Dr. Yi-Chi Liao

Dr. Yi-Chi Liao

Yi-Chi Liao is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Human Computer Interaction Lab. He completed his Ph.D. at Aalto University, Finland. Before that, he received both his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from National Taiwan University. Yi-Chi’s research primarily focused on computational interaction, with a specific focus on human-in-the-loop optimization and utilizing reinforcement learning techniques to model human motions. You can find out more about his […]

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Dr. Martin Schmitz

Dr. Martin Schmitz

Martin Schmitz is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University and an affiliated researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Previously, he held positions as research group leader at the Telecooperation Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He was also an affiliated researcher at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical […]

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Dr. Alice Haynes

Dr. Alice Haynes

Alice Haynes is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University. She carried out her PhD degree in the Soft Robotics Group at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK, creating emotive haptic interfaces for mediating social touch and providing anxiety relief. She received her integrated M.Eng. in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol, where her Master’s thesis was on fabricating […]

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Dr. Ata Otaran

Dr. Ata Otaran

Ata Otaran is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University. He carried out his PhD degree in the Robotics Group at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London and worked on using ankle gesture-based locomotion techniques for interacting with virtual environments. He received his M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering and B.Sc.in Mechatronics Engineering […]

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