Romain GUILLAUME

Semantic integration of Airbus's VR tool and its advanced CAD environment for avionics architecture design in an immersive collaborative mode
Supervisors: Jérôme PAILHES (I2M), Elise GRUHIER (I2M), Ruding LOU
Funding: Cifre Airbus
Defended on July 21st, 2026

Jinxue CUI

Contribution to the integration of additive manufacturing and augmented reality in early design phase to foster creativity
Supervisors: Frédéric SEGONDS (LCPI), Ruding LOU
Defended on June 23rd, 2026

Axel FOLTYN

Modeling Expertise Level and Hesitation Through Motion Analysis for Industrial Maintenance
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Christophe GUILLET, Florence DANGLADE
Funding: ANR VIMACO
Defended on May 12th, 2026

Nicolas VISBECQ

Augmented Reality Visual Aids to Improve the Driver's Perception of the Vehicle's Surroundings
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Philippe FARRUGIA (LIRIS), Mahdiyeh MOOSAVI
Funding: Cifre Volvo Trucks
Defended on March 24th, 2026

Aya MIDAOUI

Contribution to Real-Time Assistance for Blacksmiths in Hot Drawing: Design of a Digital Twin for Temperature Field Monitoring
Supervisors: Régis BIGOT (LCFC), Cyrille BAUDOUIN, Florence DANGLADE
Defended on February 5th, 2026

Eloïse MINDER

Optimization of social interactions in virtual reality
Supervisors: Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Christophe GUILLET, Sylvain FLEURY (LAMPA)
Funding: Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Defended on November 10th, 2025

Shamimi MOHD ZUKI

ADAPT-MOVE: A Model for Enhancing Motor Learning Through Virtual Reality
Supervisors: S. SULAIMAN (UTP), D. RAMBLI (UTP), Christophe GUILLET, Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Co-tutelle avec UTP (Malaysie)
Defended on June 24th, 2025

Tingcheng LI

Machine learning-based 3D scan coverage estimation for smart control applications
Supervisors: Jean-Philippe PERNOT (LISPEN Aix), Arnaud POLETTE (LISPEN Aix), Ruding LOU
Funding: Cifre I-MC
Defended on January 13th, 2025

Guillaume KLEIN

Telecollaboration for maintenance support
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Jérémy PLOUZEAU, Guillaume BINET (Suez), Laurent MONNOT (Suez)
Funding: Direct contract Suez
Defended on December 13th, 2024

Valérian FAURE

Methodology for validating immersive simulation of complex movements in industrial environments
Supervisors: Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Daniel MESTRE (Aix-Marseille Université, CRVM), Laurent JOBLOT, Michaël BROCHIER (Cegelec CEM)
Funding: Cegelec CEM
Defended on December 5th, 2024

Azadeh HADADI

Development of trustworthy intelligent avatars in virtual immersion
Supervisors: Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Jivka OVTCHAROVA (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Christophe GUILLET
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Defended on November 25th, 2024

Ali OLAYAN

Human-machine interaction studies of occupants in level 3 autonomous vehicles using virtual and dynamic environments
Supervisors: Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Baptiste SANDOZ (IBHGC)
Funding: French Ministry of Higher Education
Defended on November 6th, 2024

Déborah LEBERT

Augmented reality for airplane seat renovation
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Florence DANGLADE, Jean-Philippe FARRUGIA
Funding: SAFRAN
Defended on July 1st, 2024

Mahdiyeh Sadat MOOSAVI

Individualized model of interaction by analyzing the sense of presence for the optimization of virtual immersion
Supervisors : Christophe GUILLET, Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Region
Defended on September 21st, 2023

Grégoire MOMPEU

Intelligent maintenance manual in augmented reality: application to the maintenance to structural pieces
Supervisors : Florence DANGLADE, Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: SAFRAN
Defended on July 12th, 2023

Waad ALMASRI

3D generative adversarial networks for design, optimization and validation in additive manufacturing
Supervisors : Florence DANGLADE, Fakhreddine ABABSA
Funding: Cifre Expleo Services
Defended on January 19th, 2023

Théo COMBE

User experience in virtual immersion: a study of scale factors for a similar perception in a CAVE and an HMD
Supervisors : Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Frédéric MERIENNE, Jivka OVTCHAROVA (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Defended on December 13th, 2022

José Luis DORADO COLLAZOS

A framework to characterize and influence spatial perception in heterogeneous virtual reality displays
Supervisors : Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, José Tiberio HERNANDEZ (Universidad Los Andes, Columbia), Pablo FIGUEROA (Universidad Los Andes, Columbia)
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers / Universidad Los Andes (Columbia)
Defended on February 3rd, 2022

Yuyang WANG

Intelligent navigation in virtual reality
Supervisors : Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET
Funding: Chinese government
Defended on October 14th, 2021

Quentin LOIZEAU

Deployment methodology of augmented reality systems in industrial field - application to maintenance
Supervisors : Frédéric MERIENNE, Florence DANGLADE, Fakhreddine ABABSA, Francis ROSSIGNOL (SAFRAN Landing Systems)
Funding: SAFRAN
Defended on July 8th, 2021

Guillaume LUCAS

Simulator sickness reduction during long term simulation for the validation of autonomous vehicles
Supervisors: Andras KEMENY, Damien PAILLOT, Florent COLOMBET (Renault)
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on January 26th, 2021

Cédric DI LORETO

Contribution of immersive simulations for the study of the dynamic behavior of the occupants of a vehicle
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Baptiste SANDOZ (Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak)
Funding: Fondation Arts et Métiers
Defended on December 11th, 2020

Pierre RAIMBAUD

Virtual reality for building industry needs: guiding the design of user interactions through a task-centred methodology
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Ruding LOU, Florence DANGLADE, José Tiberio HERNANDEZ (Universidad Los Andes, Columbia), Pablo FIGUEROA (Universidad Los Andes, Columbia)
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers / Universidad Los Andes (Columbia)
Defended on November 17th, 2020

Carolina RENGIFO CADAVID

Platform control for the validation of autonomous vehicles on a high performance dynamic simulator
Supervisors: Andras KEMENY, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Damien PAILLOT, Hakim MOHELLEBI (Renault)
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on June 30th, 2020

Norhasliza MOHAMAD YUZOFF

Visual Cognitive Driving Distraction Detection using EEG
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Christophe GUILLET, Naufal SAAD (UTP, Malaysia)
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers ParisTech / UTP
Defended on December 6th, 2019

Barnabé FALIU

An interactive and immersive virtual environment to facilitate citizens' collective creativity in urban design projects
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Ruding LOU, Alena SIARHEYEVA (ISEN Toulon)
Funding: H2020 U_CODE
Defended on July 2nd, 2019

Benoit PERROUD

Realistic visual immersion: proposition of an evaluation model
Supervisors: Andras KEMENY, Stéphane REGNIER (Renault), Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on December 3rd, 2018

Chakib BENSEKKA

Human motion analysis in virtual environment
Supervisors: Christophe GUILLET, Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: French government
Defended on October 15th, 2018

Antoine LASSAGNE

Virtual touch in virtual environment
Supervisors: Andras KEMENY, Javier POSSELT (Renault), Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on May 28th, 2018

Bo LI

Multi-user interface and its use for collaborative work with multiple representations of Digital Mock-Up
Supervisors: Ruding LOU, Frédéric MERIENNE, Frédéric SEGONDS (LCPI, Arts et Métiers)
Funding: Chinese government
Defended on December 19th, 2017

Jérémy PLOUZEAU

Study of added value of vibration for navigation in immersive virtual environment
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Damien PAILLOT
Funding: Burgundy council
Defended on December 2nd, 2016

Lynda HALIT

Augmented reality interfaces for driving: a simulation approach
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on November 25th, 2016

Paul GEORGE

Mobile interactions in immersive virtual environment for project review applications
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET, Indira THOUVENIN (UTC)
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on June 17th, 2016

Juan Sebastián CASALLAS SUAREZ

Prediction of user action in moving-target selection tasks
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, James OLIVER (Iowa State University, USA), Samir GARBAYA
Funding: Co-tutelle Arts et Métiers ParisTech / Iowa State University
Defended on June 26th, 2015

Mohammad Ali MIRZAEI

Influence of interaction techniques on VIMS in virtual environments: estimation and prediction
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Rémy CHARDONNET
Funding: FUI Callisto
Defended on December 16th, 2014

Juan Camilo IBARRA LOPEZ

TaCAT: Task Centered Analysis Tools for Urban Planning
Supervisors: José Tiberio HERNANDEZ (Universidad Los Andes, Columbia), Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: VME, Universidad Los Andes
Defended on December 15th, 2014

Jérémie LANDRIEU

Benefit of virtual and augmented realities in planning and monitoring renovation works
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Christian PERE, Samir GARBAYA
Funding: Feder
Defended on December 18th, 2013

Baris AYKENT

Study of control command of dynamic platform for driving simulation and influence on simulator sickness
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Damien PAILLOT, Andras KEMENY
Funding:
Defended on December 16th, 2013

Emmanuel DURAND

Improvements to the visual consistency of mixed reality applied to cultural heritage
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Christian PERE, Patrick CALLET (Ecole Centrale Paris), Thomas MULLER (on-situ)
Funding: Industry (on-situ / ANRT)
Defended on November 19th, 2013

Arnaud MAS

Use of driving simulators for advanced driver assistance systems evaluation in emergency situations
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on June 28th, 2012

Slim AZZI

Visuo-haptic coupling in a simulated driving environment
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on January 31st, 2012

Hiep VU HOANG

Large-scale and high-quality dense multi-view stereo
Supervisors: Renaud KERIVEN (Ecole Polytechnique), Christian PERE
Funding: Ecole des Ponts ParisTech / Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Defended on December 5th, 2011

Adrien BARTHOU

Integration of modalities of perception, action and cognition while using a driving assistance system
Supervisors: Alain BERTHOZ (Collège de France), Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY
Funding: Industry (Renault / ANRT)
Defended on March 2011

Erik Vladimir ORTEGA GONZALEZ

Study of 3D sound for audio-visual interaction in enriched virtual environment
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Samir GARBAYA
Funding: Grand Chalon
Defended on February 21st, 2011

Van Hanh NGUYEN

Contribution of virtual reality to functional reeducation
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Jean-Luc MARTINEZ
Funding: ANR Simaction
Defended on December 17th, 2010

Florent COLOMBET

Visual scale factor for speed perception rendering in car driving simulation
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Andras KEMENY, Damien PAILLOT
Funding: Grand Chalon
Defended on December 13th, 2010

Hamid HRIMECH

Evaluation of interaction metaphors for collaborative work distant immersive sites
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, Leila ALEM (ICT-center, CSIRO Australia)
Funding: Ministry
Defended on October 21st, 2009

Hakim ATMANI

Virtual system for an aided shoulder surgery
Supervisors: Frédéric MERIENNE, David FOFI (University of Burgundy)
Funding: Region (SGM company / Burgundy council)
Defended on January 16th, 2008

Marc CHEVALDONNE

Representation and interaction for virtual immersion
Supervisors: Marc NEVEU (University of Burgundy), Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Industry (EADS-CCR group / ANRT)
Defended on December 6th, 2005

Damien PAILLOT

Data management for digital mock-up visualization in immersive virtual environment. Application to car design
Supervisors: Marc NEVEU (University of Burgundy), Frédéric MERIENNE
Funding: Region (PSA group / Burgundy council)
Defended on November 19th, 2004