Design, Sensing, Applied ML
FULL CONFERENCE PAPERS
DIS 2024
GraspUI: Seamlessly Integrating Object-Centric Gestures within the Seven Phases of Grasping
Adwait Sharma, Alexander Ivanov, Frances Lai, Tovi Grossman, Stephanie Santosa
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2024 (DIS)
Design space for object-centric microgesture interactions throughout the grasping process, from pre-grasp to post-grasp phases.
DIS 2024
SeamSleeve: Robust Arm Movement Sensing through Powered Stitching
Olivia G Ruston, Adwait Sharma, Mike Fraser
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2024 (DIS)
Minimally invasive e-textile design that uses clothing seams as sensors for tracking arm movements in physiotherapy.
TEI 2024
Pic2Tac: Creating Accessible Tactile Images using Semantic Information from Photographs
Karolina Pakenaite, Eirini Kamperou, Michael J Proulx, Adwait Sharma*, Peter Hall* (*equal advising)
ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2024 (TEI)
Cost-effective system using computer vision to convert photos into tactile images.
CHI 2021
SoloFinger: Robust Microgestures while Grasping Everyday Objects
Adwait Sharma, Michael A Hedderich, Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Bruno Fruchard, Jess McIntosh, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Dietrich Klakow, Daniel Ashbrook, Jürgen Steimle
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021 (CHI)
Easy and rapid-to-perform gestures, which are resilient to false activations.
CHI 2019
Grasping Microgestures: Eliciting Single-hand Microgestures for Handheld Objects
Adwait Sharma, Joan Sol Roo, Jürgen Steimle
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 (CHI)
Analysis of over 2,400 user-generated microgestures while holding an everyday object.
Paper | Video | Video (30s) | Slides
UIST 2017
SmartSleeve: Real-time Sensing of Surface and Deformation Gestures on Flexible, Interactive Textiles, using a Hybrid Gesture Detection Pipeline
Patrick Parzer, Adwait Sharma, Anita Vogl, Jürgen Steimle, Alex Olwal, Michael Haller
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2017 (UIST)
Wearable textile that can detect 22 surface and deformation gestures in real-time.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
MTI 2024
Emotion-Aware In-Car Feedback: A Comparative Study
Kevin Fred Mwaita, Rahul Bhaumik, Aftab Ahmed, Adwait Sharma, Antonella De Angeli, Michael Haller
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2024
Personalized in-car feedback design guidelines developed by evaluating the impact of different feedback modalities on driver emotions and preferences.
TOCHI 2023
SparseIMU: Computational Design of Sparse IMU Layouts for Sensing Fine-Grained Finger Microgestures
Adwait Sharma, Christina Salchow-Hömmen, Vimal Suresh Mollyn, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Michael A Hedderich, Marion Koelle, Thomas Seel, Jürgen Steimle
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2022 (TOCHI)
Presented at CHI 2023
Minimally invasive e-textile design that uses clothing seams as sensors for tracking arm movements in physiotherapy.
Article | Project Page | Dataset | Code
SHORT PAPERS
CHI-EA 2024
DeformIO: Dynamic Stiffness Control on a Deformable Force-sensing Display
James David Nash, Cameron Steer, Teodora Dinca, Adwait Sharma, Alvaro Favaratto Santos, Benjamin Timothy Wildgoose, Alexander Ager, Christopher Clarke, Jason Alexander
ACM Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI-EA)
Deformable display that supports continuous force input and output, multi-touch interaction, and variable stiffness control.
IMX Workshop 2024
Accelerating XR Innovation through a pan-European Lab Network: An Overview of the EMIL Project
Justus Blönnigen, Christopher Clarke, Andreas Dahn, Lisa Forelli, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Tuija Heikura, Volker Helzle, Paul Hine, Crescent Jicol, Alexander Kreische, Elisa Macedo Lopes, David Maillard, João Marques, Christoph Mathis, Alina-Maria Moldovan, Jan Müller, Louis Nisiotis, Yiannos Panteli, Bart Rienties, Adwait Sharma, Neil Thomson, Zsolt Wilhelm, Aseel Yahya, José-Alberto Zurdo Urbano
ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences Workshops 2024 (IMX)
Pan-European network of XR labs to accelerate the development of AR/VR/MR technologies and content through funding and collaboration opportunities.
CHI-EA 2023
Design and Fabrication of Body-Based Interfaces (Demo of Saarland HCI Lab)
Jürgen Steimle, Marie Muehlhaus, Madalina Luciana Nicolae, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Narjes Pourjafarian, Adwait Sharma, Marc Teyssier, Marion Koelle, Bruno Fruchard, Paul Strohmeier
ACM Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 (CHI-EA)
People's Choice Best Demo Award at CHI'23
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MobileHCI Workshop 2022
Utilizing Interactive Technologies to Encourage Healthy Dietary Behavior
Anuradha Herath, Adwait Sharma, Aditya Shekhar Nittala
ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2022 (MobileHCI Adjunct)
Workshop on interactive technologies to promote healthy eating habits.
THESIS
PhD Thesis
Design and Recognition of Microgestures for Always-Available Input
Adwait Sharma (2022)
Committee: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle, Prof. Dr. Daniel Vogel, Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger, Dr. Alice Haynes
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Saarland University, Germany
