Digiscope - Collaborative Interaction with Complex Data and Computation (2011-2020) - http://digiscope.fr . “Equipment of Excellence” project funded by the “Invesissements d'Avenir” program of the French government. 10 academic partners: FCS Paris-Saclay (coordinator), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, CEA, INRIA, Institut Telecom ParisTech, Ecole Centrale Paris, Université Versailles - Saint-Quentin, ENS Cachan, Maison de la Simulation. Overall budget: 22.5 Meuros, including 6.7 Meuros public funding from ANR. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: coordinator and principal investigator for the whole project. The goal of the project is to create nine high-end interactive rooms interconnected by high-speed networks and audio-video facilities to study remote collaboration across interactive visualization environments. The equipment will be open to outside users and targets four main application areas: scientific discovery, product lifetime management, decision support for crisis management, and education and training. In Situ will contribute the existing WILD room, a second room called WILDER funded by the project, and its expertise in the design and evaluation of advanced interaction techniques and the development of distributed software architectures for interactive systems.

MDGest - Interacting with Multi-Dimensional Gestures (2011-2014). In Situ is the only academic partner. Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme JCJC (Junior researchers): 88 Keuros. Caroline Appert (coordinator) and Theophanis Tsandilas. This project investigates new interactions for small devices equipped with a touchscreen. Complementing the standard point-and-click interaction paradigm, the MDGest project explores an alternative way of interacting with a user interface: tracing gestures with the finger. According to previous work, this form of interaction has several benefits, as it is faster and more natural for certain contexts of use. The originality of the approach lies in considering new gesture characteristics (dimensions) to avoid complex shapes that can be hard for users to memorize and activate. Dimensions of interest include drawing speed (local or global), movement direction, device orientation or inclination, and distinctive drawing patterns in a movement.

HolyRisk - Scientific Uncertainty and Food Risk Regulation (2009-2013). 5 academic partners. Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme BLANC: 61 Keuros/702 Keuros. Emmanuel Pietriga: principal investigator for In Situ. This project is conducting a US/EU comparative empirical study that investigates the ways uncertainties are perceived, handled and expressed by experts throughout the food risk analysis process. In Situ is contributing a visual interface that allows efficient multi-scale navigation in a large corpus of annotated documents.

MLSN - Multi-Level Social Networks (2009-2012). 4 academic and industrial partners. Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), Programme VERSO: 177 Keuros/738 Keuros. Emmanuel Pietriga: principal investigator for In Situ. Real-time social network visualisation of multiplex social interactions. MLSN is based on recent findings in academic research on graph drawing/navigation techniques and on network analysis