research

My Ph.D. is focused on the design of advanced forms of interaction. More precisely I have focused my research on the management of creativity in the design process dedicated to mixed interaction. The result is a method called MACS.

MACS is a collaborative design methods combining the exploratory power of mixed reality interaction models and the informal power of creative design sessions. With a formal notation and basic generative techniques, design teams are able to deeply explore the design space and combinations between the physical and digital spaces. The notation also eases the communication between disciplines and helps the design team in framing the design problem.

To learn about the MACS method, please refer to the following publications:

Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. MACS: combination of a formal mixed interaction model with an informal creative session. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems (EICS'11), ACM New York, NY, USA ©2011 (2011), 63-72.
Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. Co-Design of Interactive Museographic Exhibits: the MIME case study. International conference on ReThinking Technology in Museums: Emerging Experiences, University of Limerick (2011), 37-48.

Publications

Dubois, E., Scapin, D., Charfi, S., & Bortolaso, C. (2012). Usability Recommendations for Mixed Interactive Systems: extraction and integration in a design process.
In T. Huang, L. Alem, & M. Livingston (Eds.), Human factors in augmented reality environments (Springer U., p. in press).

Graham, T.C.N., Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., and Wolfe, C. Scenarchitectures: The Use of Domain-Specific Architectures to Bridge Design and Implementation.Proceedings of Interact'11, Lisbon, Portugal, (2011), 341-358.

Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. Co-Design of Interactive Museographic Exhibits: the MIME case study.
Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on ReThinking Technology in Museums: Emerging Experiences, Limerick, Ireland, (2011), 37-48.

Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. MACS: combination of a formal mixed interaction model with an informal creative session.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems (EICS'11), ACM New York, NY, USA ©2011 (2011), 63-72.

Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., and Gauffre, G. Models Articulations for Ubiquitous System Design.
In International workshop on Model-based Interactive Ubiquitous Systems (MODIQUITOUS) at EICS'11.Pisa, Italy, (2011), in press.

Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., Duranthon, F., and Blanquer-Maumont, A. Design and Evaluation of Mixed Interactive Museographic Exhibits.
International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Inderscience Publishers, Special Issues on Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments, Vol. 3 N. 4, (in press).

Gauffre, G., Charfi, S., Bortolaso, C., Bach, C., and Dubois, E. Developing Mixed Interactive Systems: A Model-Based Process for Generating and Managing Design Solutions.
The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems. Emmanuel Dubois, Philip Gray, Laurence Nigay (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 10, p. 183-208, Vol. 14, HCI Series, 2009. Résumé Accès : http://springer.com/978-1-84882-732-5

Bortolaso, C., Dubois, E., Dittlo, N., and La Rivière, J.-B. de. 3D multitouch advanced interaction techniques and applications.
Proceedings of the International conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2009), Banff, 23-NOV-09-25-NOV-09, Gerald Morrison, Sriram Subramanian (Eds.). Résumé Accès : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7no36WwXNqg

Bortolaso, C., Dubois, E., Bach, C., Nigay, L., and Coutrix, C. Conception de systèmes interactifs mixtes: articulation d'une méthode informelle et d'un modèle d'interaction.
Proceedings de la 21ème conference internationale d'Interaction Homme Machine, Grenoble, 13-OCT-09-16-OCT-09, octobre 2009; ACM Press, p. 293-302, 2009.

Moussa, W.A., Dubois, E., Bortolaso, C., Salembier, P., Jessel, J.-P., and Bach, C. SIMBA: méthodologie et plateforme de prototypage moyenne fidélité pour les systèmes interactifs mixtes.
Ubiquité et Mobilité, (UBIMOB 2008), Saint Malo, 27-MAY-08-31-MAY-08, E Dubois, JM Pierson (Eds.), ACM Press, p. 21-29, 2008.

projects

Diagramming on top

As a diagram is better than a thousand words... a video is better than too many explanations.

Tangible interfaces for Museum

CladiBulle & MIME are two augmented virtuality systems‚ designed for the Toulouse′s Museum of Natural History. Those prototypes deal with cladistic the new classification of species.

The first one called CladiBulle is an augmented virtuality system which aim at comparing cladistic and the old classification. To interact with CladiBubble, we have developped a dedicated tool which is based on the manipulation of a REAL pump ! To know more take a quick look the video below.

We have also developped MIME‚ in which users can navigate in a 3 dimensional cladogram. By this way user can discover the cladogram structure and find out informations about cladogram nodes and leaves. Two different interaction techniques have been developped. The first one is based on the use of a RAL flashlight and the second one is based on the used of the famous Cubtile.