Publications by Nicolas Henchoz

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Automatic Content Curation of Visual Heritage

Mathieu Salzmann, Frédéric Kaplan, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, André Viegas Andrade

Digitization and preservation of large heritage induce high maintenance costs to keep up with the technical standards and ensure sustainable access. Creating impactful usage is instrumental to justify the resources for long-term preservation. The Museum fü ...

2021

Designing self-tracking experiences: A qualitative study of the perceptions of barriers and facilitators to adopting digital health technology for automatic urine analysis at home

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider, Margherita Motta

Self-tracking technologies open new doors to previously unimaginable scenarios. The diagnosis of diseases years in advance, or supporting the health of astronauts on missions to Mars are just some of many example applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

2023

Food Talks: visual and interaction principles for representing environmental and nutritional food information in augmented reality

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves

This user-centered design research project aimed to investigate visual and interaction principles for augmented reality (AR) in the context of environmental and nutritional food labelling. Nutritional information on existing food labels is often misunderst ...

2019

Designing Feedback Stimuli in Neurofeedback: Preliminary Requirements from Experts and Users

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Patrick Karl Alois Neff, Nicolas Gninenko, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Danpeng Cai

This study presents the first phase of a transdisciplinary research project aimed at improving the design of visual feedback stimuli in neurofeedback (NFB) applications. While current NFB research has focused extensively on signal processing and feature ex ...

IEEE2025

A user-centered design approach for crafting personalized guided meditation

Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Romain Simon Collaud, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Interest in technology supporting meditation continues to grow commercially and academically. Commonly, these approaches look at how audio-visual feedback based on physiological indicators can help induce a state of meditation. Haptic feedback is now seen ...

Elsevier BV2025

Storing cultural archives in synthetic DNA: An integrated prospective design investigation

Romain Yann Joseph-Marie Talou, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider

As cultural institutions digitize their archives, they become more accessible and versatile. However, there are significant economic and environmental costs to maintaining large databases over time. Synthetic DNA is an emerging technology that can store da ...

2022

Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Romain Simon Collaud, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Technology supporting meditation is a multimillion-dollar market that continues to grow. There is also strong academic interest to understand and improve the impact technology can have for the user experience of practitioners. However, little work investig ...

2023

SIGGRAPH for Health: Engaging Successfully in the Next Disruptions

Nicolas Henchoz

The intersection of technology and healthcare offers rich opportunities for rethinking research, industry and education in computer graphics and interactive techniques. This article presents the SIGGRAPH for Health workshop, which brings together diverse c ...

ACM2025

Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

Nicolas Henchoz, Andreas Sonderegger, Romain Simon Collaud

Icons play an important role in modern interfaces and therefore recent empirical research has focused on enhancing icon processing — that is, icon perception and icon function understanding. However, in existing sets, icons vary simultaneously across diffe ...

2022

Turning Augmented Reality into a media: Design exploration to build a dedicated visual language

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Nicolas Henchoz

This work collects the explorations conducted within the EPFL+ECAL Lab by several designers to interpret the various spheres of action of Augmented Reality in order to derive visual principles. These principles seek to contribute to developing a specific v ...

IEEE2011

Ming Shan Digital Experience

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Margaux Charvolin

The Ming Shan Digital Experience is an immersive installation designed to support meditation in the context of a new Taoist center. Its creation confronted current academic literature on digital technology for meditation with the practical and cultural req ...

2021

Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival's Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive Installations

Allison Elizabeth Crank, Nicolas Henchoz

To revive the Montreux Jazz Festival's archival live-concert footage, three immersive installations were designed using three different principles of augmentation, physicality and interaction. The primary aim was to engage the user in a new relationship wi ...

MIT PRESS2018

Trust Indicators and Explainable AI: A Study on User Perceptions

Hélène Michelle Portier, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Thanh Trung Phan

Nowadays, search engines, social media or news aggregators are the preferred services for news access. Aggregation is mostly based on artificial intelligence technologies raising a new challenge: Trust has been ranked as the most important factor for media ...

Springer2021

Artist Residencies for Innovation: Development of a Global Framework

Pierre-Xavier Georges Adrien Puissant, Nicolas Henchoz

Artists can play a major role in the success of innovation. The European program STARTS aims to increase their impact in high-tech environments. An international consortium has the mission to implement 45 residencies and set a complete framework for such p ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Advances on Real Time M/EEG Neural Feature Extraction

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Patrick Karl Alois Neff, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Danpeng Cai

This paper introduces MNE-RT, a Python package designed for real-time neural feature extraction from magne-toencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) signals in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. The package incorporates efficient algori ...

IEEE2025

Designing for Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, a Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Sebastian Eduardo Baez Lugo, Margherita Motta

Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed ...

DRS Digital Library2024

Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement

Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Andrea Regula Schneider, André Viegas Andrade

Though museums are digitising their archives, online consultations remain low. New forms of engagement bring these digital memories to life and can support museums in maintaining and developing digital resources. Artificial Intelligence presents opportunit ...

2022

Toward Automatic Typography Analysis: Serif Classification and Font Similarities

Syed Talal Wasim, Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Romain Simon Collaud

Whether a document is of historical or contemporary significance, typography plays a crucial role in its composition. From the early days of modern printing, typographic techniques have evolved and transformed, resulting in changes to the features of typog ...

2024

ANT - Advancing Neurofeedback (In Tinnitus)

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Danpeng Cai, Sebastian Eduardo Baez Lugo

The Advancing Neurofeedback in Tinnitus (ANT) project aims to develop improved neurofeedback protocols and BCI technology by systematically designing engaging feedback stimuli and optimizing neural targets. General design principles for audiovisual feedbac ...

IEEE2025

Editor's Note

Nicolas Henchoz

Assoc Computing Machinery2023