DeltaPen
High-Precision Translation and Rotation Sensing on Passive Surfaces.
ACM UIST 2022.
Research projects
Our research spans the areas of computational interaction, physical computing, virtual/mixed reality and haptics, and predictive mobile health monitoring. See also the list of our releases. For all general inquiries and requests, email Christian at christian/holz#inf/ethz/ch.
The projects below are selected from a subset of our research output. See our full list of publications here.
AvatarPoser
Articulated Full-Body Pose Tracking from Sparse Motion Sensing.
ECCV 2022.
ComforTable User Interfaces
Passive surfaces benefit input performance, speed, and lower exertion and strain in Mixed Reality.
IEEE ISMAR 2022.
Physiological Responses to Fear, Frustration, and Insight
A study in Virtual Reality.
IEEE TVCG 2022.
Cognitive Fatigability Assessment Test
A novel instrument to assess perceived fatigue.
DIGITAL HEALTH 2022.
Causality-preserving Asynchronous Reality
Where everything remains real except the flow of time.
ACM CHI 2022.
Best paper award.
TapType
Ten-finger text entry on everyday surfaces via Bayesian inference.
ACM CHI 2022.
Affective State Prediction
From Smartphone Touch and Sensor Data in the Wild.
ACM CHI 2022.
The Chaotic Behavior of Redirection
Revisiting Simulations in Redirected Walking.
IEEE VR 2022.
Best paper award.
SoundsRide
Affordance-Synchronized Music Mixing for In-Car Audio Augmented Reality.
ACM UIST 2021.
Best paper award.
TouchPose
Hand Pose Prediction, Depth Estimation, and Touch Classification from Capacitive Images.
ACM UIST 2021.
AirConstellations
In-Air Device Formations for Cross-Device Interaction via Multiple Spatially-Aware Armatures.
ACM UIST 2021.
TransforMR
Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate Mixed Realities.
IEEE ISMAR 2021.
Gaze comes in handy
Predicting and Preventing Erroneous Hand Actions in AR-Supported Manual Tasks.
IEEE ISMAR 2021.
Predicting Fatigue from Fatigability
A phone-based in-the-wild Study with Multiple Sclerosis Patients.
ACM IMWUT 2021.
CoolMoves
User Motion Accentuation in Virtual Reality.
ACM IMWUT 2021.
CapContact
Super-resolution Contact Areas from Capacitive Touchscreens.
ACM CHI 2021.
Best paper award.
TapID
Rapid Touch Interaction in Virtual Reality using Wearable Sensing.
IEEE VR 2021.
Best demonstration award.
Flashpen
A High-Fidelity and High-Precision Multi-Surface Pen for Virtual Reality.
IEEE VR 2021.
Haptic PIVOT
On-Demand Handhelds in Virtual Reality.
ACM UIST 2020.
Omni
Volumetric Sensing and Actuation of Passive Magnetic Tools for Dynamic Haptic Feedback.
ACM UIST 2020.
SurfaceFleet
Exploring Distributed Interactions Unbounded from Device, Application, User, and Time.
ACM UIST 2020.
Tilt-Responsive Techniques for Digital Drawing Boards
ACM UIST 2020.
Virtual Reality Without Vision
A Haptic and Auditory White Cane to Navigate Complex Virtual Worlds.
ACM CHI 2020.
Honorable mention award.
Assessing Fatigability in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
A Rapid Tapping Task for Phone-based Mobile Health.
ACM CHI 2020.
Towards Privacy-Preserving Ego-Motion Estimation using an Extremely Low-Resolution Camera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020.
DreamWalker
Substituting Real-World Walking Experiences with a Virtual Reality.
ACM UIST 2019.
CapstanCrunch
A Haptic VR Controller with User-supplied Force Feedback.
ACM UIST 2019.
Best demonstration honorable mention award.
Mise-Unseen
Using Eye Tracking to Hide Virtual Reality Scene Changes in Plain Sight.
ACM UIST 2019.
TORC
A Virtual Reality Controller for In-Hand High-Dexterity Finger Interaction.
ACM CHI 2019.
Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets
ACM CHI 2019.
Honorable mention award.
SeeingVR
A Set of Tools to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible to People with Low Vision.
ACM CHI 2019.
RealityCheck
Blending Virtual Environments with Situated Physical Reality.
ACM CHI 2019.
Cross-Device Taxonomy
Survey, Opportunities and Challenges of Interactions Spanning Across Multiple Devices.
ACM CHI 2019.
VRoamer
Generating On-The-Fly VR Experiences While Walking inside Large, Unknown Real-World Building Environments.
IEEE VR 2019.
Naptics
Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring during Sleep.
ACM IMWUT 2018.
Smartphone Pulse Oximetry
Phone displays for selective illumination and cameras as sensors.
IEEE EMBC 2018.
Project Zanzibar
A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform.
ACM CHI 2018.
Best paper award.
Haptic Revolver
Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller.
ACM CHI 2018.
Honorable mention award.
CLAW
A Multifunctional Handheld Haptic Controller for Grasping, Touching, and Triggering in Virtual Reality.
ACM CHI 2018.
Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Navigate Virtual Reality with a Haptic and Auditory Cane Simulation
ACM CHI 2018.
Haptic Links
Bimanual Haptics for Virtual Reality Using Variable Stiffness Actuation.
ACM CHI 2018.
SurfaceConstellations
A Modular Hardware Platform for Ad-Hoc Reconfigurable Cross-Device Workspaces.
ACM CHI 2018.
PolarTrack
Optical Outside-In Device Tracking that Exploits Display Polarization.
ACM CHI 2018.
Glabella
Smart Glasses for Continuously Monitoring Blood Pressure.
ACM IMWUT 2017.
Distinguished paper award.
Sparse Haptic Proxy
Touch Feedback in Virtual Environments Using a General Passive Prop.
ACM CHI 2017.
Finding Common Ground
A Survey of Capacitive Sensing in Human-Computer Interaction.
ACM CHI 2017.
DualBlink
Detecting, Tracking, and Actuating Blinking For Alleviating Dry Eyes and Computer Vision Syndrome.
ACM IMWUT 2017.
NormalTouch and TextureTouch
High-fidelity 3D Haptic Shape Rendering on Handheld Virtual Reality Controllers.
ACM UIST 2016.
Honorable mention award.
DuoSkin
Rapidly Prototyping On-Skin User Interfaces Using Skin-Friendly Materials.
ACM ISWC 2016.
Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction
ACM CHI 2016.
On-Demand Biometrics
Fast and Convenient Cross-Device Login.
ACM CHI 2016.
Tracko
Ad-hoc Mobile 3D Tracking Using Bluetooth Low Energy and Inaudible Signals for Cross-Device Interaction.
ACM UIST 2015.
Biometric Touch Sensing
Seamlessly Augmenting Each Touch with Continuous Authentication.
ACM UIST 2015.
Bodyprint
Biometric User Identification on Mobile Devices Using the Capacitive Touchscreen to Scan Body Parts.
ACM CHI 2015.
Fiberio
A Touchscreen that Senses Fingerprints.
ACM UIST 2013.
Best paper award.
Implanted User Interfaces
ACM CHI 2012.
Understanding Touch
ACM CHI 2011.
The Generalized Perceived Input Point Model
How to Double Touch Accuracy by Extracting Fingerprints.
ACM CHI 2010.
Releases
SVG2Keynote
Convert SVG documents to editable Apple Keynote shapes.