Current lectures:

Current and past seminars:

  • Fall 2013 - Information Representation 2 Project (Vlad Atanasiu, Denis Lalanne)
  • Spring 2013 - Information Representation 1 Introduction (Vlad Atanasiu, Denis Lalanne)
  • Autumn 2012 - SSP Social Signal Processing (Fabien Ringeval, Denis Lalanne)
  • Spring 2012 - Multimodal Interaction on Mobiles Devices (Denis Lalanne)
  • Autumn 2011 - Emotion Recognition (Denis Lalanne, Fabien Ringeval)
  • 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:
    • Pierre Vanhulst
    • Raphael Tuor
    • Karl Daher
    • Mira El Kamali
    • Sailin Zhong

  • Past supervision (or co-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)
    • 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:

Supervised student projects (2007-1995):

  • Lorena Lecalde (ongoing): The Pandora Editor, just in time information retrieval for document authoring
  • Pierre Vanhulst (ongoing): Visual mining tools for web logs analysis
  • Jan Kueni (ongoing): An evolutionist AB testing solution
  • Adel Rizaev (ongoing): Activity recognition on smartphones
  • Samaneh Soleimani (2014): Multimodal live emotion recognition for the Emotiboard
  • Valentina Coletti (2014): UCDML tool – a tool for an agile user centered design in companies
  • Denis Bossy (2014): MMCAPP - The multimodal challenge application for mobile devices
  • Chrisitan Frei (ongoing): Emotion Visualization for Collaborative Applications
  • Haleh Chizari (2014): Integration of Voice and Gesture inputs: Study, Implementation and Evaluation
  • Simon Brunner (2011): Using Microsoft Kinect to perform commands on virtual objects
  • Daria Nitescu (2011): Evaluation of pointing strategies for Microsoft Kinect Sensor Device
  • Saïd Mechkour (2011): Visual Editor for the HephaisTK Multimodal Interaction Toolkit
  • Zohreh Danandeh (2010): Controlling the Nao robot in real time
  • Tom Forrer (2010): Vision based economic gestures recognition
  • Benoit Pointet (2010): Bind and Adapt; A paradigm and framework for information visualization
  • Kevin Mattenberger (2010): Controlling NAOs arms with color markers
  • Silvan Troxler (2010): MultiCross – A programming Library for multi-party Collaborative Applications
  • Jan Aurel Kühni (2010): Improving Wiimote Gesture Recognition With User Feedback
  • Claude Bossy (2009): Improving emails visualization in Thunderbird, Bachelor project, University of Fribourg, 2009.
  • Julien Thomet (2009): Weena - Visualisation Temporelle de l'Information Personnelle
  • Guillaume Gnaegi (2009): Gesture recognition on multi-touch table for enhanced collaborative work
  • Sylvain Roebig (2009): Le Tableau de Ver - Interacting Remotely through a Transparent Interactive Surface
  • Anne Gachet (2008): A practical study on usability approaches combining qualitative and quantitative methods
  • Lawrence Michel (2008): GeoFlowViz - Visualizing large-scale geo-referenced business flows
  • Mehdi Radgohar (2008): ImmoAnalytics – Une Application web d’analyse visuelle de données immobilières
  • Pierre-Yves Donzallaz, MyLink : Aide à la recherche d’informations personnelles, Bachelor thesis, University of Fribourg, August 2008.
  • 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.