Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Personnel

Mathieu Nancel joined us as an Inria researcher in November.

Marcelo Wanderley joined us in February as part of the Inria International Chair program and will spend 20% of his time with us until 2020.

Ed Lank, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, joined us in September for a long-term visit (10+ months) funded by Région Hauts-de-France and Université Lille 1.

In partnership with Campus France and Inria, Mitacs' Globalink Research Award program sponsored the visits of three canadian students in our group: Nicholas Fellion (Carleton University), Hrim Mehta (Ontario Institute of Technology) and Aakar Gupta (University of Toronto).

Publications & dissemination

Mjolnir presented seven papers and one “late-breaking work” at the ACM CHI 2016 conference in May, the most prestigious conference in our field.

The Animated transitions web site launched in March illustrates previous works by Fanny Chevalier and others on this topic (Histomages, Diffamation and Gliimpse).

Awards

“Honorable mention” (top 5% of the 2300+ submissions) from the ACM CHI 2016 conference to the following three papers:

• “Egocentric analysis of dynamic networks with EgoLines”, from J. Zhao, M. Glueck, F. Chevalier, Y. Wu & A. Khan

• “Modeling and understanding human routine behavior”, from N. Banovic, T. Buzali, F. Chevalier, J. Mankoff & A. Dey

• “Direct manipulation in tactile displays”, from A. Gupta, T. Pietrzak, N. Roussel & R. Balakrishnan

“Springer award for best doctoral contribution” to Amira Chalbi-Neffati at the IHM 2016 conference.

Best Papers Awards:

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