Cyber-Human Lab https://cyberhuman.io Augmenting human work and performance in industry Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:14:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://cyberhuman.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-CHL_Icon_15122020-32x32.png Cyber-Human Lab https://cyberhuman.io 32 32 Success of our former MPhil ISMM students https://cyberhuman.io/success-of-our-former-mphil-ismm-students/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:20:13 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1992 Over the last year, four students from the MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture, and Management at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), namely, Adya Hegde, Za Baylis, Andrew Pasco, and Neeraj Jain, carried out their theses as part of the Cyber-Human Lab (CHL) under the direct supervision of Dr Sławomir Tadeja and Dr Thomas Bohné. All four theses were carried out as part of a collaboration between the Cyber-Human Lab (CHL) in Cambridge and the MIT Learning Engineering Practice (LEAP) Group. 

We are proud to say that all the results of these student-led projects have been translated into scientific manuscripts currently undergoing peer review. One of the thesis projects, by Adya Hegde, has already been published:

A. Hegde et al., “Towards Expert Knowledge Capture with Virtual Reality: Exploring Immersive Elicitation of CAD Models for 3D Printing,” 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 2025, pp. 456-465, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct68609.2025.00092.

Furthermore, another Zachary Baylis obtained a distinction and a final grade of 83% for his thesis, ranking first overall in his MPhil ISMM cohort! Congratulations, Zac! Whilst Andrew Pasco is continuing his education at Stanford, working towards his M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) ’27.

]]> Paper presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) https://cyberhuman.io/paper-presented-at-the-2025-ieee-international-conference-on-systems-man-and-cybernetics-smc/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:52:13 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1981 Christine Saeedi-Givi represented the Cyber-Human Lab at this year’s 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), held in Vienna, Austria. Christine presented our paper on how AR technology can be utilised to support upper limbs exoskeleton fitting. She has previously interned with CHL and later worked on collecting data for her BA thesis. She is now a doctoral student with our lab – congratulations!

Max Middendorf, Christine Saeedi-Givi, Lea Marleen Daling, Anas Abdelrazeq, Robert H. Schmitt, Thomas Bohne, Slawomir Konrad Tadeja, Visual Cues in Exergame-Like Feedback for Fitting Passive Upper Limbs Exoskeleton: Systematic Review, Usability and Users’ Preferences, IEEE SMC 2025 (in press)

]]> Dr Thomas Bohné and Colleagues received Highly Commended Paper Award at the Frontiers 2025 conference! https://cyberhuman.io/dr-thomas-bohne-and-colleagues-received-highly-commended-paper-award-at-the-frontiers-2025-conference/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:30:23 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1974 The team of co-authors that included Jan H. Blümel, Mohamed Zaki, and head of CHL, Dr Thomas Bohné received the Highly Commended Paper Award at the Frontiers 2025 Conference for the paper “Personal Touch in Digital Customer Service: A Conceptual Framework of Relational Personalization for Conversational AI,” published in the Journal of Service Theory and Practice.

]]> Jan Helmich becomes Cambridge University’s Sports Person of the Year 2025 https://cyberhuman.io/jan-helmich-becomes-cambridge-universitys-sports-person-of-the-year-2025/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:50:55 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1963 CHL member and PhD in Engineering student Jan Helmich, working on his thesis project under the supervision Dr Thomas Bohné has been named Cambridge University’s Sports Person of the Year. Huge congratulations to Jan!

Please find more details on Trinity Hall’s website:

Jan Helmich wins Cambridge University’s Sports Person of the Year

]]> A new journal paper alert: vison-based pose estimation methods for industrial AR https://cyberhuman.io/a-new-journal-paper-alert-vison-based-pose-estimation-methods-for-industrial-ar/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:02:53 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1933 Together with collaborators from Poznan University of  Technology and University of St Andrews, we published [open access] in Computers in Industry journal a new paper:

Kamil Żywanowski, Mikołaj Łysakowski, Michał R. Nowicki, Jason T. Jacques, Sławomir K. Tadeja, Thomas Bohné, Piotr Skrzypczyński, Vision-based hand pose estimation methods for Augmented Reality in industry: Crowdsourced evaluation on HoloLens 2, Computers in Industry, Volume 171, 2025, 104328, ISSN 0166-3615, DOI:10.1016/j.compind.2025.104328

]]> CHL members placing high at the Oxbridge AI Challenge https://cyberhuman.io/chl-member-placing-high-at-the-oxbridge-ai-challenge/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:25:20 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1900 On Friday, 6th November 2024, two members of the CHL, i.e.,  Tim J. Schoonbeek and Michael-J. Vogeser, reached the finals of the Oxbridge AI Challenge, placing in the top 10 out of over 220 participating teams. Their innovative project, omnAI, exemplifies the lab’s mission to bridge human and machine intelligence. OmnAI acts as a “second pair of eyes” for industrial workers, utilizing real-time sensor data to detect potential errors, provide safety alerts, and reduce costly downtimes. By redefining error prevention in manufacturing, omnAI contributes towards safer, more efficient industrial processes. Congratulations on the team effort!
]]> ISMAR 2024 Best Journal Paper Honorable Mention! https://cyberhuman.io/best-paper-nomination-at-ieee-ismar-2024/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:59:24 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1858 The paper, co-authored by multiple CHL members, including Vicky Zhang (former IfM ISMM student), Alexander Albers (former postgraduate visiting student), who both wrote their theses at CHL and Christine Saeedi-Givi (who is working with us towards her BA) and Dr Thomas Bohné (the lab’s founder and head) and Dr Slawomir Tadeja, has been nominated for the Best Paper Award and received Best Journal Paper Honorable Mention at the prestigious IEEE ISMAR 2024!

If you are at ISMAR and want to chat about our work, Dr. Slawomir Tadeja, who served as the senior author of this paper, will be attending multiple workshops on Monday and Friday during ISMAR in Seattle, WA, USA.

Furthermore, co-author Prof Per Ola Kristensson will present our work described in the nominated paper during PS40 – Learning and Training 1 (Industrial Setting):

Should I Evaluate my Augmented Reality System in an Industrial Environment? Investigating the Effects of Classroom and Shop Floor Settings on Guided Manual Assembly
Paper ID: J1214
Authors: Vicky Zhang, Alexander Albers, Christine Saeedi-Givi, Per Ola Kristensson, Thomas Bohné, Slawomir Konrad Tadeja

]]> Article draft featured at UniteAI https://cyberhuman.io/article-draft-featured-at-uniteai/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:41:28 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1846 In our most recent draft, we introduced the MiraGe model, which represents 2D images using flat Gaussian components, achieving state-of-the-art reconstruction quality.

MiraGe enables the manipulation of 2D images within 3D space, creating the illusion of 3D effects. We integrate MiraGe with a physics engine, enabling physics-based modifications and interactions for both 2D and 3D environments.

Our work has been featured at UniteAI: Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting by Martin Andersson.

The paper was co-authored by Joanna Waczynska (first author!) and Piotr Borycki, who are both currently visiting postgraduate students with the Cyber-Human Lab (CHL). This research represents another effect of the ongoing collaboration between Prof Przemyslaw Spurek from Jagiellonian Univeristy in Krakow and Dr Slawomir Tadeja and Dr Thomas Bohné w CHL.

]]> A paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024 https://cyberhuman.io/a-paper-accepted-at-neurips-2024/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:00:58 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1840 A paper co-authored by Dr Sławomir Tadeja from the CHL has been accepted for inclusion at the prestigious 2024 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024):

J. Waczyńska, P. Borycki, J. Kaleta,  S. Tadeja, P. Spurek, D-MiSo:  Editing Dynamic 3D Scenes using Multi-Gaussians Soup,  The 2024 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), (accepted)

]]> AR for exoskeleton fitting presented at the ongoing IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2024 https://cyberhuman.io/ar-for-exoskeleton-fitting-presented-at-the-ongoing-ieee-ras-embs-biorob-2024/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:08:15 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1815 Christine Saeedi-Givi is presenting her first-author paper at the 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024):

Exergame-Like Feedback for Passive Upper Limbs Exoskeleton Fitting: A Feasibility Study with Augmented Reality
Author(s): Christine Saeedi-Givi, Lennard Schwaab, Thomas Bohné, Slawomir Konrad Tadeja

Christine will return to CHL this upcoming term to conduct research for her bachelor’s thesis. We look forward to her return!

]]> A paper and a poster accepted at the inaugural 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV) https://cyberhuman.io/a-paper-accepted-at-2024-ieee-international-symposium-on-emerging-metaverse-isemv/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:28:44 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1807 We are pleased to announce that a paper co-authored by CHL members Dr S.K. Tadeja and Dr T. Bohné was accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV) collocated with the IEEE ISMAR 2024 conference:

S.K. Tadeja, A. Filipowski, M. Frankowski, M. Igras-Cybulska, T. Bohné, P.O. Kristensson, Utilising FAST Design Methodology for Swift XR Prototyping: An Example of Interior Design System. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV) (accepted)

M. Kurpios, S.K. Tadeja,  T. Bohné, M. Igras-Cybulska, Hokusai’s Woodcut-Inspired Immersive Art: Studying Immersion Levels and Emotional Impact Across Image, Film and Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the poster track at 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV), Seattle, USA, 2024 (accepted)

]]> Three workshop papers accepted at IEEE ISMAR-Adjunct 2024! https://cyberhuman.io/three-workshop-papers-accepted-at-ieee-ismar-adjunct-2024/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:06:11 +0000 https://cyberhuman.io/?p=1804 Three workshop papers co-authored by Dr Thomas Bohne and Dr Slawomir Tadeja, as well as former visiting student Alex Albers (currently PhD student at ETH), have been accepted for publication at IEEE ISMAR-Adjunct. Please find more details below.

The MASK! Mobile Analytics from Situated Knowledge,​ Friday, October 25, 2024

K. Moskała, M. Frankowski, M. Igras-Cybulska, A. Witoszek-Kubicka, T. Bohné, S.K. Tadeja, A Novel Approach to Enhance VR User Awareness of Nearby Non-Virtual Hazards through Adaptive Visual Alerts, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Seattle, USA, 2024 (accepted)

XR- SPro, The 3rd International Workshop on XR Solutions for Smart Production,  Monday, October 21, 2024,

A. Albers, M. Igras-Cybulska, S.K. Tadeja, T. Bohné, Assessing AR Visualizations during Non-Complex Assembly: Reporting Preliminary Results from a Crowdsourcing Rework Study, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Seattle, USA, 2024 (accepted)

A. Banaszczyk, M. Łysakowski, M.R. Nowicki, P. Skrzypczyński, S.K. Tadeja, How Accurate is the Positioning in VR? Using Motion Capture and Robotics to Compare Positioning Capabilities of Popular VR Headsets, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Seattle, USA, 2024 (accepted)

Dr Slawomir Tadeja will present these workshop papers and our IEEE TVCG/ISMAR paper on the importance of AR deployment setting at the IEEE ISMAR Conference. Please come along and chat with him.

V. Zhang, A. Albers, C. Saeedi-Givi, P.O. Kristensson, T. Bohné, S.K. Tadeja. Should I Evaluate my Augmented Reality System in an Industrial Environment? Investigating the Effects of Classroom and Shop Floor Settings on Guided Manual Assembly. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG). Special issue on the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2024) (accepted)

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