Smart assistants, self-driving cars, cognitive interfaces, automated decision support...
To enable true human-machine cooperation, the Human Factors Technologies lab analyzes and anticipates human behaviors in order to design smart environments that are effective, intuitive, and customized. By the same logic, it creates solutions founded on its expertise in psychophysiology, cognitive sciences, and interaction design. Using the best simulation and analysis methods, it develops user-centered interaction technologies and objective behavioral measurement tools to usher in the digital transformation of the industrial world and help create a new experience for its customers.
At the intersection of Cognitive Science and Human Factors, we define innovations that ensure people are both the driver and end purpose of technological research.
05.03.2019
Am I better in VR with a real audience?
We present an experimental study using virtual reality (VR) to investigate the effects of a real audience on social inhibition. The study compares a multiuser application, locally or remotely shared. The application engages one user and a real audience (i.e., local or remote conditions) and a control condition where the user is alone (i.e., alone condition). The differences have been explored by…
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10.09.2019
Pyramid Escape: Design of Novel Passive Haptics Interactions for an Immersive and Modular Scenario
In this paper, we present the design of ten different 3D user interactions using passive haptics and embedded in an escape game scenario in which users have to escape from a pyramid in a limited time. Our solution is innovative by its modularity, allowing interactions with virtual objects using tangible props manipulated either directly using the hands and feet or indirectly through a single prop…
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09.24.2019
Studying the Mental Effort in Virtual Versus Real Environments
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12.06.2018
Evaluation of AR Inconsistencies on AR Placement Tasks: A VR Simulation Study
One of the major challenges of Augmented Reality (AR) is the registration of virtual and real contents. When errors occur during the registration process, inconsistencies between real and virtual contents arise and can alter user interaction. In this paper, we assess the impact of registration errors on the user performance and behaviour during an AR pick-and-place task in a Virtual Reality (VR)…
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