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Bonjour, I am Damien 👋. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the HCI Lab of the University of Waterloo where I was advised by Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank, Géry Casiez and Sylvain Malacria. My long term goal is to improve how we communicate science, either in the way we express it, or by developing novel tools for those who produce and consume scientific information. My current research interests include (but are not limited to):


Latest News
Aug 2023
Successfully defended my PhD thesis 🎉
Jul 2023
Presenting a seminar on Generating Novel Document Representations at UWaterloo
Jul 2023
Presenting a seminar on Supporting Active Reading at UWaterloo
Apr 2023
Travelling to Hamburg to present ChartDetective and Charagraph at CHI'23
Mar 2023
ChartDetective received a best paper award! 🏆
Feb 2023
Presenting a seminar on ChartDetective at UWaterloo
May 2022
Travelling to New Orleans to present Supercharging Trial-and-Error at CHI'22
Oct 2021

International Publications

UIST '23
Statslator: Interactive Translation of NHST and Estimation Statistics Reporting Styles in Scientific Documents
Damien Masson, Sylvain Malacria, Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel
The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. AR: 25.1% (121/483)

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CHI '23
Charagraph: Interactive Generation of Charts for Realtime Annotation of Data-Rich Paragraphs
Damien Masson, Sylvain Malacria, Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. AR: 27.6% (880/3182)

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CHI '23
ChartDetective: Easy and Accurate Interactive Data Extraction from Complex Vector Charts
Damien Masson, Sylvain Malacria, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank, Géry Casiez
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. AR: 27.6% (880/3182)

PDF Website Video Presentation DOI Best Paper Award (top 1%)

CHI '22
Supercharging Trial-and-Error for Learning Complex Software Applications
Damien Masson, Jo Vermeulen, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. AR: 24.6% (637/2579)

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UIST '21
Relevance and Applicability of Hardware-Independent Pointing Transfer Functions
Raiza Hanada, Damien Masson, Géry Casiez, Mathieu Nancel, Sylvain Malacria
The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. AR: 26% (95/367)

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CHI '20
Chameleon: Bringing Interactivity to Static Digital Documents
Damien Masson, Sylvain Malacria, Edward Lank, Géry Casiez
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. AR: 24% (760/3126)

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IJHCS '19
Design and evaluation of braced touch for touchscreen input stabilisation
Andy Cockburn, Damien Masson, Carl Gutwin, Philippe Palanque, Alix Goguey, Marcus Yung, Christine Gris, Catherine Trask
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

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UIST '17
WhichFingers: Identifying Fingers on Touch Surfaces and Keyboards Using Vibration Sensors
Damien Masson, Alix Goguey, Sylvain Malacria, Géry Casiez
Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. AR: 23% (73/324)

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National Publications

IHM '19
Measuring the Effect of Public vs Private Context on the Kinematics of Smartphone Motion Gestures
Edward Lank, Paul Meyer, Damien Masson, Hanae Rateau
Proceedings of the 31st Conference on l’Interaction Homme-Machine. AR: 48% (14/29)

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IHM '19
Holding Patterns: Detecting Handedness with a Moving Smartphone at Pickup
Jeff Avery, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank, Damien Masson, Hanae Rateau
Proceedings of the 31st Conference on l’Interaction Homme-Machine. AR: 48% (14/29)

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Demos

CHI EA '20
Bringing Interactivity to Research Papers and Presentations with Chameleon
Damien Masson, Sylvain Malacria, Edward Lank, Géry Casiez
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

PDF Website DOI People's Choice Best Demo Award


PhD Thesis

University of Waterloo '23
Transforming the Reading Experience of Scientific Documents with Polymorphism
Damien Masson
University of Waterloo.

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