MINT @ ACM ISS 2026
Esther Gruy will present her paper Using Mixed Reality Trajectory Visualisation for the Musical Exploration of Sonic Spaces at the ACM Interactive Spaces and Surfaces International Conference.
More detail soon !
10/2026
The MINT team conducts research in Human-Computer Interaction on the notion of extended interactions in observed situations, covering contexts such as interfaces in public spaces, artistic performances, teaching, but also rehabilitation (e.g., a practitioner observing a patient) or collaboration in general. More specifically, we focus on three main goals:
Esther Gruy will present her paper Using Mixed Reality Trajectory Visualisation for the Musical Exploration of Sonic Spaces at the ACM Interactive Spaces and Surfaces International Conference.
More detail soon !
10/2026
A collaboration between the team and Pierrick Uro (Munster Technological University) will be presented at the 3rd International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse (IEEE IWMM) in October. The paper is entitled A design space for viewpoint-decoupling in mixed-reality musical ensembles.
More detail soon !
08/2026
A collaboration between MINT, Algomus and the musician Barbara Dang will be presented at the 7th Conference on AI Music Creativity. The paper is entitled Audience Experience of Visual Augmentations for Human-AI Co-Improvisations.
More detail soon !
07/2026
Esther Gruy presented her paper Extended Reality Audio-Visual Instruments: Design Framework and Case Study.
Here is the video :
and here is the paper.
06/2026
Barbara Dang will perform on the first concert of the Journées d'Informatique Musicale 2026 at la Malterie on June 15th.
The performance will make use of the MusIAug system developed as a collaboration between MINT and Algomus. More detail on the project soon !
06/2026
Reverberations, a mixed-reality art installation created as a collaboration between MINT, musician Sébastien Beaumont, and sound engineer Titouan Dumesnil, and already presented at the IEEE VR 2025 XR Gallery, was presented at the Eclectic Campagne Festival.
Here is a video of what could be seen by participants :
05/2026
Yichen Wang is starting a postdoctoral project on Mediating trust in musical collaboration through spatial communication with intelligent systems in collaboration with Ken Déguernel (CRIStAL/Algomus).
05/2026
Two papers will be presented at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in June.
More detail soon !
05/2026
Milad Jamalzadeh will present his paper Does It Matter Which Finger You Use? Investigating Finger Identity and Haptic Pattern Recognition for Stationary and Moving Fingers at ACM CHI in April. More information soon.
03/2026
Esther Gruy presented her paper Exploring the Use of Auditory Feedback as a Guide for 3D Drawing in Extended Reality at ICAT-EGVE. The paper is available here.
12/2025
Pierrick Uro successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Interaction, Space and Copresence in Colocated Mixed Reality .
Congratulations !!
11/2025
Three new members just joined the team !
10/2025
Martin Birlouez presented his paper AirSpartOne: One-Handed Distal Pointing for Large Displays on Mobile Devices and in Midair at the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The paper is available here.
10/2025
Nathan Salin will present his paper Toward Multimodal Asynchronous Collaboration in VR Artistic Creation with SPARK at ACM VRST in November. The paper is available here.
09/2025
Yosra Rekik joins the team as associate professor !
09/2025
Pierrick Uro will present his paper Strategies for the Reconciliation of Artistic Intent and Technical Constraints in Mixed Reality Performances at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems in July.
See https://dis.acm.org/2025/ for more informaion.
05/2025
Florent Berthaut will present the paper GdPd / Ivmi-Builder : A Libre Software Framework for Extended Reality Musical Instruments and Immersive Sonic Installations at the Linux Audio Conference in June.
See https://jimlac25.inria.fr/lac/ for more informaion.
05/2025
Pierrick Uro will present his paper Decoupling Physical and Virtual Spaces for New Collaboration Strategies in Co-Located Mixed Reality Instruments at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in June.
See https://nime2025.org/ for more information.
05/2025
The team presented three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :
"Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study" (Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut) can be accessed here
"Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality" (Pierrick Uro, Florent Berthaut, Thomas Pietrzak, Marcelo Wanderley), it can be accessed here
the artistic installation "Reverberations" (Sebastien Beaumont, Florent Berthaut). Here is the video :
03/2025
The team will present three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :
the paper "Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study" (Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut)
the paper "Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality" (Pierrick Uro, Florent Berthaut, Thomas Pietrzak, Marcelo Wanderley)
the artistic installation "Reverberations" (Sebastien Beaumont, Florent Berthaut)
01/2025
Two PhD students joined the team, in co-supervision with Valérie Gouranton and Ronan Gaugne @ IRISA, Rennes, and fully or partially funded by the PEPR eNSEMBLE :
Guillaume Vallet will investigate immersive participatory artistic performances, looking at new metaphors for collaboration between artists and audience members in virtual environments.
Nathan Salin will work on co-creation in virtual environments between different modalities (music, dance, visual art ...)
01/2025
Esther Gruy will present a review paper on 2D and 3D Musical Drawing at the ACM AudioMostly Conference in Milan in September.
08/2024
Esther Gruy presented a paper on a new approach and device for musical drawing in extended reality with a physical interaction loop at the NIME conference.
Here is the video :
and here is the paper
07/2024
Esther Gruy will present a paper on a novel device for musical drawing in extended reality at the NIME conference in Utrecht in September.
More details soon ...
04/2024
Two PhD students joined the team !
Esther Gruy will work on novel devices and techniques for expressive 3D interaction, in particular 3D musical drawing.
Martin Birlouez will work on semi-private proxemic interaction for co-located collaboration.
11/2023
A collaboration with Detjon Brahimaj and colleagues of the L2EP was presented as a paper at the French national conference on Human Computer Interaction : IHM 2023.
03/2023
A performance of the project Vibrating Shapes in collaboration with Sebastien Beaumont and Ivann Cruz, was selected to be presented at the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2023.
It can be watched on this page !
03/2023
Three artistic projects that use the revealed augmented reality technology created by the team :
09/2022
The team will be presenting two papers at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression :
More details soon !
03/2022
The "revealed" augmented reality technology designed by the team (presented here and here ) will be used in the cyber-opera "Terres Rares" created by Éolie Songe.
It will premiere in Grenoble on April 5th.
More information on the collaboration here.
02/2022
Vincent Reynaert successfully defended his PhD on the "Study of Arm Fatigability during Mid-Air Gestual Interactions In Virtual Reality"
Congratulations Vincent !
11/2021
Vincent Reynaert will be presenting a paper entitled The Effect of Rhythm in Mid-air Gestures on the User Experience in Virtual Reality at INTERACT 2021.
10/2021
Vincent Reynaert and Florent Berthaut presented papers at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021).
The Effect of Control-Display Ratio on User Experience in Immersive Virtual Musical Instruments (Read the paper)
Musical Exploration of Volumetric Textures in Mixed and Virtual Reality (Read the paper)
05/2021
Fatma Ben Guefrech presented the paper on "Revealable Volume Displays" at IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. The paper also received a honorable mention.
And here is the supporting video
03/2021
The team will be presenting two papers at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression :
More details soon !
02/2021
The team will be presenting a paper at IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2021 entitled : "Reveable Volume Displays : 3D Exploration of Mixed-Reality Public Exhibitions. More details soon !
01/2021