Teaching

Current lectures:

• Master course on "Multimodal interfaces" -
• Master course on "User Centered Design"
• Bachelor course on "Multimedia Technologies"

Current and past seminars:

• Autumn 2010 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (Bruno Dumas, Maurizio Rigamonti, Denis Lalanne)
• Spring 2010 - Gesture recognition II (Denis Lalanne, Florian Evequoz)
• Autumn 2009 - Gesture recognition (Denis Lalanne)
• Spring 2009 - Personal Information Management (Florian Evequoz, Denis Lalanne)
• Autumn 2008 - Evaluation Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (Enrico Bertini, Maurizio Rigamonti, Denis Lalanne)
• Seminar 06/07: Information Visualization [archived]
• Seminar 05/06: Tangible user interfaces
• Seminar 04/05: Meeting room projects
• Seminar 03/04: Document recognition and retrieval

Past lectures:

• Contributed to master course on "User experience Design" (2009 - Engineering school, Fribourg)
• Contributer to master course on "Information visualization" (2008 - Engineering school, Fribourg)
• Web technologies (year 2000, Institut Universitaire Professionnel d’'Avignon, 3rd year computer science)
• Introduction to Statistics tools for scientists (year 2000)
• Practical courses:
• Programming and algorithmic in C++ (year 2000, Institut Universitaire Professionnel d’Avignon, 1st year computer science
• Compilation and Language theory, Lex/Yacc (year 2000, Institut Universitaire Professionnel d’'Avignon, 2nd year computer science)
• Artificial intelligence (years 1995-1998, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, 4th year Microtechnique).

PhD thesis

• Ongoing supervision:
• Matthias Schwaller (3D Deictic gestures recognition)
• Ilya Boyandin (Origin-destination data visualization)
• Leonardo Angelini (Tangible gestures recognition)
• Simon Ruffieux (Evaluation framework and ground-truth for gesture recognition)


• Past supervision (or co-supervision):
• Florian Evequoz: Personal Information Management and Visualization (2010)
• Bruno Dumas: A Toolkit Allowing Rapid Creation of Multimodal Interfaces (2010)
• Maurizio Rigamonti: A Framework for Managing and Exploring Multimedia Archives through Links and Static Documents (2008)
• Ardhendu Behera: "A visual signature-based Identification Method of Low-resolution Document Images and its Exploitation to Automate Indexing of Multimodal Recordings". Thesis Nr 1529, University of Fribourg, 2006 (awarded best thesis in computer science at the university of Fribourg in 2006)
• Dalila Mekhaldi: "A study on Multimodal document Alignment: Bridging the gap between textual documents and spoken language". Thesis Nr 1521, University of Fribourg, 2006.


• As member of the jury:
• Pascal Bruegger, "uMove: A wholistic framework to design and implement ubiquitous computing systems.", University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2011.
• Marcos Serrano, "Interaction multimodale en entrée : Conception et Prototypage", University of Grenoble, France, 2010.

Organized events:

• Troisieme cycle romand d'informatique - Gesture recognition (2010)
• Troisieme cycle romand d'informatique - School on usability engineering (2009)
• Troisieme cycle romand d'informatique - Multimedia Search Engines, October 8th-9th 2007
• "Supporting Human Memory with Interactive Systems", International Workshop at Bsc HCI international conference 2007.
• Co-organized:
  • "Digital Interactive TV", Fribourg, December 1st, 2006. (iTV2006)
    Tutorial and workshop of the CUSO (3ème cycle romand d'Informatique)
  • "Multimodal and Mobile Interfaces", Winter school of the CUSO (3ème cycle romand d'Informatique), Anzere, Switzerland, March 1-5, 2004.
    

Supervised student projects (2007-1995):

• Dominique Guinard, Masters Thesis, University of Fribourg, RelateGateways: An Architecture to Enable Spontaneous Mobile Spatial Interaction with Pervasive Services, Fribourg, 2007 Best swiss thesis award (Fritz Kutter Prizes 2007 for Practice-Relevant Computer Science Theses).
• Reto Koenig "Personal RADAR – Providing localization facilities to blind people", Master project, Fribourg, 2007.
• Lawrence Michel, "GeoFlowViz – Visualizing large-scale geo-referenced business flows", Master project, Fribourg, 2007.
• Karin Altorfer, " MindMap – Creative and collaborative MindMapping on a Sensitive Whiteboard", Master project, Fribourg, 2007.
• Cedric Graf, "Morgane: Interactive visualizations for managing files", Bachelor project, University of Fribourg, 2007.
• Radgohar Medhi, "Phong: augmenting virtual and real gaming experience", Bachelor project, university of Fribourg, 2006.
• Chiquet Herve, "Elcano: a tangible personal multimedia browser", Bachelor project, university of Fribourg, 2006.
• Müller Mattias, "TJass: a smart game board for augmenting card playing experience", Bachelor project, university of Fribourg, 2006.
• Patrick Brugger, "PurifyDoc, Cleaning and Structuring PDF documents using XED", Bachelor project, university of Fribourg, 2006.
• Gonzalez Andy, "TouchME: Tangible User Interfaces to access and play multimedia files", diploma project, University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2005.
• David Coral, "Using Wordnet for improving similarity distance calculation", Bachelor project, UniFr, 2005.
• Lawrence Michel, "Aligning multi-channel audio recording of a meeting", Bachelor project, UniFr, 2004.
• Luc Aebischer, "Rectifying low-resolution document image distortions", Bachelor project, UniFr, 2004.
• Christian Wolf & Mathieu Clement, "Automatic assembly of Audio/Video sequences", University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2004.
• Théraulaz Jérôme & Gremaud Gilles, "Anoto technology evaluation for Form design and filling", University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2004.
• Jean-Philippe Zbinden, "PDA & Services multimédias", projet de diplôme 2003, University of Applied Sciences.
• Cristobal Martin & Christophe Pouly, "Système distribué d'enregistrement audio-vidéo", University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2003.
• Catherine Pugin, "Smart Meeting Minutes Viewer", rapport projet de Bachelor, UniFr, 2003.
• Christoph Ehret, "Smart Meeting Minutes Writer", rapport projet de Bachelor, UniFr, 2003.
• Laurence Fidanza, "Smart Meeting Minutes Organizer", rapport projet de Bachelor, UniFr, 2003.
• Gay-Crosier Benoit & De Bruyne Tom, "Java networking using Bluetooth on Pocket PC", University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2003.
• Laurent Prin & Patrick Terreaux, "Intégration d'un participant externe à une réunion par vidéo conférence", University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg, 2003.
• Frank Schnyder, "A computer-aided brainstorming system", Diploma project, EPFL, 1996.
• Reto Kholas, "A case based reasoning system", Semester project, EPFL, 1996.
• Ronald Noll, "Composer, A case based reasoning system for bridge design", Semester project, EPFL, 1995.
• Frank Schnyder, "A tutorial for learning design methodologies", Semester project, EPFL, 1995.
• Jacques Barbey, "Evaluation de la faisabilité d'un système informatique d'aide à la recherche et à la sélection de solutions dans le cadre de la conception", Semester project, EPFL, 1995. For Bachelor, Masters, semester and diploma projects, see on DIVA website or at the end of my publication list.