Radu-Daniel Vatavu

I am a Professor of Computer Science (HDR) at the "Ștefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, where I conduct research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Augmented/Mixed/Extended Reality (AR/MR/XR), Ambient Intelligence (AmI), and Accessible Computing. I direct the Machine Intelligence and Information Visualization Lab (MintViz), an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on advancing knowledge in natural, meaningful, accessible interactions among humans, computers, and environments.

I focus primarily on natural interaction with computing systems, from mobile and wearable devices to large displays and extended reality environments. I am also interested in accessible computing, and my work often addresses interaction design for users with diverse visual or motor abilities; see the Research Projects section.

My work has received paper awards at CHI (2023, 2016, 2015), EICS (2019), ICMI (2024, 2023, 2022, 2012), IEEE Pervasive (2022), IMX (2023, 2021, 2020), ISAmI (2021), MobileHCI (2018), TVX (2015), and W4A (2025, 2022). For my work on Smart Pockets, I received the "Mihai Draganescu" Award of the Romanian Academy in 2019. In 2022, the $P gesture recognizer received the Ten-Year Technical Impact Award from ICMI. I received two consecutive 1st Place Blue Sky Awards at ICMI 2023 and ICMI 2024 for vision papers on non-natural interaction and multimodal interaction with AI-embodied modalities, respectively.

My full Curriculum Vitae is available here

I regularly release, in collaboration, software tools, source code, and datasets that are freely available for research purposes, such as the $P, $P+, and $Q gesture recognizers, the Agreement Analysis Toolkit (AGATe) for gesture elicitation studies, the Gesture Heatmaps Toolkit (GHoST), and the KeyTime and GATO web apps for predicting gesture production times; see the Downloads section for a complete list of resources.

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