Augmented and Physical reality environments used in collaborative visual analysis

Speaker : Raphaël JAMES

The defense will take place on the 16th of February at 2:30pm at the amphitheater of building 660, Avenue des Sciences, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (https://goo.gl/maps/J5cxouo2bQzUoVZ2A)

Abstract

Wall displays are a good medium to analyse and manipulate a large amount of data, but they have drawbacks: working with several people on the same surface can cause conflict between users. Furthermore, the wall cannot display more information than its size allows. In this thesis, we work on combining Augmented Reality(AR) with the wall to investigate these issues. We first study how AR can provide a personal view to navigate a network displayed on a wall with 4 techniques of cursors displayed in AR and compare these techniques in two studies. Then, we study extending a wall using AR with a system adding space to manipulate content seamlessly between physical and virtual space, which we compare to a wall alone. But could we replace a wall with Virtual Reality(VR)? In a pilot experiment, we compare a physical wall to 2 VR headsets and a simulation of a perfect VR headset.

Jury

Reviewers

Gilles Bailly, Sorbonne Université, ISIR
Laurent Grisoni, Université de Lille, CRIStAL

Examiners

Petra Isenberg, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN
Valérie Gouranton, IRISA, Inria RENNES
Christophe Hurter, ENAC

Thesis Supervision

Anastasia Bezerianos, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN
Olivier Chapuis, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN