Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• Anatole Lécuyer was awarded the Inria-Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) "Young Researcher" Prize 2013.

• Paper from Anthony Talvas, Maud Marchal and Anatole Lécuyer received the "Best Technote Award" at IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2013 (IEEE 3DUI'13).

• Paper from Ferran Argelaguet, David Gómez Jáuregui, Maud Marchal and Anatole Lécuyer was selected as one of the best papers at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2013 (ACM SAP'13).

• Paper from Charles Pontonnier, Thierry Duval and Georges Dumont was selected as one of the best papers at IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunication 2013 (IEEE CogIncoCom'2013).

• Two projects in which Hybrid is involved were awarded at the trophies "Loading the Future 2013" organized by French Competitivity Cluster "Images et Réseaux": ACOUSTIC (Grand Prize) (section 8.2.4 ) and W3D (SME Prize) (section 8.1.2 ).

• Project OpenViBE2 (section 8.2.5 ) coordinated by Hybrid has received the "Projet Phare" label by French ANR (National Research Agency). It successfully ended in January 2013 year with a press release and a press conference which generated a massive media coverage.

Best Papers Awards :

[43] The God-Finger Method for Improving 3D Interaction with Virtual Objects through Simulation of Contact Area in IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces.
A. Talvas, M. Marchal, A. Lécuyer.

[14] Elastic Images: Perceiving Local Elasticity of Images Through a Novel Pseudo-Haptic Deformation Effect in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.
F. Argelaguet Sanz, D. A. Gómez Jáuregui, M. Marchal, A. Lécuyer.

[41] Sharing and bridging information in a collaborative virtual environment : application to ergonomics in IEEE international conference on cognitive infocommunication.
C. Pontonnier, T. Duval, G. Dumont.