Supervised Students

PhD Students

Real-Time Cross-Media Data Exploration and Analysis for Next Generation Knowledge Workers, Ingela Rossing, February 2023 – now
Personal Knowledge Graph-based Assessment, Content Generation and Recommendation for Computing Education, Yoshi Malaise, December 2021 – now
A Design Toolkit for Knowledge Physicalisation and Augmentation, Isaac Valadez, June 2021 – now
Principles for Dynamic Data Physicalisation, Arun Sojan, June 2021 – now
Information System Architecture for the Julia-based Interoperable Framework for Simulation and Optimisation, Piet Van Der Paelt, joint PhD with the Royal Military Academy (RMA), April 2021 – now
A Modular Data Physicalisation Platform for Innovative Forms of High-dimensional Data Analysis, Xuyao Zhang, December 2020 – now
Towards a Middleware for Context-aware Implicit Human-Computer Interaction Across IoT Platforms, Ekene Attoh, January 2020 – now
Hybrid Positioning and Implicit Human-Computer Interaction, Maxim Van de Wynckel, October 2019 – now
Design Recommendations for Social Engagement Platforms: Towards Enhanced Technology Adoption for Elderly People and Long-Term Engagement, Dr. Renny Lindberg, September 2017 – July 2022
A Framework for Hybrid Real-Time Point Cloud Analysis, Payam Ebrahimi, July 2017 – April 2022
Mobile Playful Learning Environments: Conceptual Foundations for Informal Learning Environments in the Digital Age, Dr. Jan Maushagen, October 2016 – August 2021
eSPACE: Conceptual Foundations for End-User Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications, Dr. Audrey Sanctorum, September 2015 – July 2020
MindXpres: Conceptual and Technical Foundations for Next Generation Presentation Solutions, Dr. Reinout Roels, October 2012 – May 2019
Towards a Middleware for Context-aware Implicit Human-Computer Interaction Across Smart Environments, Lars Van Holsbeeke, October 2016 – September 2018
Enabling and Informing the Design of Cross-Media Personal Information Management Solutions, Dr. Sandra Trullemans, September 2013 – February 2018
Social Emergent Semantics for Personal Data Management, Cristian Vasquez Paulus, January 2014 – May 2017
A Dynamically Extensible Cross-Document Link Service, Dr. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh, October 2012 – October 2016
A Declarative Approach for Engineering Multimodal Interaction, Dr. Lode Hoste, January 2011 – June 2015
Beyond the Digital Capture of Paper Notes - Investigations of Enhanced Natural Notetaking based on Digital Pen and Paper Technology, Dr. Adriana Ispas, Diss ETH No. 20157, 2011 (co-supervision together with Prof. Moira C. Norrie)
A Publishing Infrastructure for Interactive Paper Documents: Supporting Interactions across the Paper-Digital Divide, Dr. Nadir Weibel, Diss ETH No. 18514, 2009 (co-supervision together with Prof. Moira C. Norrie)

Postdoc Students

May AI Help You? Human-AI Interaction in End-User User Interface Development, Dr. Audrey Sanctorum, FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, October 2020 – now
MindXpres and Next Generation Presentation Solutions, Dr. Reinout Roels, June 2019 – December 2021
Cross-Document Link Services, Dr. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh, November 2016 – March 2022
Cross-Media Personal Information Management, Dr. Sandra Trullemans, March 2018 – September 2019
Second Generation Mobile Cross-Media Applications: Scalability, Heterogeneity and Legacy (MobiCraNT), Dr. Bruno Dumas, February 2011 – January 2014

Master's Theses (available topics 2023/2024)

Designing for Collaboration: A Cooperative Knowledge Base for the Physicalisation Community, Lysa Roxana Kwizera, 2024
Designing Interactions Between Tangibles, Faroukh Davouzov, 2024
Looking at Code Through a Different Lens, Mishkat Haider Chowdhury, 2024
From Digital to AR: Developing an Augmented Reality Board, Abhinav Sidharthan, 2024
Next Generation Personal Information Management, Bilal Laaroussi El Alami, 2024
Extensible Dynamic Data Physicalisation Platform, Milan Ilic, 2024
Mobile-based Pedagogical Approaches for Programming Concepts, Mouzzam Tahir, 2024
Investigating Methods for Providing Device Discovery and Integration in Internet of Things Settings for End Users, Dana Tabatabaie Irani, 2024
Helping End Users Designing Better UIs, Erdogan Abaci, 2024
Mixed Reality-based Interaction with the Internet of Things, Yishen Yu, 2024
Using a Component-based Approach to Facilitate the Development of Internet of Things Environments, Ameer Hamza, 2024
Gamification in Education for Socially Vulnerable Groups, Inas Ghailani, 2024
Defining Abstract Narrative Graphs to Understand and Explain Code Bases, Stefan-Calin Crainiciuc, 2024
Using Tangibles to Support Serious Gaming in a Reception Centre for Unaccompanied Minors, Mark Stevic, 2024
Next Generation File System, Brent Willems, 2024
Heuristic Real-time Trajectory Prediction Using Spatio-temporal Databases, Ahmed Barhdadi, 2023
Interactive Music Visualisations With p5.js and Reactive Programming, Hanne Sips, 2023
SphereBurst: A Novel Approach for Data Physicalisation on a Sphere, Aubin Crispy Feupissie Wanche, 2023
Enabling the Generation of User Interfaces for Personalised IoT Applications for Non-Designers, Brenda Ordoñez Lujan, 2023
Integration of User-Defined Gesture Interaction Into End-User Authoring Tools, Bram Dewit, 2023
Inbox Harmony: A Recommendation System to Manage and Organise Emails Based on PIM Principles, Anisha Sachdeva, 2023
Identifying Devices Based on MAC Layer Properties, Benjamin Vermunicht, 2023
Helping End Users Design Better UIs, Hammad Ali, 2022
Towards Intelligibility in Multi-User IoT Environments, Artyom Kuznetsov, 2022
Investigating Algorithms for Helping End Users Create Better User Interface Designs, Song Mengyao, 2022
AR Concept Maps: Combining Augmented Reality and Tangibles to Elevate Standard 2D Concept Maps, Stijn Desloovere, 2022
Enhancing Learning Experience With Augmented Mind Maps, Himanshi Saxena, 2022
Investigation of a Grammar and Framework for New Forms of Data Exploration via Dynamic Data Physicalisation, Reihaneh Kalhor, 2022
An Innovative Video and Photo Messaging Solution: Design of a Lightful Unmanned Mobile Device, Gregory Beankens, 2021
Office of the Future: The Use of Augmented Reality in Personal InformationManagement, Claudia Vaquera, 2021
Design Guidelines for IoT Systems in Smart Companies, Jeroen Grégoire, 2021
Intertext: Towards a Secure and Platform Agnostic Front-end Ecosystem, Oguz Gelal, 2021
iSport: Towards a Smart Trainer Assistant, Yoshi Malaise, 2021
Mixed Reality-based Interaction for the Web of Things, Elena Zambon, 2021
Anonymous Contact Tracing Fusion, Yassine Bouagaz, 2021
Indoor Positioning by Visible Light Communication, Ronald Michiels, 2021
Comparison of SLAM Solutions with Exclusive Usage of LIDAR Observation Data, Ben Bergs, 2021
Dynamic Data Physicalisation for Exploring Geo-tagged Datasets, Ghassan Saliby, 2020
Applying Augmented Reality to Stimulate User Awareness in Urban Environments, Mohamed Arbaoui, 2020
Phixel: An Interactive Physical User Interface for Exploring Datasets, Xuyao Zhang, 2020
Using Augmented Reality to Control Device Interaction in a Web of Things Environment, Maxime Libert, 2020
An Augmented Reality Museum Guide, Alexandre Jacobs, 2020
EduKnow: A Framework for Structuring Educational Material - Mathematics as a Use Case, Eleni Ilkou, 2019
A Middleware for Smart Interactions Across Internet of Things Platforms, Yevhen Dukhno, 2018
Metaphors for the End-User Authoring of Web of Things and Cross-Device Applications, Satyam Kapoor, 2018
A Mixed Reality Solution for Indoor Navigation, Rencong Tang, 2018
Towards Investigating the Design Space of Data Physicalisation, Ahmed Kareem A. Abdullah, 2018
Mashup Tool for Distributed Physical-Digital User Interfaces, Tim Leenaers, 2018
An Extensible Presentation Framework for Real-time Data Acquisition, Interaction and Augmented Reality Visualisations, Kwinten Pardon, 2018
Opportunities for Distributed Physical-Digital User Interfaces, David Cino, 2018
A Framework for the Rapid Prototyping of Cross-Device Interaction, Kevin Van Ryckegem, 2018
TangHo: A Tangible Hologram Platform for Exploring Interactions with Data Through Mobile Simulated Data Physicalisation, Timothy Curtin, 2017
CrossWoW: Towards Rapid Prototyping of Cross-Device Interaction, Tom De Rycke, 2017
Making Wearables Fit the User: A Trigger-Action Programming Approach to Configure Wearables, Nicolas Carraggi, 2017
CastJS: A Web-based Context-aware Ambient Media Player System, Joeri Boonen, 2017
An Extensible Virtual Assistant for the PowerPoint Presentation Tool, Kushal Soni, 2017
A User-friendly and Device-independent Interface for Cross-Device Information Exchange, Arno De Witte, 2017
Distributed Multi-Touch User Interfaces for Modular Musical Expression, Jeroen Nyckees, 2017
TagVis: A Visualisation of Relationships Between Tags, Jan Maushaegen, 2016
Rule Sharing for the Context Modeling Toolkit, Lars Van Holsbeeke, 2016
PoPa: Policy-based Payment Hubs for Digital Payments, Tim Witters, 2016
Towards Advanced Task Management, Joachim Michiels, 2016
Enriching the XLink Standard with RSL Metamodel Features, David Sverdlov, 2016
An Ambient Information System for Smart Lab Environments, Marius Hirjanu, 2016
An Exploration of File Explorer Adaptation for Document Refinding, Vetrivel Dhanyamithra, 2016
An Extensible Platform for Real-Time Feedback in Presentation Training, Mohammed Zahir, 2016
TabletPoint: A Pen and Tablet-based Presentation Solution, Chunxiang Yan, 2016
Investigating Graph-based Storage Backends for Hypermedia Link Services, Jonas Vereycken, 2016
End User Control of Dynamic Distributed User Interfaces, Jasmien De Ridder, 2015
ADFIS: An Application Development Framework for Interactive Surfaces, Tim Vereecken, 2015
Content Migration and Layout for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Joris Vandermeersch, 2015
Big Brother is Watching Your Documents: A Framework to Manage Tracked Physical Data, Ayrton Vercruysse, 2015
Fluid Cross-Media and Cross-Device Interaction in the Office of the Future, Audrey Sanctorum, 2015
Note4u: An Advanced Notetaking Solution in Synergy With Your Memory, Payam Ebrahimi, 2015
Multimodal Interaction for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, David Bos, 2015
May the Personal Information Manager be With You: A Ubiquitous Distributed PIM System, Evgeni Ivakhnov, 2015
Intuitive Information Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Yves Baeten, 2015
Re-fining Physical Documents: It is Like a Dream Come True, Tim Reynaert, 2015
Enhanced Retrieval and Discovery of Desktop Documents, Ngoc Tran, 2015
AlinkTable: A Visualisation and Interaction Technique for Linked Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems, Toon Duwee, 2014
Tangible Exploration and Querying of Cross-Media Information Spaces, Antonios Kafazis, 2014
I Know What You Did With Your Documents: A Unified Tracking and Re-finding Framework, Trang Nguyen, 2014
Guided Data Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Jasper Debie, 2014
An Investigation of Adapting Document Structures, Serafeim Kourlos, 2014
Enhanced Visualisation of Web Links and Annotations, David Swalus, 2014
Intelligent Source Code Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Paul Mestereaga, 2014
Identification and Distribution of Cross-Media Entities in a Peer-to-Peer Environment, Barry D'Hoine, 2014
Dynamic Content in Fluid Cross-Media Documents, Jochen François, 2014
An Artwork Recommender System Based on User Profiles and Preferences, Daniel Velasquez, 2014
A Framework for Real-Time Emotion Recognition with an Online EEG-based BCI During Content Browsing, Sam Nielandt, 2014
A Framework to Provide User Control in Context-aware Systems, Wouter Mensels, 2014
Versioning in the Fluid Cross-Media Document Format, Paul Babatunde Otuyalo, 2014
Video-based Tracking of Physical Documents on a Desk, Ngole Sone Nsime, 2014
Fixing the Web: Combining Advanced Linking and Visualisation in HTML5 based on RSL, Roeland Matthijssens, 2013
Personal Cross-Media Information Management (V.Ir.Br. Award 2012-2013), Sandra Trullemans, 2013
Audience-driven Presentations Based on the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Christophe Vermeylen, 2013
A WYSIWYG Template Authoring Solution for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Jeroen Heymans, 2013
Automated Gesture Candidates for Full-Body Gesture Recognition, Benjamin Peetermans, 2013
MindXpres: An Extensible Content-driven Cross-Media Presentation Tool, Reinout Roels, 2012
An Extensible Framework for Indoor Positioning on Mobile Devices, Wouter Van Rossem, 2012
A Metamodel and Prototype for Fluid Cross-Media Document Formats, Ahmed A.O. Tayeh, 2012
Mobile Multimodal Interaction: An Investigation and Implementation of Context-dependent Adaptation, María Fernanda Solórzano, 2012
Co-located Collaborative Tabletop Interaction - An Evaluation and Extension of Design Guidelines, Luis Guillen Barja, 2012
Recognition of Deictic and Iconic Gestures for Home Automation, Brecht Van Laethem, 2012
Map-based Interaction Using Digital Pen, Stylus and Touch Screen - A Comparative Evaluation of Usability and Performance, Szabolcs Becze, 2012
The Next Generation of Input Devices - SpeeG version 2, Sven De Kock, 2012
SpeeG: A Speech- and Gesture-based Text Input Device, Jorn De Baerdemaeker, 2011
SynergE-Learning - A PaperPoint-based Lecture Capturing and Annotation Tool, Tom Antjon, 2011
A 3D Gesture Recognition Extension for iGesture, Johan Bas, 2011
An RSL-based Associative Filesystem, Gregory Cardone, November 2010
Extending the iGesture Framework with Multimodal Gesture Interaction Functionality (Baudouin Elleboudt Award 2011), Björn Puype, October 2010
Conference Information System - Analysis, Design and Implementation, Katinka Kromwijk, September 2008
Distributed Lookup Service for Interactive Paper Applications, Monica Frisoni, August 2007
iGesture: A General Gesture Recognition Framework, Ueli Kurmann, September 2006
Distributed Collaborative Information Environment based on iServer, Alexandre de Spindler, January 2005
Study into Potential Use of Digital Pen and Paper Technology at the SNF, Carlo Quirici, October 2004
Distributed iServer Architecture Based on Peer-to-Peer Concepts, Christian Heinzer, October 2003
jUSB - Java USB API for Windows, Michael Stahl, May 2003
XHTML Plug-in for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), Simon Schulé, October 2003
Visualisation of Tours and Trails, Corsin Decurtins, November 2001
Providing a Telephone Avalanche Warning Service using XIMA and VoiceXML, Peter Geissbuehler, October 2001
Providing a Telephone Avalanche Warning Service using XIMA and WML, Daniel Heiniger, October 2001
GOMS - A Geographical Object Management System, Raphael Huber, April 2001
CMServer - An Object-Oriented Framework for Website Development and Content Management, Michael Grossniklaus, November 2000
WAP Interface for OMS Java based on an XML Server Component, Matthias Kistler, April 2000
Framework for Web Information Systems based on OMS and Java Servlets, Michael Gut, November 1999

Bachelor's Theses (available topics 2023/2024 )

Using Augmented Reality for Enhanced Learning in Chemistry Education, Zoë Bellers, 2024
IoT Data Visualisation: A Creative Approach, Jonathin Witters, 2024
AR Photo Album, Bilal Laaroussi El Alami, 2024
Advanced Information Visualisation for Educational Settings, Rob Leemans, 2024
Using Minecraft as a Visualisation Tool for Teaching Computer Science, Silken Heynderickx, 2024
LiDAR Indoor Map Matching for Autonomous Robots, Jordan Shittu, 2024
End-User Authoring for Location-based Implicit Human-Computer Interaction, Stoffel Oostvogels, 2023
Location Tracking on a Physical Game Board, Nathan Hoebeke, 2023
Distributable Adaptive User Interfaces, Kevin Sam, 2022
Creating the Future: Using Existing Frameworks and Tools to Create a Hypermedia-enabled File System, Aaron Bogaert, 2022
Real-Time Localization and Visualization of a Sound Source, Taha El Hihi, 2022
Visualising Climate Change Data Using Virtual Reality, Nathan Pesch, 2022
Wi-Fi Signal Visualisation and Crowdsourcing, Ahmed Barhdadi, 2021
Helping End Users Become Better UI Designers, Mathieu Louis, 2021
A Framework for Mixed Reality, Arthur Chomé, 2019
Immersive Mixed Reality Experience for an Educational Context, Thomas Lieven Vaeyens, 2019
MRPaint: A Mixed Reality Competitive Game, Maxime Antoine, 2019
Museum of the Future: Towards a Mixed Reality Information Explorer, Brent Willems, 2018
Designing Customisable User Interface Distribution, Lander Demesmaeker, 2018
Context Rule Conflict Detection between Multiple Users and Environments, Mateusz Blommaert, 2017
Context-aware Media Adaptation for Information Displays, Linda de Corte, 2017
Towards a General Co-Creation and Communication Platform, Pieter Steyaert, 2017
Improving Our Love/Hate Relationship with Email, Kwinten Pardon, 2016
Advanced Linking and Annotations for Office Documents, Tom Stricks, 2015
Tracking my Digital Documents, Arno De Witte, 2015
A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Identifying and Tracking Paper Documents on Desks, Ayrton Vercruysse, 2014
Exploring Graph-based Visualisations for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Kevin Van Gyseghem, 2013
A Declarative Scale-, Rotation- and Position-invariant 3D Gesture Algorithm, Ruben Tytgat, 2013
Scratching the Surface, Audrey Sanctorum, 2013
Expressive Control of Augmented Reality During Live Music Performances, Toon Duwee, 2012
Extracting Context Information from Sensors, Toon Teugels, 2012
Exploring Information Through Advanced Visualisation Techniques, Bram Moerman, 2012
iGesture: Implementation and Evaluation of Advanced Gesture Detection Algorithms, Rik Vanmechelen, 2011
Paper-Digital Maps, Brecht Van Laethem, 2011
Pen and Paper-based Object Database Interface, Jeroen Heymans, 2011
iGesture Extension for 3D Input Devices, Arthur Vogels, November 2008
Remote Sketching on Paper, Hermann Hofstetter, August 2007
iFlash: A Flash Plug-in for iServer, Gianni Frey, April 2006
Active Component Authoring Tool, Samuel Willimann, October 2005
Interactive Paper Laboratory Notebooks, Ueli Kurmann, April 2005
Eclipse Plug-in for Jawin, Stefan Naegeli, April 2005
Paper-Based Cross-Media Authoring, Thomas Bruderer, April 2005
Advanced XHTML Plug-in for iServer, Stefan Malär, April 2005
Navigation Facilities for Paper-Based Tourist Information System for the Edinburgh Festivals, Sandra Brockmann, April 2005
Link Browser for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), David Mysicka, October 2004
Cross-Media Authoring Tool, Nina Laschet, October 2004
Bayesian Network for Prefetching Caches, Alexandre de Spindler, August 2004
Authoring Tool for Digitally Augmented Paper, Andreas Diener, May 2004
Active Components for iServer - In Consideration of Paper-Based Authoring, Philipp Bolliger, April 2004
QuickTime Movie Plug-in for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), Fabio Lanfranchi, August 2003
Java HID-USB API for Windows, Michael Stahl, October 2002
Voice-Based User Interface for the eXtensible Information Management Architecture (XIMA), Daniel Heiniger and Peter Geissbuehler, April 2001
E-Mail Application based on OMS Java, Claudia Saupper, April 2001
XML Export for OMS, Markus Haller, April 2001
JGraph - A Swing Component for Visualizing Graphs, Gaudenz Alder, December 2000
A Slim and Open Data Model for Public Transport Network using OMS, Raphael Huber, November 2000