Interaction for Wall-sized Displays, defended on Apr. 11 2023, supervisors: Olivier Chapuis and Caroline Appert
Vincent Cavez, title: Post-WIMP Interaction Techniques for Data Wrangling, supervisors: Emmanuel Pietriga and Caroline Appert
Camille Dupré, title: Heterogeneous Content Display and Manipulation in Mixed Reality, CIFRE thesis in collaboration with Berger-Levrault, supervisors: Houssem Saidi, Stéphanie Rey, Emmanuel Pietriga and Caroline Appert
Mengfei Gao, title: Augmented Reality as a Means to Improve Web Browsing on Handheld Devices, supervisors: Emmanuel Pietriga and Caroline Appert

Post docs

Daniel Spelmezan, in collaboration with Olivier Chapuis and Emmanuel Pietriga - [sept 2011 - may 2013]
Halla Olafsdottir, in collaboration with Theophanis Tsandilas - [jan 2013 - dec 2013]
Vit Rusnak, in collaboration with Olivier Chapuis and Emmanuel Pietriga - [jan 2017 - dec 2017]
Arthur Fages, in collaboration with Olivier Chapuis - [june 2023 - dec 2024]

Master students

Period	Title	Student	Level
jun 2009 - aug 2009	"Accélérer l'exécution des gestes"	Roven Gabriel	Pre-master student
mar 2011 - sept 2011	"Commandes gestuelles multi-dimensionnelles"	David Bonnet	Master student 2nd year
jan 2013 - mar 2013	"Graphical interaction techniques for undo and redo"	María Jesús Lobo Günther	Master student 1st year
apr 2013 - aug 2013	"Performance gestuelle et anatomie"	Stephan Delarue	Master student 2nd year
mar 2013 - aug 2013	"Focus+Context representation and path following"	Jessalyn Alvina	Master student 2nd year
mar 2014 - aug 2014	"Detecting and Simplifying Users’ Routines on Mobile Devices"	Athanasios Taousakos	Master student 2nd year
may 2015 - july 2015	"Interactive Visualization of Training Sets for Gesture-based Interfaces"	Hae Jin Song	Pre-Master student
may 2015 - july 2015	"Getting into the Web of Data through the Time dimension"	Mengying Du	Master student 1st year
may 2016 - aug 2016	"{Indirect, Direct}-surface gestures for wall-sized displays"	Dylan Lebout	Master student 1st year
apr 2017 - sep 2017	Interactive Visualization for the Web of Data	Dylan Lebout	Master student 2nd year
may 2017 - aug 2017	Tools for Customizing Tangible Interfaces	Éléonore Bartenlian	Master student 1st year
june 2018 - july 2018	Tangibles for Collaborative Interaction	Clément Sauvard	Master student 1st year
may 2018 - sept 2018	Learning Gestural and Tangible Interactions for Ubiquitous Computing	Eugénie Brasier	Master student 2nd year
jan 2019 - mar 2019	Interaction techniques with a Data Glove	Lukas Svicarovic Rodríguez	Pre-Master student
may 2019 - sept 2019	Tangibles for Vertical Displays	Emmanuel Courtoux	Master student 2nd year
mar 2020 - july 2020	Extending Copy-and-paste Interactions on Mobile Devices with Offscreen Multi-Clipboards	Maya Gawinowski	Pre-Master student
mar 2021 - sept 2021	AR HMD to enhance Interaction with Handheld Devices	Francesco Riccardo di Gioia	Master student 2nd year
apr 2021 - july 2021	Post-WIMP interaction techniques for Data Wrangling	Théo Imbert	École Polytechnique 3rd year
mar 2022 - sept 2022	Browsing the Web with an AR-enhanced Phone	Yang (Sophie) Chen	Master student 2nd year
mar 2022 - sept 2022	AR-enhanced Tangibles for Remote Interaction with Wall-sized Displays	Camille Dupré	Master student 2nd year
may 2023 - july 2023	De-augmenting Augmented Reality	Noémie Hanus	Master student 1st year
mar 2024 - aug 2024	Itinerary-driven Interaction for Map Navigation	Noémie Hanus	Master student 2nd year
mar 2024 - aug 2024	A Hand-centric Approach to the Recognition of Object Manipulation in AR	Julien Berry	Master student 2nd year
may 2024 - july 2024	Interacting with Distant Displays in a Co-located Collaborative Setting	Abel Henry-Lapassat	Master student 1st year

Co-chair of Communications of the ACM - Research Highlights
Member of editorial board for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)

Program committees

In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, conferences are considered the primary method of publication. The ACM CHI and UIST conferences are particularly selective (selection rate ranges from 15-25%) and are considered journal level work by the ACM/SIGCHI. Papers have at least five independent reviews, including two senior associate chairs, with a face-to-face program committee and a rebuttal process.

ACM CHI is the flagship conference of our domain. The two Technical Program co-chairs manage the whole set of technical tracks (14 tracks in 2022). The main papers track receive more than 2500 submissions per year. The overall papers submission process is chaired by 2 to 3 papers co-chairs. Submissions are then distributed across ~15 subcommittees that handle between 100 and 400 papers each. A subcommittee is usually chaired by 2 subcommittee co-chairs.

Role	Conference	Year
Technical Program co-chair	ACM CHI	2022
Papers co-chair	ACM CHI	2017
Subcommittee co-chair	ACM CHI	2015, 2016, 2021
Voting member	ACM CHI Steering Committee	2019-
Doctoral Consortium co-chair	ACM EICS	2018
Associate chair	ACM CHI	2012, 2013, 2020, 2025, 2026
Associate chair	ACM UIST	2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2023
Associate chair	ACM Mobile HCI	2015
Associate chair	ACM ISS	2020
Associate chair	IFIP Interact	2013
Associate chair	ACM IUI	2009
Associate Chair	ACM EICS Tech notes track	2018, 2019
Associate Chair	IHM	2018
Associate chair	ACM MobiSys (Workshop)	2015
Doctoral Consortium panel member	IHM	2018
Committee Member	ACM UIST (Posters track)	2007

Selection, Evaluation and Scientific Committees

National

Role	Title	Year
Member	COERLE - Comité opérationnel d'évaluation des risques légaux et éthiques (i.e., Ethical Review Board for Inria)	2024-2025
President	ANR - CES Interaction, Robotique (phases 1 and 2)	2019
Vice president	ANR - CES Interaction, Robotique (phases 1 and 2)	2017, 2018
Jury member	ANR - CES Contenus, connaissances, interactions (phases 1 and 2)	2014, 2015
Jury member	ANR - SIMI2: Blancs, Blancs internationaux, JCJC	2013
Member	CSI - INS2I (Scientific Board for INS2I CNRS Institute)	2018-2023

ANR stands for National Research Agency.

Local

Role	Title	Year
Head	Pôle B - École Doctorale STIC Paris Saclay	2023-
Deputy head	Pôle 3 - École Doctorale STIC Paris Saclay	2018-2020
Jury Member	Conseil de l'École Doctorale STIC Paris Saclay	2018-
Board Member	Pôle B (formerly Pôle 3) - École Doctorale STIC Paris Saclay	2018-2023
Member	CCSU section 27	2014-2018

Hiring and PhD/HdR Committees

Role	Title	Year
Jury member	CR Hiring committee "Jury d'admission" (CNRS INS2I) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Paris Saclay - LISN) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Paris Sud - LIMSI) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Technologique Troyes - Tech-CICO) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Paris Sud - LRI) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Paris Sud - LRI) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Toulouse III - IRIT) MCF Hiring committee (Univ. Lille I - LIFL)	2020, 2023, 2024 2024 2020 2019 2018 2015 2012 2011
Habilitation committee - president	Sarah Fdili Alaoui Marcos Serrano	2023 2018
Habilitation committee - reviewer	Sylvain Malacria Célia Martinie	2023 2020
PhD committee - examiner	Pierrick Uro Yuan Chen Morgane Koval Nicole Ke Chen Pong Marion Dumont Antoine Lhuillier Maxime Guillon Hanaë Rateau Aurélie Cohé	2025 2024 2024 2020 2018 2017 2017 2017 2012
PhD committee - president	Marine Djaffardy Mohammad Alaul Islam Hong Jiay Elizabeth Walton Mickaël Serano Rajkumar Darbar Shu-Yuan Hsueh Yujiro Okuya Julien Gori	2023 2023 2023 2022 2021 2021 2020 2019 2018
PhD committee - reviewer	Vincent Lambert Adnane Guettaf Gaëlle Richer Juliette Rambourg	2025 2022 2019 2018

MCF stands for Assistant Professor.

Other

Role	Title	Year
Committee member	TOCHI EiC Search Committee	2018
Jury member	Gilles Kahn Thesis Prize	2008, 2009, 2010

Books

ACM Books

Journals

Conferences

IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2021
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2019
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2017
EuroVis EG/VGTC Conference on Data Visualization, 2016
ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS, formerly known as ITS), 2015, 2016
Conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM), 2007, 2010, 2013, 2015
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS), 2013, 2014, 2019
Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2012, 2017
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020
ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2004

Funding Agencies

ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)
ERC (European Research Council)

Dagstuhl Seminar 'Visualizing Data on Non-Flat, Non-Rectangular Displays' (25082), February, 2025.
Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Interaction Homme-Machine. September, 2024. RJC-IHM'24, Oléron, France. Class "How to design an experimental study".
SigCHI Paris Local Chapter - officer: Treasurer 2015-2017, Vice Chair 2017-2019
Fête de la Science. 2017. Workshop animation. "Interagir avec des "vrais" objets sur des écrans tactiles".
Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Interaction Homme-Machine. June, 17-20, 2013. RJC-IHM'13, Lyon, France. Animation of "reviewing process" workshop.
ACM SigCHI Paris VideoShowcase, July, 7, 2011. Espace Pompidou, Paris, France. Coordination of the event. Watch the video.
Fête de la Science, 2009 and 2010. Coordination of the event for LRI.
Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Interaction Homme-Machine. October, 20-22, 2004. RJC-IHM'04, Lacanau, France.
workshops iMuseum (June, 17-18, 2005, Paris and October, 23, 2005, Seattle)
workshop autoGraf (May, 13, 2006, Paris)

Period	Number of hours	Level
Experimental Design and Analysis
2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020	22hCM website	Master Informatique Paris Saclay
Data Visualization
2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019	18hTD website	3rd year (3A) École Polytechnique
Evaluating Interactive Systems
2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016	intro module (22hCM) advanced module (22hCM)	1st+2nd year Master Human-Computer Interaction and Design 2nd year Master speciality Interaction
2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013	25hCM + 25hTD	1st year Master Human-Computer Interaction and Design
Design project in Human-Computer Interaction
2014-2015	25hTD	1st year Master Human-Computer Interaction and Design
Introduction aux Systèmes Interactifs
2011-2012	12hTD	2nd year Master Computer Science
2010-2011	6hCM	2nd year Master Computer Science
2009-2010	3hCM	2nd year Master Computer Science
2006-2007	24hTD	1st year Master Computer Science
2003-2004	33hTD	1st year Master Computer Science
Informatique Graphique
2006-2007 2005-2006	10hCM + 15hTD	2nd year Master "Compétences Complémentaires en Informatique" (i.e. Complementary skills in computer science)
Programmation, Algorithmique et Complexité
2008-2009 2006-2007	7.5hCM + 33hTD	3rd year Licence Computer Science
2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004	33hTD	3rd year Licence Computer Science
Coordination
2012-2013	Internship coordinator for all students	2nd year Master Computer Science
2011-2012	Co-head of the Master Internship coordinator for all students	2nd year Master Computer Science

Current position

Senior research scientist in Human Computer Interaction at LISN in the ILDA team

Education

HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in computer science at Université Paris-Sud

Ph.D. in computer science at Université Paris-Sud

DEA (equivalent to a M.Sc.) in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud

Awards

Experience