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Dr. William Delamare
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william.delamare@acm.org
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Advisor: Pourang Irani
Research Areas: Gesture Interaction, Guiding System, Gaze Interaction, Distant Interaction, Augmented Physical Objects
About
After getting my engineer degree at ENSIMAG, I did my PhD in the EHCI team of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory. During my PhD, I focused on human-computer interaction with augmented physical objects. I particularly enjoy how new technologies can enable users to get new abilities and hence break free of physical constraints.
I am interested in distant interaction, i.e. how can new technologies enable humans to get new abilities? More specifically, I enjoy exploring solutions for interacting with augmented physical objects. This augmentation allows me to tackle new problems not present in the physical world before the spread of pervasive technologies.
It is the opposite direction of what has been explored in the early stages of Virtual and Augmented Reality: instead of reducing the gap between the digital and physical worlds by mimicking the physical world, I would like to explore how we can get rid of physical constraints in the physical world thanks to new technologies. For instance, 100 years ago, one had to move near a physical object (reducing the distance) in order to move it (applying a force). Now, we can provide interaction techniques to let users move this object without reducing the distance (e.g., by looking at the object) and without applying the force themselves (e.g., by performing a small finger gesture).
Publications
Interacting with Autostereograms
William Delamare, Junhyeok Kim, Daichi Harada, Pourang Irani, and Xiangshi Ren. 2019. Interacting with Autostereograms. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340141
An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies
William Delamare, Ali Neshati, Pourang Irani, and Xiangshi Ren. 2019. An Analytic Model for Time Efficient Personal Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 368, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300598. Honourable Mention Award.
ThumbText: Text Entry for Wearable Devices Using a Miniature Ring
Junhyeok Kim, William Delamare, Pourang Irani. ThumbText: Text Entry for Wearable Devices Using a Miniature Ring. Graphics Interface, May 2018, Toronto, Canada. ⟨hal-03030524⟩
D-SWIME: A Design Space for Smartwatch Interaction Techniques Supporting Mobility and Encumbrance
Gaganpreet Singh, William Delamare, and Pourang Irani. 2018. D-SWIME: A Design Space for Smartwatch Interaction Techniques Supporting Mobility and Encumbrance. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 634, 13 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174208
ThumbText: Text-Entry for Wearable Devices using a Miniature Ring
Junhyeok Kim, William Delamare, and Pourang Irani.ThumbText: Text-Entry for Wearable Devices using a Miniature Ring,In Proceedings of the 43rd Graphics Interface Conference (GI '18). 2018.
Designing a Gaze Gesture Guiding System
William Delamare, Teng Han, and Pourang Irani. 2017. Designing a gaze gesture guiding system. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 13 pages.