BIG::Tech is for Interactive Materials and Digital Fabrication
We are at the forefront in the creation of new interactive materials, technologies, and digital fabrication techniques to build new hardware and software systems that will form the basis of our future interactive devices. Our work also pioneers novel interaction techniques using a variety of input and output modalities, such as mixed reality, ambient technologies or haptic systems.
BIG::Tech Members
Doctoral Students
Faculty
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Anne Roudaut
Professor of Human Computer Interaction and the director of BIG -
Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of HCI and co-director of BIG -
Mike Fraser
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Researchers
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Jialin Deng
Research Associate -
Zhuzhi Fan
Research Associate
Visiting & Honorary
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Feng Feng
Visiting Researcher - Xinyuan Wang
Recent Publications
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Understanding Break-ability through Screen-based Affordances
Richard Grafton, Oussama Metatla & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. Honorable Mention -
"You Can Fool Me, You Can't Fool Her!": Autoethnographic Insights from Equine-Assisted Interventions to Inform Therapeutic Robot Design
Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. -
Encounter with the Giants: Understanding Interaction with Large-scale Inflatable Soft Robots
Immi Biswas, Emma Powell, Robert Nixdorf, Richard Sewell & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. -
Biomaterials for Prototyping in HCI
Madalina Nicolae, Vivien Roussel, Marion Koelle, Claire Lefez, Anne Roudaut, Aditya Nittala, Samuel Huron, Marc Teyssier & Jurgen Steimle
Mensch und Computer 2024-Workshopband, 2024. -
The perspective of soft-robotics for people with neurodegenerative diseases: Can we develop robotic solutions using soft material?
Immi Biswas, Elizabeth Coulthard & Anne Roudaut
Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 2024.