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About me

Yoren Gaffary

  • Name: Yoren Gaffary
  • Affiliation: Lojelis
  • Position: Technical leader/Business developper in VR/AR
  • Research interests: Haptic perception, User studies, Virtual and Augmented Reality

Contact

  • Adress: EuraTechnologies, 165 Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, France
  • Email: yoren [dot] gaffary [at] lojelis [dot] com

Current position

Technical leader/Business developper in VR/AR at Lojelis

Lojelis

Lojelis is society specialized in consulting, edition and digital innovation. Their main fields of interest are Business Intelligence, Digital, Health and Training. Lojelis started a new innovation pole called Jeolis Solutions, with specialts from various fields of interests such as psychology, IA and VR/AR.

As a technical leader/Business developper, my job is to:

  • Monitor new technological/scientific in the VR/AR field.
  • Propose VR/AR solutions for Lojelis client's.
  • Publish scientific papers/Teach.

Publications

2023

  • Yoren Gaffary and Lisa Brelet
    Star Catcher: a Mobile App Using Augmented Reality and Gamification to Engage Users in Art Exhibitions
    Application Track of EuroXR, Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 29-December 1, 2023 [pdf]

2022

  • Lisa Brelet and Yoren Gaffary
    Stress reduction interventions: A scoping review to explore progress toward use of haptic feedback in virtual reality
    Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 [pdf]

2020

  • Guillaume Vailland, Yoren Gaffary, Louise Devigne, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi and Marie Babel
    Power Wheelchair Virtual Reality Simulator with Vestibular Feedback
    Modelling, measurement and control C, AMSE, 2020, 81, pp.35 - 42. [pdf]
  • Guillaume Vailland, Yoren Gaffary, Louise Devigne, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi and Marie Babel.
    Simulateur de Conduite de Fauteuil Roulant avec Retours Vestibulaires: Une Etude Pilote
    Handicap, June 10-12, 2020. [pdf]
  • Guillaume Vailland, Yoren Gaffary, Louise Devigne, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi and Marie Babel.
    Vestibular Feedback on a Virtual Reality Wheelchair Driving Simulator: a Pilot Study
    ACM/IEEE HRI, Cambridge, UK, March 23-26, 2020. [pdf]

2019

  • Guillaume Vailland, Fabien Grzeskowiak, Louise Devigne, Yoren Gaffary, Bastien Fraudet, Émilie Leblong, Florian Nouviale, François Pasteau, Ronan Le Breton, Sylvain Guégan, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi and Marie Babel
    User-centered design of a multisensory power wheelchair simulator: towards training and rehabilitation applications
    ICORR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 24-28, 2019. [pdf] [video]

2018

  • Yoren Gaffary and Anatole Lécuyer
    The Use of Haptic and Tactile Information in the Car to Improve Driving Safety: A Review of Current Technologies
    Frontiers in ICT, 2018 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Jean-Claude Martin et Mehdi Ammi
    Haptic Expression and Perception of Spontaneous Stress
    ACM Transactions on Affective Computing, 2018 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Maud Marchal, Adrien Girard, Fernando Argelaguet Sanz, Mathieu Emily, and Anatole Lécuyer
    Toward Haptic Communication: Tactile Alphabets Based on Fingertip Skin Stretching
    IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2018 [pdf] [video]
  • Jean-Claude Martin, Céline Clavel, Matthieu Courgeon, Mehdi Ammi, Michel-Ange Amorim, Yacine Tsalamlal and Yoren Gaffary.
    How do Users Perceive Multimodal Expressions of Affects?
    Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume Two, 2018

2017

  • *Yoren Gaffary, *Benoît Le Gouis, Maud Marchal, Ferran Argelaguet, Bruno Arnaldi and Anatole Lécuyer.
    AR Feels "Softer" than VR: Haptic Perception of Stiffness in Augmented versus Virtual Reality
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2017 [pdf] [video]
*: first co-authors

2016

  • Yoren Gaffary, Maud Marchal, Adrien Girard, Marine Pellan, Anouk Asselin, Benoit Peigne, Mathieu Emily and Anatole Lécuyer
    Studying one and two-finger perception for the discrimination of tactile directional cues
    Eurohaptics, London, UK, July 4-7, 2016 [pdf]

2015

  • Yoren Gaffary, David Antonio Gomez Jauregui, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Gestural and Postural Reactions to Stressful Event: Design of a Haptic Stressful Stimulus
    Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction WAT workshop, Xi'an, China, September 21-24, 2015 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Perception of Congruent Facial and Kinesthetic Expressions of Emotions
    Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction WAT workshop, Xi'an, China, September 21-24, 2015
  • Yoren Gaffary
    Communication kinesthésique des émotions dans un contexte d'interaction homme-machine
    Thèse de doctorat, 18 juin 2015 [pdf]
  • Mehdi Ammi, Virginie Demulier, Sylvain Caillou, Yoren Gaffary, Yacine Tsalamlal, Jean-Claude Martin and Adriana Tapus
    Haptic Human-Robot Interaction in a Handshaking Social Protocol
    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2-5, 2015 [pdf]

2014

  • Yoren Gaffary, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Perception of Congruent Facial and Haptic Expressions of Emotions
    ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, Vancouver, Canada, August 8-9, 2014, 135 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Haptic Expressions of Stress During an Interactive Game
    Eurohaptics, Versailles, France, June 24-26, 2014, 266-274 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Victoria Eyharabide, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    The Impact of Combining Kinesthetic and Facial Expression Displays on Emotion Recognition by Users
    Special Issue of the International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, entitled "Does Touch Matter?: The Effects of Haptic Visualization on Human Performance, Behavior and Perception", 30(11), November, 2014 [pdf] [bib]

2013

  • Florimond Guéniat, Julien Christophe, Yoren Gaffary, Adrien Girard and Mehdi Ammi
    Tangible Windows for a free Exploration of Wide 3D Virtual Environment
    ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Singapore, October 6-8, 2013, 115-118 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    How to Collect Haptic Expressions of Spontaneous Emotions ? Methodological considerations.
    Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction MeTA workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2-5, 2013, 776-779 [pdf] [bib]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Victoria Eyharabide, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Clustering Approach to Characterize Haptic Expressions of Emotions
    ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 10(4), October, 2013 [pdf]
  • Yoren Gaffary, Victoria Eyharabide, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Comparison of Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Affective Haptic Expressions
    International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, Daejeon, Korea, 7989, April 18-19, 2013, 69-78 [pdf]

2012

  • Yoren Gaffary, Victoria Eyharabide, Jean-Claude Martin and Mehdi Ammi
    Comparison of Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Affective Haptic Expressions
    ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, Los Angeles, California, USA, August 3-4, 2012, 128 [pdf] [bib]
  • Florimond Guéniat, Yoren Gaffary, Luc Pastur and Mehdi Ammi
    Haptic stimulus for the discrimination between intrinsic properties of dynamic systems
    EuroHaptics, Tampere, Finland, June 12-15, 2012, 37-42 [pdf]

CV

University cursus

  • 2015 - PhD in Computer Science (Paris XI Sud University).
  • 2011 - Master of Information, Learning and Cognition (Paris XI Sud University) with merit.

Skills

  • Development
    • Windows et Linux platform
    • Unity & VR/AR SDKs
    • C, C++, Python
    • HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP/Wordpress

  • Hardware
    • HTC Vive & Hololens
    • Leap Motion
    • Robots
    • Arduino

  • 2D and 3D
    • GIMP, Inkscape
    • Blender

  • Languages
    • English C1 (fluent)
    • German A1 (beginner)
    • Japanese A1 (beginner)

Professional experiences

  • since 2020 - Technical leader/Business developper in VR/AR at Lojelis.
  • 2017-2019 - Research engineer for designing kinesthetic feedback for a power wheelchair at INSA, Rennes.
  • 2015-2017 - Post-doc on "Perception and use of tactile rendering displays" at the INRIA lab, Rennes.
  • 2011 - 2015 - PhD Thesis on "Haptic communication of emotions & virtual humans" at the LIMSI/CNRS laboratory.
  • 2011 - Training course on "Kinesthetic approach for affective communication with virtual humans", Architecture and Models of Interaction, LIMSI/CNRS.
  • 2010 - Training course on "Haptic platform for study of dynamic systems in real-time", Architecture and Models of Interaction, LIMSI/CNRS.
  • 2009 - Training course on "Control of a speech synthesizer with meta-instrument device", Audio & Acoustic, LIMSI/CNRS.

Reviewer

  • 2021
    • 2 papers reviewed for IEEE WHC
  • 2020
    • 1 paper reviewed for IEEE Systems Journal
  • 2014-2019
    • 2 papers reviewed for Ergonomics
    • 1 paper reviewed for ISMAR
    • 1 paper reviewed for HAI
    • 4 papers reviewed for Eurohaptics
    • 1 paper reviewed for ICMI
    • 1 paper reviewed for HRI

Teaching

  • 2014 - 2015
    • Computer graphics (Polytech, 16h)
    • Haptics (M2, 3h)
    • Computer graphics (L1, 76h)

  • 2012 - 2013
    • Computer graphics (L3, 15h)
    • Web programming (L2, 40h)

  • 2011 - 2012
    • Haptics (M2, 13.5h)
    • Web programming (L2, 40h)
    • Coordination des TP1 (S1, 15h)

Other personal interests

  • Social psychology
  • Acting
  • Music production & Drawing