From: Thomas Pietrzak [mailto:thomas.pietrzak@univ-lille1.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 10:34 AM
To: Ravin Balakrishnan <ravin@dgp.toronto.edu>
Subject: Co-tutelle Ph.D. offer Lille-Ottawa
Hi Ravin,
How are you doing? Can you please forward this Ph.D. offer to your students?
Have a nice day,
Direct manipulation with flexible devices
Funding to secure - cotutelle in collaboration between Loki (Inria, University of Lille, France) Audrey Girouard, Creative Interactions Lab at Carleton University (Ottawa, CA)
Contacts: Thomas Pietrzak, Stéphane Huot, Audrey Girouard (thomas.pietrzak@univ-lille1.fr, stephane.huot@inria.fr, audreygirouard@cunet.carleton.ca)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research constantly explores new input and output modalities. Flexible devices are a relatively new approach that offers continuous input modality. Similarly to joysticks, flexible devices pertain to the category of elastic devices. They move back to their initial position when the user releases them. Depending on their elasticity, they either behave like an isotonic (like a mouse) or isometric device (like a trackpoint). In this thesis, the candidate will design, implement and evaluate new flexible devices and interaction techniques in relevant contexts an application domains to be identified (e.g., mobile interaction, creativity support tools, control with numerous degrees of freedom such as robotics, etc.). On a more theoretical perspective, he, or she, will study the relation between input actions and feedback (sensory-motor loop) in this very new and particular context, in order to inform the design of efficient flexible devices for direct manipulation.
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Thomas Pietrzak
Assistant Professor, Université Lille 1
+33(0) 3 59 35 87 86
http://www.thomaspietrzak.com