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Prof. Dr. Beat Signer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Computer Science
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
(Belgium)
+32 2 629 1239, bsigner@vub.be
Office: PL9.3.60 (Pleinlaan 9)
VUB
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Supervised Students

  • PhD Students

  • Researchers

  • Technology-enhanced Learning, Study Lenses, Evan Cole, April 2022 – now
  • Principles for Dynamic Data Physicalisation, Arun Sojan, June 2021 – now
  • Postdoc Students

  • May AI Help You? Human-AI Interaction in End-User User Interface Development, Dr. Audrey Sanctorum, FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, October 2020 – now
  • MindXpres and Next Generation Presentation Solutions, Dr. Reinout Roels, June 2019 – December 2021
  • Cross-Document Link Services, Dr. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh, November 2016 – March 2022
  • Cross-Media Personal Information Management, Dr. Sandra Trullemans, March 2018 – September 2019
  • Second Generation Mobile Cross-Media Applications: Scalability, Heterogeneity and Legacy (MobiCraNT), Dr. Bruno Dumas, February 2011 – January 2014
  • Designing an Interface for Concept-Knowledge Graph Exploration, Maurice Huyghe, 2025
  • Enhancing Program Test Output to Facilitate Debugging by Novice Programmers, Imane Arbioue, 2025
  • A Web Information Provenance Management Tool, Thomas Van Malderen, 2025
  • Using Augmented Reality for Enhanced Learning in Chemistry Education, Zoë Bellers, 2024
  • Shape Your World with Scheme: A Gamified Approach to Teaching Programming Fundamentals in Minecraft, Silken Heynderickx, 2024
  • LiDAR Indoor Map Matching for Autonomous Robots, Jordan Shittu, 2024
  • IoT Data Visualisation: A Creative Approach, Jonathin Witters, 2024
  • The Digital Chronicle: A Model to Synthesise History, Rob Leemans, 2024
  • End-User Authoring for Location-based Implicit Human-Computer Interaction, Stoffel Oostvogels, 2023
  • Location Tracking on a Physical Game Board, Nathan Hoebeke, 2023
  • Distributable Adaptive User Interfaces, Kevin Sam, 2022
  • Creating the Future: Using Existing Frameworks and Tools to Create a Hypermedia-enabled File System, Aaron Bogaert, 2022
  • Real-Time Localization and Visualization of a Sound Source, Taha El Hihi, 2022
  • Visualising Climate Change Data Using Virtual Reality, Nathan Pesch, 2022
  • Wi-Fi Signal Visualisation and Crowdsourcing, Ahmed Barhdadi, 2021
  • Helping End Users Become Better UI Designers, Mathieu Louis, 2021
  • A Framework for Mixed Reality, Arthur Chomé, 2019
  • Immersive Mixed Reality Experience for an Educational Context, Thomas Lieven Vaeyens, 2019
  • MRPaint: A Mixed Reality Competitive Game, Maxime Antoine, 2019
  • Museum of the Future: Towards a Mixed Reality Information Explorer, Brent Willems, 2018
  • Designing Customisable User Interface Distribution, Lander Demesmaeker, 2018
  • Context Rule Conflict Detection between Multiple Users and Environments, Mateusz Blommaert, 2017
  • Context-aware Media Adaptation for Information Displays, Linda de Corte, 2017
  • Towards a General Co-Creation and Communication Platform, Pieter Steyaert, 2017
  • Improving Our Love/Hate Relationship with Email, Kwinten Pardon, 2016
  • Advanced Linking and Annotations for Office Documents, Tom Stricks, 2015
  • Tracking my Digital Documents, Arno De Witte, 2015
  • A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Identifying and Tracking Paper Documents on Desks, Ayrton Vercruysse, 2014
  • Exploring Graph-based Visualisations for the MindXpres Presentation Tool, Kevin Van Gyseghem, 2013
  • A Declarative Scale-, Rotation- and Position-invariant 3D Gesture Algorithm, Ruben Tytgat, 2013
  • Scratching the Surface, Audrey Sanctorum, 2013
  • Expressive Control of Augmented Reality During Live Music Performances, Toon Duwee, 2012
  • Extracting Context Information from Sensors, Toon Teugels, 2012
  • Exploring Information Through Advanced Visualisation Techniques, Bram Moerman, 2012
  • iGesture: Implementation and Evaluation of Advanced Gesture Detection Algorithms, Rik Vanmechelen, 2011
  • Paper-Digital Maps, Brecht Van Laethem, 2011
  • Pen and Paper-based Object Database Interface, Jeroen Heymans, 2011
  • iGesture Extension for 3D Input Devices, Arthur Vogels, November 2008
  • Remote Sketching on Paper, Hermann Hofstetter, August 2007
  • iFlash: A Flash Plug-in for iServer, Gianni Frey, April 2006
  • Active Component Authoring Tool, Samuel Willimann, October 2005
  • Interactive Paper Laboratory Notebooks, Ueli Kurmann, April 2005
  • Eclipse Plug-in for Jawin, Stefan Naegeli, April 2005
  • Paper-Based Cross-Media Authoring, Thomas Bruderer, April 2005
  • Advanced XHTML Plug-in for iServer, Stefan Malär, April 2005
  • Navigation Facilities for Paper-Based Tourist Information System for the Edinburgh Festivals, Sandra Brockmann, April 2005
  • Link Browser for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), David Mysicka, October 2004
  • Cross-Media Authoring Tool, Nina Laschet, October 2004
  • Bayesian Network for Prefetching Caches, Alexandre de Spindler, August 2004
  • Authoring Tool for Digitally Augmented Paper, Andreas Diener, May 2004
  • Active Components for iServer - In Consideration of Paper-Based Authoring, Philipp Bolliger, April 2004
  • QuickTime Movie Plug-in for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), Fabio Lanfranchi, August 2003
  • Java HID-USB API for Windows, Michael Stahl, October 2002
  • Voice-Based User Interface for the eXtensible Information Management Architecture (XIMA), Daniel Heiniger and Peter Geissbuehler, April 2001
  • E-Mail Application based on OMS Java, Claudia Saupper, April 2001
  • XML Export for OMS, Markus Haller, April 2001
  • JGraph - A Swing Component for Visualizing Graphs, Gaudenz Alder, December 2000
  • A Slim and Open Data Model for Public Transport Network using OMS, Raphael Huber, November 2000
  • Scientific Visitors

  • Prof. Alexander Brodsky, visiting professor (sabbatical), August 2024 – July 2025
  • Towards User-defined Implicit Human-Computer Interaction for Smart Environments, Migdeily Cantera, VLIR scholarship, October – December 2021
  • Internships

  • A Knowledge Base for Data Physicalisation, Charly Schmidt, June – August 2024
  • A Review of Kinect-based User Interfaces, Hercule Kalonji Kalala, VLIR scholarship, October – November 2012
  • Student Assistants

  • iPaper Tools, Claudio Hatz, December 2007
  • iGesture Recognition Framework, Michele Croci, October 2007
  • Interactive Tabletop, Matthias Geel, September 2007
  • iGesture Recognition Framework, Ueli Kurmann, January 2007
  • iFlash Plug-in for iServer, Gianni Frey, November 2006