CNRS (EHCI research group at LIG lab)

Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) research group is one of the 24 research teams of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG). EHCI is primarily concerned with the software aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. Its mission is to define new concepts, models and tools for designing, implementing, and evaluating interaction techniques that are effective, usable, and enjoyable. This group has extensive experience in software architecture for interactive systems, multimodal and mixed reality interaction, context-aware distributed and migratory user interfaces.

Céline Coutrix is a researcher at CNRS. Her work addresses interaction that seeks to smoothly merge physical and digital worlds, and targets both end-user and designers.

Alix Goguey is an associate professor at Grenoble Alpes University. His research focuses on exploring new modalities to augment the interaction bandwidth, and provide enriched interaction techniques.

Laurence Nigay is a professor at Grenoble Alpes University. Her research TODO.

Laura Pruszko is a PhD student at Grenoble Alpes University. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction with modular systems.

Quentin Roy is an associate professor at Grenoble Alpes University. His research focuses on complex activities that require the use of elaborate software integrating diverse functions, and human interaction with automation.

Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté (OMNI research group at FEMTO-ST lab)

Julien Bourgeois is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Franche-Comté in France. He is part of the Complex Networks Team (DISC/OMNI) of the FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS. His research interests include Programmable Matter and Distributed intelligent MEMS (DiMEMS). He has worked for more than 15 years on these topics and has co-authored more than 200 international publications. He is leading the Programmable Matter Project whose aim is to build amatter composed of autonomous mm-scale robots.

Benoît Piranda is associate professor (HDR) of Computer Science at the University of Franche-Comté in France. He is part of the Complex Networks Team (DISC/OMNI) of the FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS. His main domains of research are Distributed Programming, Physical and Visual Simulations of Robots and Computer Graphics and he is an active member of many projects on Programmable Matter and Distributed Algorithms. He leads the development of the VisibleSim software which is a behavioral simulator of modular robots, this simulator executes in parallel a code running in thousands of connected modules, simulates communications, motions, and various sensors and actuators...

Abdallah Makhoul is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Franche-Comté in France. He is part of the computer science department(DISC) of the FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS. He is the head of the research team OMNI. His research focuses upon the following areas: distributed algorithms for programmable matter and AI for industry 4.0. He has a record of about 140 scholarly publications.

Jaafar Gaber is associate Professor of Computational Sciences and Computer Engineering at University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard UTBM . He is part of the Complex Networks Team (DISC/OMNI) of the FEMTO-ST Institute. His research interests include Programmable Matter and Smart materials, Distributed systems, networks and algorithms. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Nancy Awad is associate professor at the University of Franche-Comté, conducting research with the OMNI team of the FEMTO-ST lab. Her research interests include Privacy Preservation and Programmable Matter.

Frédéric Lassabe is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard in France. He is part of the computer science department at FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS. His main topics of interest are Distributed Systems, and Indoor Positioning Systems. He leads the development of the embedded system of the Blinky Blocks robots, the team's first step towards programmable matter.

Gilles Abdel is a PhD student at the University of Franche-Comté in France. He is part of the Complex Networks Team (DISC/OMNI) of the FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS. His research focuses on fault tolerance in programmable matter applications.