The HCI Sorbonne group exists since October 2016. We are a young, dynamic group of people working on human computer interaction (HCI) problems within the multidisciplinary Interaction team of the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) which is part of the Sorbonne Université and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
HCI is a multidisciplinary research field at the intersection between computer science, psychology, design, and engineering. Being embedded in a larger multidisciplinary lab puts us in a favorable position to collaborate in areas relevant to HCI such as smart workspaces, interactive robotics, or interactive machine learning.
The goal of the HCI group is to understand how people perceive and interact with information and technologies and how to augment these technologies to increase users’ expertise or to generally support their cognition. For more information, see our research page.
Are you eager to expand your knowledge, engage with leading experts, and connect with peers from around the world?
Join us for CIX ’25, a week-long intensive program designed to provide in-depth training and interdisciplinary perspectives […]
We are pleased to announce that we are hosting a talk by Daniel Pargman on Monday, January 13 at 11:00 AM.
Title
The chief source of problems are solutions: how to teach engineering students about complexity […]
Paolo Grigis is a PhD student at University Bozen-Bolzano working on the use of LLM in creative writing. Paolo presented his work published at AVI’24 and current projects in the field.
We are pleased to announced that Thursday, Oct. 24, 11:00PM (room 55-56-103), we are hosting a talk by Wen-Jie Tseng from Darmstadt University
Title: Embodied in Two Places: Investigating Space and Place Conflicts in Virtual Reality
Abstract: Embodied […]
💡Quand la science rencontre le hackathon, ça donne des étincelles ! 🔥
Le groupe de travail IHM santé de l’AFIHM a tenté une expérience le 30/09 et le 01/10 … osée ? innovante ? carrément géniale […]
We are pleased to announce that tomorrow, Thursday, July 11 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, we will be hosting a talk by Rachel Tunis, a visiting researcher from the School of Information at UT […]
Last week, we participated in the Eurohaptics 2024 conference held in Lille, France.
👉 Event website : https://eurohaptics.org/ehc2024/
An opportunity for us to explore the latest tactile and haptic technologies, and discuss the latest publications with […]
Title: Cognitive and affective dimensions of pedestrian movement in cities
Abstract: Navigation is complex cognitive process that recruits perceptual cognitive and affective processes. Pedestrian navigation is particularly interesting because our choices have clear physical implications (effort, […]
The paraCHI event was held on 16-17 May in Paris at the Inria Paris Research center. Solene Lambert, a member of HCI Sorbonne, lead the organisation of a very […]
We have two papers accepted at the ACM conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). The two papers addresses investigates interactive machine teaching in two different context: 1) the use interactive machine teaching for arm […]
We are thrilled to announce that the HCI Sorbonne group will present 2 posters, 5 demos and 3 papers at IHM2024.
Papers
Étude de l’impact des sensibilités sensorielles visuelles et haptiques sur la détection d’illusions visuo-haptiques […]
We have the pleasure to announce that Eya Jaafar has received the 2023 award for innovation in pedagogy from the French Academy of Surgery – Prix de l’Innovation Pédagogique 2023 de l’Academie de Chirurgie.
Congratulations!
Who: Cedric Honnet (MIT Media Lab)
When: May 25, 11:00AM
Where: ISIR Lab, H20
Title: Sensitive Human-Computer Interactions
Abstract: This talk will be about 3 open source sensing devices and wearable projects:
– HIVE Tracker: […]
In France, the Habilitation is a step in the research career of junior/intermediate researchers. It gives candidates the right to direct a doctoral thesis independently (instead of co-directions only). It also allows them to apply […]
website of the PEPR ENSEMBLE: http://pepr-ensemble.fr
Announcement of the priority themes – 27 March 2023
Submission of Ph.D. projects – 11 April, 2023
Pre-selection of candidates – 12 May, 2023
Candidates interviews – 1-2 June, 2023
Start of […]
The HCI Sorbonne group have presenteed three papers at the French conference in Human-Computer Interacion (IHM’23 https://ihm2023.afihm.org):
Sungeelee, Loriette, Sigaud, Caramiaux. Co-Apprentissage Humain-Machine: Cas d’Étude en Acquisition de Compétences Motrices. IHM’23, article
https://hal.science/IHM-2023/hal-04014981v1
Ferrier-Barbut, Avellino, Vitrani, […]
Théo Jourdan and Baptiste Caramiaux present their two papers at NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) 2023 respectively called:
– “Machine Learning for Musical Expression: A Systematic Literature Review”
– “Culture and Politics of Machine Learning in […]
Who: Valentin Bauer (Université Paris-Saclay)
Where: Room H20 ISIR
When: February 9th, 11:00AM
Title: Exploring Sensory and Extended Reality Mediation Approaches with Autistic Children: Example of Magic Bubbles
Bio: Valentin is a PhD candidate […]
Flavien Lebrun, supervised by Gilles Bailly and Sinan Haliyo, will defend his thesis entitled “Study of Visuo-Haptic Illusions in Virtual Reality: Understanding and Predicting Illusion Detection” on December 14, 2022.
Oleksandra Vereschak invites you all to a research seminar on Human-AI Collaboration on Tue, Dec 13, 2022. It will consist of 4 talks around the topics of how people trust and make decisions with Artificial […]
Oleksandra Vereschak, supervised by Gilles Bailly and Baptiste Caramiaux, will defend her thesis entitled “Understanding Human-AI Trust in the Context of Decision Making through the Lenses of Academia and Industry: Definitions, Factors, and Evaluation” on […]
Benoît Geslain, supervised by Gilles Bailly and Sinan Haliyo, will defend his thesis entitled “Visuo-haptic Illusions in Virtual Reality Design and Learning” on December 07, 2022.
Jianyong Xue joined the team of Interactions Multi-Échelles as a new post-doc in the ISIR lab of Sorbonne Université, on the topic of research of computational models for studying HCI in learning and decision-making with […]
Théo Jourdan is now part of the ANR-funded project ARCOL “Interactive Reinforcement Co-Learning” led by Baptiste Caramiaux. He is now working on the use of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to support learning and exploration in […]
Who: Sebastien Lallé (Sorbonne Université – LIP6)
Where: Room 304, ISIR
When: June 30, 11:00AM
Title: Eye-tracking for User-Adaptive Visualizations
Abstract: Information visualization (InfoVis) is a thriving area of research that takes advantage of the […]
Fatemeh Alizadeh, Dominik Pins and Oleksandra Vereschak co-organized ECSCW2022 Workshop on appropriate trust in AI with the support of their suporvisors Gunnar Stevens, Gilles Bailly, and Baptiste Caramiaux.
Check out the panel […]
Who: Antti Oulasvirta
Where: Room 304, ISIR
When: June 21, 10:00 AM
Title: Computational Rationality as a theory of interaction
Abstract: How do people interact with computers? This fundamental question was asked by Card, […]
Téo Sanchez, supervised by Baptiste Caramiaux and Wendy E. Mackay, will defend his thesis entitled “Interactive Machine Teaching with and for novices” on June 20, 2022.
Link to the live stream: [here]
Link to […]
Oleksandra Vereschak, PhD student, presented a working paper “What AI Practitioners Say about Human-AI Trust: Its Role, Importance, and Factors That Affect It” with permanent researchers Gilles Bailly and Baptiste Caramiaux at HHAI2022, […]
Baptiste Caramiaux and Téo Sanchez are invited to present their research at the Human-Computer Partnerships Symposium organized by Wendy Makay at Collège de France.
Téo Sanchez‘s talk “Interactive Machine Teaching: investigating how novice users teach machines” […]
Assisting CHI 2022 virtually? Join us for a viewing party of the welcome & opening keynote session! We will start by taking an hour to socialize over drinks and snack, then watch together the […]
Congratulations to Miguel Renom, Baptiste Caramiaux, and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon for the CHI2022 Honorable Mention Award for their paper on “Exploring Technical Reasoning in Digital Tool Use” !
Benoit Geslain, Simon Besga, Flavien Lebrun, and Gilles Bailly present their paper at IHM’22 called “Généralisation de la Fonction de Redirection de la Main en Réalité Virtuelle“. Congratulations on the publication!
Téo Sanchez, PhD student, together with permanent researcher Baptiste Caramiaux and collaborators Pierre Thiel and Wendy Mackay got awarded with Best Paper Award for their paper “Deep Learning Uncertainty in Machine Teaching” published at […]
Gilles Bailly with his collaborators Mehdi Khamassi and Benoît Girard publish “Computational Model of the Transition from Novice to Expert Interaction Techniques” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Congratulations on the publication!
PhD student Clara Rigaud presents her thesis work at TEI’22, check it out: From the Makerspace to the Web: Creating Knowledge Resources from Fabrication Activities ! Congratulations on the publication !
Benoît Geslain, PhD student, presents his paper “Visuo-haptic Illusions for Motor-Skill Acquisition in Virtual Reality” done with Gilles Bailly, Sinan Haliyo, and Corentin Duboc at ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2021. Congratulations, keep the […]
Oleksandra Vereschak, PhD student, together with permanent researchers Gilles Bailly and Baptiste Caramiaux got awarded with Honorable Mention for their paper “How to Evaluate Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making? A Survey of Empirical Methodologies” published […]
Exciting, our team and alumni present 4 papers at CSCW2021, congratulations to you all!
“Surgical Video Summarization: Multifarious Uses, Summarization Process and Ad-Hoc Coordination” by Ignacio Avellino, Sheida Nozari, Geoffroy Canlorbe, Yvonne Jansen
“How […]
Elodie Bouzbib, supervised by Gilles Bailly and Pascal Frey, will defend her thesis entitled “Robotised Tangible User Interface for Multimodal Interactions in VR: Anticipating Intentions to Physically Encounter the User” on Oct 20, 2021.
Paper and demo about Marcelle, a toolkit to compose Interactive Machine Learning workflows accepted to UIST2021. Congratulations to Jules Françoise, Baptiste Caramiaux, Téo Sanchez !
Play around with Marcelle: marcelle.dev
Check out “Marcelle: Composing Interactive Machine […]
We are continuously looking for excellent interns, PhD students, Postdocs and engineers in the following areas:
HCI & Cognitive Neurosciences: User modelling; Cognitive control; Skill acquisition; Role of practice; Decision-making; Behavioral change; Cognitive bais; Computational Rationality
HCI […]
Flavien Lebrun, PhD student, won IFIP TC13 Pioneers’ Award for Best Doctoral Student Paper for the paper: “A Trajectory Model for Desktop-Scale Hand Redirection in Virtual Reality” (Interact’21) with Gilles Bailly and Sinan Haliyo.
Springer […]
Mon June 7th @ 10:50 am CEST
Our PhD student Elodie Bouzbib presents her work at the 1st edition of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Day (IHM IG RV 2021). Watch the presentation […]
Tuesday 25 10:30 – 12:00
Eléonore Ferrier-Barbut and Ignacio Avellino will lead a discussion around social science methodologies, as part of the Surgical Cockpit weekly meeting. We will have two renowned guest speakers:
• Caroline […]
Our alumni and current members of the team present 6 papers at CHI2021 this year, we are so proud!
Our alumna Emeline Brulé and permanent researcher Gilles Bailly got awarded with Honorable Mention at CHI 2021 for their paper “Beyond 3D printers”: Understanding Digital Fabrication Practices for the Education of Visually […]
Interacting with a remote mentor while performing surgery.
More information here: https://hci.isir.upmc.fr/jobs/
Vaynee Sungeelee is joining the group as PhD Student working on Interactive Reinforcement Learning applied to Movement Learning. Her PhD is part of the ANR-funded project ARCOL “Interactive Reinforcement Co-Learning” led by Baptiste Caramiaux.
Ignacio Avellino is now part of Sorbonne Université (ISIR lab). He is working on surgical telementoring.
More information: http://www.ignacioavellino.com
Using Interactive Reinforcement Learning to support movement Skill Acquisition in Music and Rehabilitation
More information here
CoVR is a robotic interface that provides large force-feedback to the users in Virtual Reality. It consists of a XY-Cartesian robot mounted over the ceiling, which moves accordingly with the users’ intentions, in order to […]
Baptiste Caramiaux is now part of Sorbonne Université (ISIR lab). He is conducting research in Human-Centred Machine Learning, at the intersection of Human-Machine Interaction and Machine Learning. More information: https://baptistecaramiaux.com
Marc Teyssier, supervised by Eric Lecolinet, Gilles Bailly, and Catherine Pelachaud, will defend his thesis entitled “Anthropomorphic Devices for Affective Touch Communication” on Feb 6, 2020.
Title: Machine Learning for rehabilitation: Challenges and opportunities
When: January 30th, 11:00 AM.
Where: Room H20, ISIR Lab, Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu
Speaker: Crina Grosan
Abstract: An increasing number of people of all ages now use IT for […]
Title: Automatic Visual Censoring: from Science-Fiction to Reality
Who: Lonni Besançon
Where: Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu, Room H20 (Pyramid)
When: November, 15. 16:00
Abstract: We present the first empirical study on using color manipulation and stylization to make surgery […]
Title: A computational approach
to modelling gestural interactions
of the upper-limb on planar surfaces.
When / Where: July 4, 11:00AM; Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu, ISIR Lab, Room H20
Speaker: Antoine Loriette
Abstract: There are many compelling […]
Title: The Effects of the Design of Mobile Security Notifications and Mobile App Usability on Users’ Security Perceptions
When : June 25, 3:00PM
Where: Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, ISIR Lab, Room 304. More information
Abstract: The […]
Title: Designing Personalized User Interfaces
When: June 20, 2:30PM
Where: Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, ISIR Lab, Room H20. More information
Abstract: There is no such thing as an average user. Users bring their own […]
Title: Social HMDs: Designing Mixed Reality Technology to Fit into the Social Fabric of our Daily Lives
Speaker: Jan Gugenheimer
When – Where: Sorbonne Université, Room 304. Tuesday, June 4th.
Abstract:Technological advancements in the fields […]
Title: Haptic Computing: Software tools that help people create haptic experiences
Speaker: Oliver Schneider
When / Where: Tuesday 14 May, 2pm, Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, Room 304
Abstract: Haptic technology engages users’ sense of touch by providing them with physical feedback. […]
Our group presents three articles at this year’s CHI conference in Glasgow, UK:
Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses by Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew […]
Title : Brain-Computer Interface : Learn how to use it and use it to learn.
Where: Room H20, ISIR, Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu,
When: March 27, 2019 à 10:00AM
Who: Camille Jeunet
Host: Gilles Bailly
Language: English
Abstract : […]
Experiments on alternative locomotion techniques for micro-robots
Where: Room 304 (Campus Jussieu)
When: 2:00PM
Host: Nicolas Bredeche
In this informal talk I will describe some experiments on alternative
methods of locomotion for micro or macro objects not using wheels or
other […]
When: December 12th, 10AM
Where: Room H20, Pyramide (ISIR), Campus Jussieu, Sorbonne Université
Title: Toward Highly Reconfigurable Interactive Devices
Abstract: The static shape of computers is the bottleneck of today’s interactive systems. I argue that we need shape-changing computers that […]
Thursday 25/10
Mitigating the Attraction Effect with Visualizations
Evanthia Dimara, Gilles Bailly, Anastasia Bezerianos, and Steven Franconeri
Session: Perception & Cognition 2
Abstract
Human decisions are prone to biases, and this is no less […]
Wednesday 24/10
Best Paper Award ?
Caractérisation de la transition entre les menus et les raccourcis claviers
Gilles Bailly, Emmanouil Giannisakis, Marion Morel, Catherine Achard
Session: Adapter, s’adapter
Abstract
This paper aims at better […]
When: October 19th, 2018, 9:00 AM
Where: Paris Telecom
Title: Understanding the experiences of schooling of visually impaired children: A French ethnographic and design inquiry.
Jury:
Madeleine Akrich, DR, CSI, Mines ParisTech, CNRS i3, PSL University (rapporteur)
Gilles Bailly, CR […]
When: July 16th, 11:00 AM
Where: Sorbonne Université (Campus Jussieu), ISIR Lab (Pyramid), Room H20 (with air-conditioning)
Title: Machine Learning and Interpretation of Human Interactions from Mobile and Mixed Reality Systems
Speaker: Vir Phoha (Professor at Syracuse […]
EICS 2018 is the tenth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. The event is co-organized by Yvonne Jansen (CNRS/UPMC, technical program chair) together with Emmanuel Pietriga (Inria, general chair) and […]
When: Wednesday, May 30th, 11:00 AM
Where: Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu, Room 211 (second floor) Tower 55-65
Title: WRiST: Wearables for Rich, Subtle, and Transient Interactions in Ubiquitous Environments
Speaker: Edward Lank
Host: Gilles Bailly
Abstract: Modern personal computing devices – tablets, smartphones, […]
When: May 16th, 2018, 11:00 AM
Where: Sorbonne Université, Campus Jussieu, Pyramid H20.
Title: Augmenting Touch Expressivity to Improve the Touch Modality
Abstract: During the last decades, touch surfaces have become more and more ubiquitous. Whether on tablets, […]
Tiffany Wun from the iLab at the University of Calgary (Canada) joins the group for 3 months.
This year the HCI Sorbonne group presents 3 articles at CHI 2018 in Montréal:
Yvonne Jansen and Kasper Hornbæk. How Relevant are Incidental Power Poses for HCI? (Best Paper Award)
Emeline Brulé, Gilles Bailly. Taking […]
When: March 30th, 2018, 14:00AM
Where: ISIR Lab, Room 211 (Tower 55-65)
Title: Implicit and explicit Statistical Learning during the Analysis of Visual Scenes: Evidence form Contextual Cueing
Speaker: Annabelle Goujon
When: March 15th, 2018, 2:00PM
Where: Sorbonne Uni, towers 65/66 – room 304 (3rd floor)
Title: Accessible interactive graphics for visually impaired users
Speaker: Christophe Jouffrais
Abstract: STEM is an American acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. These four disciplines rely on graphical […]
Jingjing Xie and Lucas Rodrigues, two M.Sc. students from University Paris-Saclay join the group as interns for 6 months to prepare their Master theses.
Our HCI lecture starts January 30th.
When: Dec 20th, 2017, 11:00AM
Where: ISIR Lab, Room H20
Title: Vocal explorations in HCI
Abstract: In my work at the Opera of the Future group I build tools and experiences to explore the relationship […]
When: Dec 13th, 2017, 11:00AM
Where: UPMC, towers 65/66 – room 304 (3rd floor)
Title: “What Neuroscience taught me about Robotics”
Abstract: I have been trying to build autonomous real-time intelligent systems for more than […]
See our summer internships
UEIS 2017 is the first International Symposium on User Expertise and Interactive Systems. UEIS is a place where researchers and practitioners from Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Experimental psychology discuss the latest trends in command selection and user expertise on PCs, tablets, […]
Title: Remote collaboration across large interactive spaces
Where: ISIR Lab, Room H20
When: June 14, 10:00AM
Abstract: In my thesis, I study communication for remote collaboration across wall-sized displays, a technology that allows two collaborators to […]
Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations
The workshop is organized by Trevor Hogan, Uta Hinrichs, Yvonne Jansen, Samuel Huron, Pauline Gourlet, Eva Hornecker, and Bettina Nissen.
See the workshop website for more information.
Title: Interaction techniques for 3D audio production and mixing
Where: ISIR Lab, Room H20
When: May 31, 4:00PM
Abstract: There has been a significant interest in providing immersive listening experiences for a variety of applications, and […]
L’Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) et l’Association Francophone d’Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM) avec le soutien du Labex SMART organisent la troisième journée IHM et IA.
Quand: March 17, 2017
Où: […]
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (Université Paris-Sud – LRI) is the next invited speaker of the colloquium in computer science of UPMC Sorbonne University.
Title: Interfaces Homme-Machine : Unifier les Principes pour Diversifier […]
Following the January 2017 call for collaborative projects within the SMART labex, our proposal for SAHMI – Situated Analysis of Human-Machine Interaction in Smart Environments was accepted. The project involves researchers from ISIR, the
Title: Coupling Motion and Perception for Haptic Interfaces
Where: Room H20, ISIR, UPMC
When: January 17, 2017, 11:00AM
Paul is PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science in Copenhagen, with Kasper Hornbæk.
His research topics currently are eTextiles […]
Emeline Brule is the winner of the T-Shirt Design Contest
IconHK: Using Toolbar buttons Icons to Communicate Keyboard Shortcuts
with Emmanouil Giannisaki, Gilles Bailly, Sylvain Malacria and Fanny Chevalier.
Passive […]
