Hello, I’m Lendy! I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Sensor-based Robotics and Human Interaction (Rainbow) team at INSA Rennes and IRISA in Rennes, France.
I am passionate about haptics, and especially about the rendering and perception of ultrasound mid-air haptic feedback. I am also interested in virtual reality, human-computer interactions, and perception in general.
I am currently pursuing a PhD about the design of coupling schemes for ultrasound haptic rendering in virtual reality, under the supervision of Maud Marchal (INSA Rennes, IUF) and Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS).
PhD (Haptics / Computer Science), 2022 - 2025
INSA Rennes / IRISA, France
Master of Research (Computer Science), 2020 - 2022
University of Rennes 1, France
Bachelor (Computer Science), 2019 - 2020
University of Rennes 1, France
Magistère (Computer Science), 2019 - 2022
École Normale Supérieure of Rennes, France
Preparatory classes (MPSI / MP*), 2017 - 2019
Lycée Carnot, France
Mother tongue
C1
Beginner level
Since 2023
Since 2023
Arduino beginner
Aeronautical initiation certificate obtained in 2013
Design of coupling schemes for ultrasound haptic rendering in virtual reality
Supervised by Maud Marchal, and Claudio Pacchierotti - Rainbow team
Ultrasound haptic rendering for bimanual interactions in virtual reality
Supervised by Thomas Howard, Maud Marchal, and Claudio Pacchierotti - Rainbow team
Adapting DOLPHIN (framework for the design and evaluation of ultrasound mid-air haptic stimuli, developed during my research project) to a new API enabling the control of the haptic interfaces by Ultraleap
https://gitlab.com/h-reality/dolphin/-/tree/ultraleap_sensation
Supervised by William Frier - Ultraleap
Software for the study of the perception of geometric shapes rendered using ultrasound haptic interface
https://gitlab.com/h-reality/dolphin
Supervised by Thomas Howard, Guillaume Gicquel, Maud Marchal, and Claudio Pacchierotti - Rainbow team
Implementing a multi-view stereo method for temporally consistent facial capture
https://github.com/ZeGmX/facial_capture_stereo
Supervised by Adnane Boukhayma - MimeTIC team
[2023 - Present] Student representative to the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Haptics
[2022 - Present] Reviewer
international journals: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH)
international conferences: IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), IEEE World Haptics (WHC), IEEE Haptics Symposium, EuroHaptics, ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI)
[July 2021] Student volunteer at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC)
[2022 - 2023] Sarah Emery (M1 SIF, ENS Rennes, University of Rennes)
Dolphin3D: Rendering 3D objects using ultrasound haptic interfaces
Co-supervised with Thomas Howard
[2024] Lecture-tutorial and practical sessions • Java programing and algorithmic (INSA Rennes, STPI department, 2nd year)
[2023] Lecture-tutorial and practical sessions • Initiation to Java programming (INSA Rennes, STPI department, 1st year)
[2022 - 2023] Practical sessions • Design of innovative applications for health (INSA Rennes, CS department, 4th and 5th years)
[2022] Project • Internet of things (INSA Rennes, CS department, 4th and 5th years)
Browse the complete publication list here.
All PDFs are available on HAL.
Ultrasound mid-air haptic (UMH) devices can remotely render vibrotactile shapes on the skin of unequipped users, e.g., to draw haptic icons or render virtual object shapes. Spatio-temporal modulation (STM), the state-of-the-art UMH shape-rendering method, provides large freedom in shape design and produces the strongest possible stimuli for this technology. Yet, STM shapes are often reported to be blurry, complicating shape identification. Dynamic tactile pointers (DTP) were recently introduced as a technique to overcome this issue. By tracing a contour with an amplitude-modulated focal point, they significantly improve shape identification accuracy over STM, but at the cost of much lower stimulus intensity. Building upon this, we propose spatio-temporally-modulated Tactile Pointers (STP), a novel method for rendering clearer and sharper UMH shapes while at the same time producing strong vibrotactile sensations. We ran two human participant experiments, which show that STP shapes are perceived as significantly stronger than DTP shapes, while shape identification accuracy is significantly improved over STM and on par with that obtained with DTP. Our work has implications for effective shape rendering with UMH and provides insights that could inform future psychophysical investigation into vibrotactile shape perception in UMH.
If you have any questions about my research or if you would like to collaborate, feel free to contact me!