Sylvain Malacria

Loki group

Inria Centre at the University of Lille

Batiment B, bureau B102

40, avenue Halley - Park Plaza

59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Phone: +33 (0)3 59 35 8785

sylvain dot malacria at inria dot fr

Latest news:

2024 Oct. 1st:

Antoine Nollet just began his PhD on Automatic Information Management for Collaborative Spaces, co-supervised with Bruno Fruchard and Carla Griggio (from Aalborg University in Copenhagen). Welcom Antoine!

2024 Sep. 20th:

Very happy for Constant Yuan Chen who successfully defended his PhD on Pervasive Desktop Computing by Direct Manipulation of an Augmented Lamp Congratulations Dr. Chen. Wish you the best in the future.

2024 Aug. 1st:

Two papers were conditionnally accepted. The first is Vincent Lambert's paper on Studying the Simultaneous Visual Representation of Microgestures, accepted to MobileHCI 2024. The second is Suliac Lavenant's work on Studying the Perception of Vibrotactile Haptic Cues on the Hand and Forearm for Microgesture Interaction that will be presented at ISMAR. Congratulations Vincent and Suliac!

I am a research scientist (Chargé de Recherche 1ère classe, HDR) at Inria, in the Loki group, currently visiting Prof. Koji Yatani's' Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo as a JSPS Invited fellow. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University College London and at the University of Canterbury (New-Zealand). I did my Ph.D. at Télécom ParisTech, and passed my Master Degree at UPMC in Artificial Intelligence with a speciality in HCI. I am also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada (2021-2024).

My research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), with additional focus on designing interactive systems and interaction techniques that can be easily discovered and learned by novice users, while still yielding high performance to more practiced users. More generally, I am highly interested in how interaction can be communicated to the user to foster its discovery. If you are curious about my research, giving a look at the selected recent publications below should provide a decent overview.

I currently am the Principal Investigator of the ANR JCJC Discovery project (2020-2025) that investigates the design of Graphical User Interfaces that would better support the discovery of their interactive principles.

Selected recent Publications

Studying the Simultaneous Visual Representation of Microgestures (MobileHCI '24)
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Tutorial Mismatches: Investigating the Frictions due to Interface Differences when Following Software Video Tutorials (DIS '24)
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Clarifying and Differentiating Discoverability (HCI' 24)
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Statslator: Interactive Translation of NHST and Estimation Statistics Reporting Styles in Scientific Documents (UIST '23)
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Exploring Visual Signifier Characteristics to Improve the Perception of Affordances of In-Place Touch Inputs (MobileHCI '23)
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Studying the Visual Representation of Microgestures (MobileHCI '23)
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Charagraph: Interactive Generation of Charts for Realtime Annotation of Data-Rich Paragraphs (CHI '23)
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Ongoing student supervisions

Previous student supervisions

  • Constant Yuan Chen (Defended Sep. 20th 2024, co-supervised with Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel and Edward Lank)
  • Eva Mackamul (Defended Dec. 21st 2023, co-supervised with Géry Casiez -- Now Post Doc at Université Grenoble Alpes)
  • Damien Masson (Defended Aug. 2nd 2023, co-supervised with Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel and Edward Lank) -- Now Post Doc at University of Toronto)
  • Axel Antoine (Defended Jan. 29th 2021, co-supervised with Géry Casiez) -- Now lead software engineer at Stereograph
  • Nicole Pong (Defended Oct. 21st 2020, co-supervised with Stéphane Huot and Nicolas Roussel)