Abstract:

While interactive 3D environments have become ubiquitous in the industry, notably to improve work cycles for conception or simulation tasks, they are still far from being exploited to their full extent outside such industrial contexts.

In Inria team Potioc (http://team.inria.fr/potioc/), we aim at exploiting this potential by opening interactive 3D graphics to everyone with the final goal of stimulating creation, communication, understanding, or entertainment. To this end, we propose to focus on the design, development and evaluation of popular 3D User Interfaces, mostly targeted at the general public. In this presentation, we will introduce the scientific challenges addressed by our group and illustrate them by some of our recent work dedicated to augmented reality for real drawing creation (project PapARt), design and evaluation of new touch-based 3D user interfaces (project InSTInCT - http://anr-instinct.cap-sciences.net/?q=node/34) and Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) with Virtual Reality.

Bio:

Fabien Lotte obtained a M.Sc., a M.Eng. and a PhD degree in computer sciences, all from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Rennes, France, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. As a PhD candidate he was part of the BUNRAKU team at Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique and member of the OpenViBE project dedicated to brain-computer interfaces and virtual reality. His PhD Thesis received both the PhD Thesis award 2009 from AFRIF (French Association for Pattern Recognition) and the PhD Thesis award 2009 accessit (2nd prize) from ASTI (French Association for Information Sciences and Technologies). In 2009 and 2010, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, in Singapore. Since January 2011, he is a Research Scientist (with tenure) at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, in France. His research interests include brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality and 3D interaction, pattern recognition and signal processing.