Project summary

	Project no.: PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2020-0034; Contract no.: 12/2021
	Principal Investigator: Radu-Daniel Vatavu
	Funded by UEFISCDI, Romania
	Funding scheme: PNIII P3 - European and International Cooperation, Awarding Participation in Horizon 2020
	Running period: January 2021 - December 2022 (24 months)

Abstract

The goal of this project is to consolidate the institutional capacity of the Machine Learning and Information Visualization Research Laboratory (MintViz) toward increasing the expertise, visibility, and stimulating participation of its team members to the EU Framework Programme by means of continuous specialization in new interactive technologies in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Objectives

1. Consolidation of the capacity of the MintViz Research Laboratory to conduct scientific research in the area of new interactive technologies
2. Increase the international visibility of the MintViz Laboratory in its scientific domain of excellence
3. Stimulating submission of scientific research proposals together with international partners

Expected results

The expected results take the form of proposals for scientific projects and new scientific results toward consolidating the human resource of the laboratory, making optimum use of the research infrastructure, and increasing the international visibility of the research laboratory.

Team

Publications

	1.	Laura-Bianca Bilius, Ștefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2023). TIGER: A Tucker-based Instrument for Gesture Recognition with Inertial Sensors Pattern Recognition Letters 165, 84-90. Elsevier PDF | DOI | IF: 4.757 | 5-Year IF: 4.253 (JCR 2021) | WOS: 000961171800007
	2.	Adrian Aiordăchioae, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2022). LifeTags++: A Multi-User, Multi-Device, and Multi-Perspective System for Recording and Abstracting Visual Life with Tag Clouds. Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology 25(1), 80-91. Romanian Academy PDF | DOI | IF: 0.852 | 5-Year IF: 0.581 (JCR 2021) | WOS: 000775912300006
	3.	Alexandru-Ionuț Șiean, Cristian Pamparău, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2022). Scenario-based Exploration of Integrating Radar Sensing into Everyday Objects for Free-Hand Television Control. In Proceedings of IMX '22, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (Aveiro, JB, Portugal), 357-362. ACM, New York, NY, USA PDF | DOI
	4.	Jean Vanderdonckt, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2021). Extensible, Extendable, Expandable, Extractable: The 4E Design Approach for Reconfigurable Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 37(18), 1720-1736. Taylor & Francis PDF | DOI | IF: 4.920 | 5-Year IF: 4.503 (JCR 2021) | WOS: 000649613200001
	5.	Arthur Sluÿters, Jean Vanderdonckt, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2021). Engineering Slidable Graphical User Interfaces with Slime. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5 (EICS), Article no. 200, 1-29. ACM, New York, NY, USA PDF | DOI
	6.	Alexandru-Ionuț Șiean, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Jean Vanderdonckt. (2021). Taking That Perfect Aerial Photo: A Synopsis of Interactions for Drone-based Aerial Photography and Video. Proceedings of IMX'21, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (Virtual Event, NY, USA), 275-279. ACM, New York, NY, USA PDF | DOI
	7.	Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2021). Designing Interactive Experiences with Computer Systems that Understand Users’ Body Movement and Gestures. Keynote Speech at ECCO'21, the International Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computing (Hybrid Event, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova). PDF | DOI

Project reports (in Romanian)

1. Scientific report 2022 (in Romanian) PDF
2. Scientific report 2021 (in Romanian) PDF

Other resources (software and datasets)

1. Software application (node.js, HTML/JavaScript, and Java for Android) for the LifeTags++ system RAR | License . The archive also contains a sample extracted from our dataset of approximately 1,000 images captured using a pair of camera glasses (egocentric, eye-level perspective), clip-on video camera (egocentric, back view perspective), and an ambient IP video camera (providing an exocentric perspective). The full dataset is also available for research purposes, but because of privacy aspects regarding the captured snapshots, please contact Prof. Radu-Daniel Vatavu for signing a NDA and for more details about how to obtain the full dataset.