Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Two new permanent staff have joined our team this year: Ronan Gaugne (Research Engineer, Univ. Rennes 1), Ferran Argelaguet (CR2 Inria Research Scientist).

• There has been an outstanding total of six PhD Theses defended this year by members of Hybrid.

• Our team organized, together with MimeTIC team, a press conference in Paris on the "6-Finger Illusion" in May 2016, followed by a huge media coverage.

Awards

• Paper and demo "When the Giant meets the Ant: An Asymmetric Approach for Collaborative and Concurrent Object Manipulation in a Multi-Scale Environment" [35] obtained the Second Prize at the IEEE 3DUI Contest 2016.

• Project MANDARIN received the "Economical Impact Award 2016" from ANR (French National Research Agency).

• Project PREVIZ received a "Loading the Future' Trophy 2016" from Images et Réseaux French Competitivity Cluster.