Sylvain Malacria
Loki group
Inria Centre at the University of Lille
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
Latest news:
Two papers were conditionnally accepted. The first is Vincent Lambert's paper on Studying the Simultaneous Visual Representation of Microgestures, accepted to MobileHCI 2024. The second is Suliac Lavenant's work on Studying the Perception of Vibrotactile Haptic Cues on the Hand and Forearm for Microgesture Interaction that will be presented at ISMAR. Congratulations Vincent and Suliac!
Just arrived in the Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, led by Koji Yatani for a 10 month JSPS International fellowship.
Two papers funded by the ANR JCJC Discovery project just got accepted. The first is Eva Mackamul 's journal paper on clarifying and differentiating terms used in HCI when referring to discoverability , accepted to Human-Computer Interaction. The second is Raphaël Perraud's work on tutorial mismatches that will be presented at DIS next month. Congratulations Eva and Raphaël!
I am a research scientist (Chargé de Recherche 1ère classe, HDR) at Inria, in the Loki group, currently visiting Prof. Koji Yatani's' Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo as a JSPS Invited fellow. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University College London and at the University of Canterbury (New-Zealand). I did my Ph.D. at Télécom ParisTech, and passed my Master Degree at UPMC in Artificial Intelligence with a speciality in HCI. I am also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada (2021-2024).
My research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), with additional focus on designing interactive systems and interaction techniques that can be easily discovered and learned by novice users, while still yielding high performance to more practiced users. More generally, I am highly interested in how interaction can be communicated to the user to foster its discovery. If you are curious about my research, giving a look at the selected recent publications below should provide a decent overview.
I currently am the Principal Investigator of the ANR JCJC Discovery project (2020-2024) that investigates the design of Graphical User Interfaces that would better support the discovery of their interactive principles.
Selected recent Publications
Ongoing student supervisions
- Suliac Lavenant (PhD Student funded by the ANR MIC project, co-supervised with Laurence Nigay, Alix Goguey and Thomas Pietrzak)
- Raphaël Perraud (PhD Student funded by the Discovery project )
- Vincent Lambert (PhD Student at Grenoble Alpes University, co-supervised with Laurence Nigay and Alix Goguey)
- Constant Yuan Chen (PhD Student in co-tutelle with University of Waterloo, co-supervised with Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel and Edward Lank)
Previous student supervisions
- Eva Mackamul (Defended Dec. 21st 2023, co-supervised with Géry Casiez)
- Damien Masson (Defended Aug. 2nd 2023, co-supervised with Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel and Edward Lank) -- Now Post Doc at University of Toronto
- Axel Antoine (Defended Jan. 29th 2021, co-supervised with Géry Casiez) -- Now lead software engineer at Stereograph
- Nicole Pong (Defended Oct. 21st 2020, co-supervised with Stéphane Huot and Nicolas Roussel)