معرفی
Professor Eric Lecolinet is a faculty member at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, leading the DIVA (Design, Interaction, Visualization & Applications) research team within the LTCI laboratory. He is also President of the French-speaking Human-Machine Interaction Association (AFIHM).
Education & Qualifications
He earned his Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in 2018 from Université Paris-Saclay, specializing in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, with a thesis entitled “Making Interaction Gestural: Expressivity and Memorability of Gestures”.
Research Interests
His research spans:
- Touch and tactile interfaces, including artificial skin and multi-modal feedback.
- Graphical and gestural user interfaces for mobile, wearable, and immersive systems.
- Virtual and augmented reality interaction techniques, with emphasis on safety and memory effects.
- Interactive visualization and novel display platforms, notably the Digiscope high-performance visualization network.
Publications & Trends
Over the past five years, Professor Lecolinet’s work has concentrated on:
- Understanding and designing haptic interfaces that leverage artificial skin (Skin-On) and pneumatic feedback for affective communication.
- Exploring security and ethical implications of perceptual manipulations in VR, including memory distortions and physical risks.
- Developing compact gesture vocabularies for small surfaces and confined spaces, combining marking menus, finger-count shortcuts, and multi-modal feedback.
Scientific Awards & Honors
No specific awards are listed in the provided material, but he is recognized through leadership roles: President of AFIHM, member of the LTCI laboratory council, and scientific head of Télécom Paris Fablab.
Teaching & Advising
He directs the Master Interaction, Graphics & Design (IGD) at IP Paris and co-directs the 3D & Interactive Systems engineering track (IGR). He teaches courses on:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Interactive 2D/3D and mobile application development
- Programming paradigms (C/C++, Qt, Swing)
Current PhD students include Yang Liu and Elise Bonnail.
Labs & Teams
He leads the DIVA group (≈25 researchers) and oversees the PIXLS and IRIS platforms within the Equipex+ Continuum and former Digiscope networks. He also manages the Télécom Paris Fablab, a digital fabrication laboratory serving both research and education.
