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HASAMé will design new Human Computer Interactions (HCI) that take benefit of a mixed stimulation based on texture and button click simulations. We will also design back layers to the surfaces that can modify its ultrasonic behaviour to match the needs of the application. Finally, HASAMé will deve

Novel display technologies such as wall-sized displays, very large tabletops, and headsets for Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality make it possible to redesign workspaces for more flexibility and efficiency. The goal of the project is to study rich display environments from a human computer interac

STRAD aims at perfectly achieving, in a timely manner, a work signed by a renowned street artist on a high-rise building. Drones have been used for artistic purposes for less than a decade. The Paintcopter robot developed at ETHZ for spray-painting by drone has a tolerance of 5 cm and 5 deg with res

Affordances are action opportunities directly perceived by an agent to interact with its environment. The concept is gaining interest in robotics, focusing on the potential interactions of the robot with objects rather than the sole physical properties of the environment. In this project, we aim to

This project is at the crossroad of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), ergonomics and programmable soft materials, with a connection to interactive arts. Its objective is to enrich user experience with the sense of touch through new tactile shape-changing interfaces, both for enabling new interaction

Virtual Reality (VR) has been gaining increasing interest in recent years in the consumer market, with impactful advances in headsets, controllers, and the visual and audio renderings. However, a truly successful and complete VR experience relies on using all the sensory modalities and providing the

More than ever, with the increasing use of online video-conferencing solutions in daily professional interactions, public speaking skills are becoming crucial. The aim of this project is to obtain better insights into the best approaches allowing the practice of public speaking skills with technolog

Based on the growing need for micro-nanorobots identified in European Strategic Research Agenda 2014-2020, the fabrication and development of nanoscaled devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) that use nanomaterials require nanorobotics to achieve precise techniques for positioning, sensing

All optical numerical simulations based on stochastic methods are subject to intrinsic noise due to mathematical variance. Currently, denoising techniques generate artefacts and loss of detail. For predictive and reliable simulations essential for research and industry, all physical laws must be res

Interacting with space is a constant challenge for Visually Impaired People (VIP) since spatial information in Humans is typically provided by vision. Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) have been promising Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) to assist VIP. They re-code missing visual information as stim

In order to enhance human-machine interaction, usual metrics include questionnaires and performance measures which do not allow for a continuous and online assessment of the quality of interaction, nor for a direct cognitive state monitoring of the human operator. In recent years, the development of

Collaborative robots (cobots), are designed to perform tasks by complementing or even increasing the physical capabilities of human operators. Controlling cobots in an adaptive and safe manner, taking into account the dynamical model of the robot-human-environment system remains a challenge. In thi

The Optobots Projects aims to develop a novel family of microrobots capable of moving in a liquid medium to perform tasks in interaction with biological samples in a Petri dish. These optobots, with dimensions around 10 micrometers, are actuated by the principle of optical tweezers, through the cont

Visualizations are commonly used to summarize complex data, illustrate problems and solutions, tell stories over data, or shape public attitudes. Unfortunately, dominant visualization systems largely target scientists and data-analysis tasks and thus fail to support communication purposes. This proj

For patients with low vision, visual impairments noncorrigible by lenses, navigating complex environments with autonomy and safety is one of the most demanding and dangerous tasks. Virtual reality (VR) holds strong potential for training and rehabilitation, yet its use is impeded by the difficulty o

Shape-changing user interfaces (SCUI) are a promising way to interact with computers. MolecUI’s objective is to study programmable matter as a new way to implement SCUI. Programmable matter is defined here as a modular robot composed of a huge number of mm-scale, stand-alone, and detachable robots t

Interactive training systems can embody so-called intelligent technologies: robotics, activity recognition, intelligent tutoring systems and artificial intelligence. For stroke rehabilitation, they cover specific objectives of a rehabilitation program. In order not to limit the intelligence of these

How to improve the learning and decision-making abilities in robots? This project adopts the radical approach of providing a robot with lab-cultured human ‘mini-brains’ (cerebral organoids or human cortical brain slice). The robot-to-brain connection will be enabled by a novel bioengineered platform

Due to their distributed and autonomous nature, robot swarms have self-adaptation properties that are very useful, but which make any supervision (visualization and understanding) and control by a human operator very difficult. The two main scientific issues are helping the operator to understand an

The ambition of the project is to design new approaches for the long term navigation of a multi-robot system collaborating on a common monitoring tasks, in a urban or peri-urban environment using heterogeneous sensors in order to facilitate their implementation (reduction of preparation time and c

Interaction in Virtual Reality is mainly conducted through embodied actions in 3D space (e.g., walking, pointing). Literature in the field of Human-Computer Interaction established the concept of persuasive design which is a practice to influence (nudge) a user’s behavior towards a certain action. T

The context of this project is the navigation of autonomous multi-robot systems. These are robots that can localize themselves in their environment, perceive it, interpret it without any human interaction, interact with other robots by exchanging relevant information and that make safe decisions to