/2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:002026-05-26T00:00:00+00:002026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2026-05-26:/welcome-yichen.html<p><strong>Yichen Wang</strong> is starting a postdoctoral project on <em>Mediating trust in musical collaboration through spatial communication with intelligent systems</em> in collaboration with Ken Déguernel (CRIStAL/Algomus).</p>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:002026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2026-05-20:/mint-festival-eclectic-campagne.html<p><strong>Reverberations</strong>, a mixed-reality art installation created as a collaboration between MINT, musician Sébastien Beaumont, and sound engineer Titouan Dumesnil, and already presented at the <a href="https://mint.univ-lille.fr/reverberations.html">IEEE VR 2025 XR Gallery</a>, will be presented at the <a href="https://www.lachambredeau.fr/festival-eclectic-campagnes-2026">Eclectic Campagne Festival</a>.</p>2026-05-02T00:00:00+00:002026-05-02T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2026-05-02:/mint-nime-2026.html

<p>Two papers will be presented at the International Conference on <em>New Interfaces for Musical Expression</em> in June.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> will present her paper <em>Extended Reality Audio-Visual Instruments: Design Framework and Case Study</em>.</li> <li><strong>Nathan Salin</strong> will present his paper <em>KinoGroove: Composing with Muscle and Motion in Extended Reality</em>.</li> </ul> <p>More detail soon …</p>

<p>Two papers will be presented at the International Conference on <em>New Interfaces for Musical Expression</em> in June.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> will present her paper <em>Extended Reality Audio-Visual Instruments: Design Framework and Case Study</em>.</li> <li><strong>Nathan Salin</strong> will present his paper <em>KinoGroove: Composing with Muscle and Motion in Extended Reality</em>.</li> </ul> <p>More detail soon !</p>2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:002026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2026-03-02:/mint-acm-chi-2026.html<p><strong>Milad Jamalzadeh</strong> will present his paper <em>Does It Matter Which Finger You Use? Investigating Finger Identity and Haptic Pattern Recognition for Stationary and Moving Fingers</em> at ACM CHI in April. More information soon.</p>2025-12-03T00:00:00+00:002025-12-03T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-12-03:/mint-icat-egve-2025.html<p><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> presented her paper <em>Exploring the Use of Auditory Feedback as a Guide for 3D Drawing in Extended Reality</em> at ICAT-EGVE. The paper is available <a href="https://hal.science/hal-05395835v1">here</a>.</p>2025-11-18T00:00:00+00:002025-11-18T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-11-18:/pierrick-uro-phd-thesis.html<p><strong>Pierrick Uro</strong> successfully defended his PhD thesis titled <strong>Interaction, Space and Copresence in Colocated Mixed Reality</strong> .</p> <p>Congratulations !!</p>2025-10-09T00:00:00+00:002025-10-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-10-09:/new-team-members.html

<p>Three new members just joined the team ! </p> <ul> <li><strong>Jennifer Bertrand</strong> is starting a postdoctoral project on <em>Design and Understanding of Sensory Multimodality for Gesture and Tactile Interaction</em></li> <li><strong>Alyssa Lemoine</strong> is starting a PhD in co-supervision with Tifanie Bouchara (LISN, Paris Saclay) on <em>Personalised and Accessible extended Reality Musical Instruments for Practitioners-Patients …</em></li></ul>

<p>Three new members just joined the team ! </p> <ul> <li><strong>Jennifer Bertrand</strong> is starting a postdoctoral project on <em>Design and Understanding of Sensory Multimodality for Gesture and Tactile Interaction</em></li> <li><strong>Alyssa Lemoine</strong> is starting a PhD in co-supervision with Tifanie Bouchara (LISN, Paris Saclay) on <em>Personalised and Accessible extended Reality Musical Instruments for Practitioners-Patients Collaboration in Music Therapy</em></li> <li><strong>Ziyun Liu</strong> is starting a PhD in co-supervision with Ken Déguernel (CRIStAL/Algomus) on <em>Long-term and Curiosity-Driven Learning for mixed initiative musical co-creativity</em></li> </ul>2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:002025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-10-01:/mint-acm-icmi-2025.html<p><strong>Martin Birlouez</strong> presented his paper <em>AirSpartOne: One-Handed Distal Pointing for Large Displays on Mobile Devices and in Midair</em> at the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The paper is available <a href="https://hal.science/hal-05477235/file/Air_Spart_One_Project_HAL.pdf">here</a>.</p>2025-09-23T00:00:00+00:002025-09-23T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-09-23:/mintseamless-acm-vrst-2025.html<p><strong>Nathan Salin</strong> will present his paper <em>Toward Multimodal Asynchronous Collaboration in VR Artistic Creation with SPARK</em> at ACM VRST in November. The paper is available <a href="https://hal.science/hal-05273140v1">here</a>.</p>2025-09-01T00:00:00+00:002025-09-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-09-01:/new-team-member.html<p>Yosra Rekik joins the team as associate professor !</p>2025-05-10T00:00:00+00:002025-05-10T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-05-10:/mint-acm-dis-2025.html<p><strong>Pierrick Uro</strong> will present his paper <strong>Strategies for the Reconciliation of Artistic Intent and Technical Constraints in Mixed Reality Performances</strong> at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems in July.</p> <p>See <a href="https://dis.acm.org/2025/">https://dis.acm.org/2025/</a> for more informaion.</p>2025-05-05T00:00:00+00:002025-05-05T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-05-05:/mint-linux-audio-conference.html<p><strong>Florent Berthaut</strong> will present the paper <strong>GdPd / Ivmi-Builder : A Libre Software Framework for Extended Reality Musical Instruments and Immersive Sonic Installations</strong> at the Linux Audio Conference in June.</p> <p>See <a href="https://jimlac25.inria.fr/lac/">https://jimlac25.inria.fr/lac/</a> for more informaion.</p>2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:002025-05-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-05-01:/mint-nime-2025.html<p><strong>Pierrick Uro</strong> will present his paper <strong>Decoupling Physical and Virtual Spaces for New Collaboration Strategies in Co-Located Mixed Reality Instruments</strong> at the International Conference on <em>New Interfaces for Musical Expression</em> in June.</p> <p>See <a href="https://nime2025.org/">https://nime2025.org/</a> for more information.</p>2025-03-20T00:00:00+00:002025-03-20T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-03-20:/mint-was-at-ieee-vr-2025.html

<p><img alt="MINT@IEEEVR25" src="images/25IEEEVR.jpg" width="50%"></p> <p>The team presented three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :</p> <ul> <li> <p>"<strong>Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study</strong>" <em>(Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut)</em> can be accessed <a href="https://hal.science/hal-04938727">here</a></p> </li> <li> <p>"<strong>Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality</strong>" <em>(Pierrick Uro, Florent …</em></p></li></ul>

<p><img alt="MINT@IEEEVR25" src="images/25IEEEVR.jpg" width="50%"></p> <p>The team presented three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :</p> <ul> <li> <p>"<strong>Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study</strong>" <em>(Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut)</em> can be accessed <a href="https://hal.science/hal-04938727">here</a></p> </li> <li> <p>"<strong>Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality</strong>" <em>(Pierrick Uro, Florent Berthaut, Thomas Pietrzak, Marcelo Wanderley)</em>, it can be accessed <a href="https://inria.hal.science/hal-04936937v1">here</a></p> </li> <li> <p>the artistic installation "<strong>Reverberations</strong>" <em>(Sebastien Beaumont, Florent Berthaut)</em>. Here is the video : </p> </li> </ul> <p><iframe src="https://pod.univ-lille.fr/video/41789-reverberations-ieee-vr-2025-xrgallery/?is_iframe=true" width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0; border:0" allowfullscreen title="Reverberations @ IEEE VR 2025 XRGallery" ></iframe> </p>2025-01-21T00:00:00+00:002025-01-21T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-01-21:/mint-ieee-vr-2025.html

<p>The team will present three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :</p> <ul> <li> <p>the paper "<strong>Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study</strong>" <em>(Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut)</em></p> </li> <li> <p>the paper "<strong>Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality</strong>" <em>(Pierrick Uro …</em></p></li></ul>

<p>The team will present three projects at the IEEE VR Conference in March in Saint-Malo :</p> <ul> <li> <p>the paper "<strong>Examining the Design Process for 3D Interactions in Performing Arts : A Spatial Augmented Reality Cyber-Opera Case Study</strong>" <em>(Cagan Arslan, Florent Berthaut)</em></p> </li> <li> <p>the paper "<strong>Behavioral Measures of Copresence in Co-located Mixed Reality</strong>" <em>(Pierrick Uro, Florent Berthaut, Thomas Pietrzak, Marcelo Wanderley)</em></p> </li> <li> <p>the artistic installation "<strong>Reverberations</strong>" <em>(Sebastien Beaumont, Florent Berthaut)</em></p> </li> </ul>2025-01-01T00:00:00+00:002025-01-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2025-01-01:/new-phd-students-2024.html

<p>Two PhD students joined the team, in co-supervision with Valérie Gouranton and Ronan Gaugne @ IRISA, Rennes, and fully or partially funded by the <a href="https://pepr-ensemble.fr/">PEPR eNSEMBLE</a> :</p> <p><strong>Guillaume Vallet</strong> will investigate immersive participatory artistic performances, looking at new metaphors for collaboration between artists and audience members in virtual environments.</p> <p><strong>Nathan Salin</strong> will …</p>

<p>Two PhD students joined the team, in co-supervision with Valérie Gouranton and Ronan Gaugne @ IRISA, Rennes, and fully or partially funded by the <a href="https://pepr-ensemble.fr/">PEPR eNSEMBLE</a> :</p> <p><strong>Guillaume Vallet</strong> will investigate immersive participatory artistic performances, looking at new metaphors for collaboration between artists and audience members in virtual environments.</p> <p><strong>Nathan Salin</strong> will work on co-creation in virtual environments between different modalities (music, dance, visual art ...)</p>2024-08-29T00:00:00+00:002024-08-29T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2024-08-29:/mint-acm-audiomostly-2024.html<p><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> will present a review paper on 2D and 3D Musical Drawing at the ACM AudioMostly Conference in Milan in September.</p>2024-07-09T00:00:00+00:002024-07-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2024-07-09:/magnetip-nime-2024-video.html<p><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> presented a paper on a new approach and device for musical drawing in extended reality with a physical interaction loop at the NIME conference.</p> <p>Here is the video :</p> <p><iframe src="https://pod.univ-lille.fr/video/36913-magnetip-reintroducing-a-physical-interaction-loop-for-3d-musical-drawing-in-extended-reality/?is_iframe=true" style="width:100%;" allowfullscreen title="MagneTip: Reintroducing a Physical Interaction Loop for 3D Musical Drawing in Extended Reality" ></iframe> </p> <p>and here is the <a href="https://hal.science/hal-04649511/file/MagneTip.pdf">paper</a></p>2024-04-17T00:00:00+00:002024-04-17T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2024-04-17:/magnetip-nime-2024.html<p><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> will present a paper on a novel device for musical drawing in extended reality at the NIME conference in Utrecht in September.</p> <p>More details soon ...</p>2023-11-17T00:00:00+00:002023-11-17T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2023-11-17:/new-phd-students.html<p>Two PhD students joined the team ! </p> <p><strong>Esther Gruy</strong> will work on novel devices and techniques for expressive 3D interaction, in particular 3D musical drawing.</p> <p><strong>Martin Birlouez</strong> will work on semi-private proxemic interaction for co-located collaboration.</p>2023-03-24T00:00:00+00:002023-03-24T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2023-03-24:/mint-ihm-2023.html

<p>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.</p> <ul> <li><strong>"Cross-modal interaction of stereoscopy, surface deformation and tactile feedback on the perception of texture roughness in an active touch condition</strong>" The paper is accessible …</li></ul>

<p>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.</p> <ul> <li><strong>"Cross-modal interaction of stereoscopy, surface deformation and tactile feedback on the perception of texture roughness in an active touch condition</strong>" The paper is accessible <a href="https://hal.science/hal-04014962">here</a>.</li> </ul>2023-03-23T00:00:00+00:002023-03-23T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2023-03-23:/mint-nime-2023.html<p>A performance of the project <a href="https://vibrating-shapes.univ-lille.fr/">Vibrating Shapes</a> in collaboration with Sebastien Beaumont and Ivann Cruz, was selected to be presented at the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2023. </p> <p>It can be watched <a href="https://pod.univ-lille.fr/video/33742-vibrating-shapes-spatial-augmented-reality-performance-for-the-nime-2023-conference/">on this page</a> !</p>2022-09-26T00:00:00+00:002022-09-26T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2022-09-26:/artistic-collaborations.html

<p>Three artistic projects that use the revealed augmented reality technology created by the team :</p> <ul> <li>The Cyber-Opera <a href="https://terrev.univ-lille.fr">Terres Rares</a>, a collaboration with Éolie Songe, was presented at Grand Sud, Lille on September 23rd and 24th.</li> <li><a href="https://muzzix.info/Vibrating-Shapes">Vibrating Shapes</a>, a collaboration with Muzzix, was presented at the Forum des Sciences on September 25th …</li></ul>

<p>Three artistic projects that use the revealed augmented reality technology created by the team :</p> <ul> <li>The Cyber-Opera <a href="https://terrev.univ-lille.fr">Terres Rares</a>, a collaboration with Éolie Songe, was presented at Grand Sud, Lille on September 23rd and 24th.</li> <li><a href="https://muzzix.info/Vibrating-Shapes">Vibrating Shapes</a>, a collaboration with Muzzix, was presented at the Forum des Sciences on September 25th. Below a glance at the new prototype : <video width="300px" controls poster="./images/vs.png"> <source src="./videos/vs_forum22.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video></li> <li><a href="https://www.experimenta.fr/la-terre-reve-encore/">La Terre Rêve Encore</a>, an installation based on scenes from Terres Rares, will be presented at Experimenta 2022, on October 20-21-22.</li> </ul>2022-03-21T00:00:00+00:002022-03-21T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2022-03-21:/mint-nime-2022.html<p>The team will be presenting two papers at <a href="http://nime2022.org/">the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> :</p> <ul> <li><strong>"Vibrating shapes : Design and evolution of a spatial augmented reality interface for actuated instruments"</strong></li> <li><strong>"The Effect of Visualisation Level and Situational Visibility in Co-located Digital Musical Ensembles"</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>More details soon !</p>2022-02-22T00:00:00+00:002022-02-22T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2022-02-22:/revealed-augmented-reality-in-the-terres-rares-cyber-opera.html<p>The "revealed" augmented reality technology designed by the team (presented <a href="https://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/mint/revealed-interfaces.html">here</a> and <a href="https://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/mint/revealable-volume-displays.html">here</a> ) will be used in the cyber-opera "Terres Rares" created by <a href="https://www.eoliesonge.com/">Éolie Songe</a>. </p> <p>It will premiere in Grenoble on April 5th. </p> <p>More information on the collaboration <a href="https://terrev.univ-lille.fr/">here</a>.</p>2021-11-25T00:00:00+00:002021-11-25T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-11-25:/vincent-reynaert-phd-defense.html<p>Vincent Reynaert successfully defended his PhD on the "Study of Arm Fatigability during Mid-Air Gestual Interactions In Virtual Reality"</p> <p>Congratulations Vincent ! </p>2021-10-01T00:00:00+00:002021-10-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-10-01:/mint-interact-2021.html<p>Vincent Reynaert will be presenting a paper entitled <strong>The Effect of Rhythm in Mid-air Gestures on the User Experience in Virtual Reality</strong> at <a href="https://www.interact2021.org/">INTERACT 2021</a>.</p>2021-05-01T00:00:00+00:002021-05-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-05-01:/mint-new-interfaces-for-musical-expression-2021.html<p>Vincent Reynaert and Florent Berthaut presented papers at the <a href="http://nime2021.org/" title="International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression">International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)</a>.</p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>The Effect of Control-Display Ratio on User Experience in Immersive Virtual Musical Instruments</strong> (<a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03265169/file/c47be986-444a-423c-ab81-83abab65d3e0.pdf">Read the paper</a>)</p> <p><iframe width="300" height="120" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W2ksx96LQKw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Musical Exploration of Volumetric Textures in Mixed and Virtual Reality</strong> (<a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03260466/file/VolSound.pdf">Read the paper</a>)</p> <p><video width="300px" controls poster="./images/volsound.png"> <source src="./videos/volsound.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video></p> </li> </ul>2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:002021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-03-01:/revealable-volume-displays-ieee-vr-2021.html<p>Fatma Ben Guefrech presented the paper on "<strong>Revealable Volume Displays</strong>" at IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. The paper also received a honorable mention. </p> <p><a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03186282" title="Here is the link to the paper">You can read the paper here.</a> </p> <p>And here is the supporting video </p> <video width="300px" controls poster="./images/reveam.png"> <source src="./videos/rvd.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video>2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:002021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-02-01:/mintnime-2021.html<p>The team will be presenting two papers at <a href="http://nime2021.org/">the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> :</p> <ul> <li><strong>"The Effect of Control-Display Ratio on User Experience in Immersive Virtual Musical Instruments"</strong></li> <li><strong>"Musical Exploration of Volumetric Textures in Mixed and Virtual Reality"</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>More details soon !</p>2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:002021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:None,2021-01-01:/mint-ieee-vr-2021.html<p>The team will be presenting a paper at <a href="http://ieeevr.org/2021/" title="IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2021">IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2021</a> entitled : <strong>"Reveable Volume Displays : 3D Exploration of Mixed-Reality Public Exhibitions</strong>. More details soon !</p>