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Sylvain Malacria

Inria, Loki group
Centre de recherche Lille -- Nord Europe,
Batiment B, bureau B102
40, avenue Halley - Park Plaza
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Phone: +33 (0)3 59 35 8785
sylvain dot malacria at inria dot fr

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I am currently looking for two excellent PhD students. Please check the Jobs page for more details.

Presentation

I am a research scientist (Chargé de Recherche 1ère classe) at Inria, in the Loki group. Prior to that, I did a 10 months post-doc at the University College London and a two years post-doc with Andy Cockburn at the University of Canterbury (New-Zealand). I did my Ph.D. with Eric Lecolinet at Télécom ParisTech, and passed my Master Graduate at UPMC in Artificial Intelligence with a speciality in HCI.

Research interests

My research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), with additional focus on designing new interaction techniques. I especially focus on understanding and improving the transition from novice to expert mode in graphical interfaces. During my Ph.D., I worked on identifying which type of resources (software and hardware) can be used to enrich the input bandwidth.

Selected publications

Investigating The Necessity Of Delay In Marking Menu Invocation  (CHI '20) [PDF] 
Chameleon: Bringing Interactivity to Static Digital Documents  (CHI '20) [PDF] 
Awareness, Usage and Discovery of Swhidgets in iOS (ISS '19) [PDF] [ACM] 
Esquisse: Using 3D Staging to Create Vector-based Trace Figures  (Interact '19) [PDF] [VIDEO] [Springer] 
Reducing Error Aversion to Support Novice-to-Expert Transitions with FastTap  (IHM '19) [PDF] 
Improving Discoverability and Expert Performance in Force-Sensitive Text Selection (CHI '18) [PDF] [VIDEO] [ACM] 


Other Activities

Teaching

I am currently teaching computer science and HCI at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Lille and Institut Villebon-Charpak (Université Paris Saclay).

Current student supervisions

- Since Oct 2017: co-supervisor with Géry Casiez of Axel Antoine's PhD (University of Lille)
- Since Nov 2016: co-supervisor with Nicolas Roussel and Stéphane Huot of Nicole Pong's PhD (Inria)

Previous supervisions

-2017 Co-supervisor with Géry Casiez of Axel Antoine Master 2 summer internship (University of Lille)
-2016 Co-supervisor with Géry Casiez of Axel Antoine Master 1 summer internship (University of Lille)
-2016 Co-supervisor with Géry Casiez and Alix Goguey of Damien Masson undergraduate summer internship (University of Lille)
-2016 Co-supervisor with Géry Casiez of Axel Antoine and Sofiane Rahahoui Master 1 projects (University of Lille)
-2014 Supervisor of Hana Kim masters project. (University College London)
-2013 Co-supervisor with Professor Cockburn of Joel Harrison honors project. (University of Canterbury)

Volunteering

-Interactivity co-chair for the CHI 2020 conference.
-Program Commitee Member for the ISS 2019 conference.
-Program Commitee Member for the CHI 2017 and 2018 conferences (Interaction Techniques, Devices, and Modalities subcommittee).
-Program Commitee Member for the Mobile HCI 2016 conference.
-Program Commitee Member for Workshops for CHI 2014 and 2015 conferences.
-Program Commitee Member for 26th, 27th Conférence francophone sur l’Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM '14 and '15).
-Program Commitee Member for the Fifteenth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2014).
-Organization of the ACM SigCHI Paris "Interfaces de demain" showcase, July 7 2011, Paris.
-Meetings management on Human Computer Interaction at Telecom ParisTech

Invited Talks

-Opportunities and limits of Adaptive User Interfaces at the Technology and Routines workshop, June 27-28 2016, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany.
-Computing tools to empower users, UCLIC seminar, November 19 2015, University College London, United Kingdom.
-Improving user’s expertise with user interfaces at SIGCHI Paris, February 7 2014, University Paris-Sud, France.
-Improving user’s intermodal expertise, July 9 2013, UCL/BBC London Media Technology Campus, United Kingdom.
-The design and evaluation of mechanisms promoting hotkey use: April 19 2014 at Inria Bordeaux, France and April 25 2014 at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.
-Touch-based interactions at the Interfaces de demain showcase, July 7 2011, Paris.
-Bell-labs open days, May 11-13 2011, Villarceaux.
-Paris Region Innovation Tour 2008, 19th of November 2008, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris.

Reviewing

I frequently serve as a reviewer for the main HCI conferences, especially:
-ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
-ACM Symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST).
-ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS).
-ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI).
-IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT).
-The interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Interacting With Computers).
-ACM Conférence francophone sur l’Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM).