Associate Professor (Professor Agregat) at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona.
Member of the research group ViRVIG.
Coordinator of the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality speciality of the MIRI master degree at the Facultat de Informàtica (UPC).
President of the Eurographics Spanish Chapter.

I received my PhD in 2006 (as a Fulbright scholar) at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) under the supervision of Dr. Norman I. Badler . Afterwards I was a post-doctorate researcher at the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies with Dr. Ali Malkawi and the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation with Dr. Norman I. Badler . I completed my undergrad studies at the Universitat de Valencia and received a MSc in Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments from the University College London.

NEWS
In January 2023 we started a new EU project XR4ED (xr4ed.eu/) to bring our virtual characters into an XR platform for education.



BOOKS:

Simulating Heterogeneous Crowds with Interactive Behaviors.
Editors: Nuria Pelechano, Jan Allbeck, Mubbasir Kapadia and Norman I. Badler.
CRC Press. Taylor and Franics Group. 2016
(Buy from CRC, Amazon)		 Virtual Crowds: Steps Toward Behavioral Realism.
Mubbasir Kapadia, Nuria Pelechano, Jan Allbeck and Norman I. Badler.
Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers. November 2015.
(Buy from M&C, Amazon)		 Virtual Crowds: Methods, Simulation, and Control.
Nuria Pelechano, Jan Allbeck and Norman I. Badler.
Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers. 2008.
(Buy from M&C, Amazon)

Research Interests

My main research interests are in the field of computer graphics, VR, and simulation and animation of virtual humans and crowds. I am also interested in animation of self-avatars in immersive virtual reality applications to enhance embodiment, and facilitate the interaction with the environmetn and other users.


Current PhD Students:

Jose Luis Ponton
Reiya Itatani
Jon Sanchez
Kexiang Huang (visiting student from Beijing Institute of Technology)

Publications

2025
DragPoser: Motion Reconstruction from Variable Sparse Tracking Signals via Latent Space Optimization.
J.L Ponton, E. Pujol, A. Aristidou, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano.
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics). 2025.
2024
Social Crowd Simulation: Improving Realism with Social Rules and Gaze Behavior.
R. Itatani, N. Pelechano
Motion Interaction and Games MIG'2024. Washington (USA), November 2024
Choreographing multi-degree of freedom behaviors in large-scale crowd simulations.
K. Huang, G. Ding, D. Yan, R. Tang, T. Huang, N. Pelechano
Computers & Graphics. Vol. 124, Nov. 2024.
XR4ED: An Extended Reality Platform for Education.
F. Liarokapis, V. Milata, J. L. Ponton, N. Pelechano and H. Zacharatos
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications . Vol. 44, n.4, pp. 79-88 July-Aug. 2024.
TRAIL: Simulating the impact of human locomotion on natural landscapes.
E. Alvarado, O. Argudo, D. Rohmer, M-P. Cani, N. Pelechano
The Visual Computer. pp. 1-13. June 2024.(CGI 2024)
Stretch your reach: Studying Self-Avatar and Controller Misalignment in Virtual Reality Interaction
J.L. Ponton, R. Keshavarz, A. Beacco, N. Pelechano
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI). Honolulu, USA, May 2024.
Exploring the Role of Expected Collision Feedback in Crowded Virtual Environments
H. Yun, J.L. Ponton, A. Beacco, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano
IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR). Orlando, USA, March 2024.
Simulating real-life scenarios to better understand the spread of diseases under different contexts
R. Blanco, G. Patow, N. Pelechano
Scientific Reports- Vol 14 Article No.: 2694. pp 1–17. 2024. (ed. Springer Nature)
2023
SparsePoser: Real-Time Full-Body Motion Reconstruction from Sparse Data
J.L. Ponton, H. Yun, A. Aristidou, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano
Transactions on Graphics. Vol 43 Issue 1 Article No.: 5. pp 1–14. 2023. (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023)
GREIL-Crowds: Crowd Simulation With Deep Reinforcement Learning and Examples
P. Charalambous, J. Pettre, V. Vassiliades, Y. Chrysanthou, N. Pelechano
Transactions on Graphics. Vol 42. Issue 4. Article No.: 137. pp 1–15 2023. (SIGGRAPH 2023)
Fitted Avatars: Automatic skeleton adjustment for self-avatars in Virtual Reality
J.L. Ponton, V. Ceballos, L. Acosta, A. Ríos, E. Monclús, N. Pelechano
Virtual Reality . Springer. 2023.
Animation Fidelity in Self-Avatars: Impact on User Performance and Sense of Agency
H. Yun, J. Ponton, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano
IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR). Shanghai, China, April 2023, pp. 286-296, doi: 10.1109/VR55154.2023.00044
2022
Combining Motion Matching and Orientation Prediction to Animate Avatars for Consumer-Grade VR Devices
J. Ponton, H. Yun, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'2022). September 2022.
Computer Graphics Forum. vol 41(8). pp 107-118
AvatarGo: Plug and Play self-avatars for VR
J. Ponton, E. Monclus, N. Pelechano
Eurographics short papers. April 2022.
Authoring Virtual Crowds: A Survey
M. Lemonari, R. Blanco, P. Charalambous, N. Pelechano, M. Avraamides, J. Pettre, Y. Chrysanthou
Eurographics STAR . April 2022.
Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 41 (2022), Number 2. pp.677-701
Towards a human-like approach to path finding
V. Rahmani, N. Pelechano
Computers & Graphics. 2022. vol. 102. pp 164-174
Presentation at the EG Spanish Chapter Conference (CEIG) in Spanish
2021
Procedural Crowd Generation for Semantically Augmented Virtual Cities
O. Rogla, G. Patow, N. Pelechano
Computers & Graphics. vol 99, pp 83-99. October 2021.
The impact of animations in the perception of a simulated crowd
E Molina, A. Ríos, N. Pelechano
Computer Graphics International. 2021.
2020
Avatars rendering and its effect on perceived realism in Virtual Reality
A. Rios, N. Pelechano
MARCH: Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans 2020. Workshop in 3rd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR)
The Rocketbox library and the utility of freely available rigged avatars for procedural animation of virtual humans and embodiment
M. Gonzalez Franco, E. Ofek, Y. Pan, A. Antley, A. Steed, B. Spanlang, A. Maselli, D. Banakou, N. Pelechano, S. Orts-Escolano, V. Orvalho, L. Trutoiu, M. Wojcik, M. V. Sanchez-Vives, J. Bailenson, M. Slater, J. Lanier
Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 2020.
The Rocketbox Avatar Library . GitHub download
Comparing navigation meshes: theoretical analysis and practical metrics
W.Van Toll, R.Triesscheijn, M. Kallmann, R. Oliva, N. Pelechano, J. Pettre, R. Geraerts
Computers & Graphics. vol 91, pp. 52-82. 2020.
Follower behavior under stress in immersive VR.
Alex. Rios, N. Pelechano
Virtual Reality. Springer. 2020.
Multi-agent parallel hierarchical path finding in navigation meshes (MA-HNA*).
A. Rahmani, N. Pelechano
Computers & Graphics. vol 86, pp. 1-14. 2020.
2019
An automatic tool to facilitate authoring animation blending in game engines.
L. Delicado, N. Pelechano
Motion Interaction and Games MIG'2019. October 28-30. Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK). 2019.
The future of avatar‐human interaction in VR, AR and mixed reality applications.
N. Pelechano, J. Pettre, Y. Chrysanthou
Eurographics Think Tank 2019. May 6-10. Genova (Italy). 2019.
Smooth transitioning between two navigation metaphors for Virtual Reality applications.
I. Salvetti, A. Rios, N. Pelechano
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'19. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). June 26-28. San Sebastian (Spain). 2019.
2018
Users’ locomotor behavior in Collaborative Virtual Reality.
A. Rios, M. Palomar, N. Pelechano
Motion Interaction and Games (MIG) 2018. November 8-10. Limassol (Cyprus). 2018.
VR-assisted Architectural Design in a Heritage Site: the Sagrada Família Case Study.
C. Andujar, P. Brunet, J. Buxareu, J. Fons, N. Laguarda, J. Pascual, N. Pelechano
EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EG GCH) 2018. November 12-15. Viena (Austria). 2018.
Follower Behavior in a Virtual Environment.
A. Rios, D. Mateu, N. Pelechano
Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments (VHCIE) 2018. March 18. Reutlingen (Germany). 2018.
2017
Improvements to Hierarchical Pathfinding for Navigation Meshes.
V. Rahmani, N. Pelechano
Motion in Games 2017. November 8-10. Barcelona (Spain). 2017.
Procedural Semantic Cities.
O. Rogla, N. Pelechano
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'17. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). June 28-30. Seville (Spain). 2017.
Eurographics 2017 Tutorial: Introduction to crowd simulation.
J. Pettré, N. Pelechano
Eurographics 2017. April 24-28. Lyon (France). 2017.
2016
A Comparative Study of Navigation Meshes
W. van Toll, R.Triesscheijn, M.Kallmann, R.Oliva, N. Pelechano, J.Pettré, R. Geraerts
ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games (MIG'2016). October 10-12. San Francisco (USA). 2016.
Hierarchical Path-Finding for Navigation Meshes (HNA*)
N. Pelechano, C. Fuentes
Computers & Graphics. 2016.
A Survey of Real-Time Crowd Rendering
A. Beacco, N. Pelechano, C. Andujar
Eurographics - State or The Art Reports. May 2016.
Feeling Crowded Yet?: Crowd Simulations for VR
N. Pelechano, J. Allbeck
IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environment. VHCIE. May 2016.
2015
A Survey of Real-Time Crowd Rendering
A. Beacco, N. Pelechano, C. Andujar
Computer Graphics Forum. October 2015. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12774
Footstep Parameterized Motion Blending using Barycentric Coordinates
A. Beacco, N. Pelechano, M. Kapadia, N. Badler
Computers & Graphics. vol. 47. April 2015. pp. 105-112. doi free journal download
Clearance for diversity of agents’ sizes in Navigation Meshes
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano
Computers & Graphics. vol. 47. April 2015. pp. 48-58. doi
2014
Eurographics 2014 Tutorial: Simulating heterogeneous crowds with interactive behaviors.
N. Pelechano, M. Kapadia, J. Allbeck, Y. Chrysantyou, S. Guy, N. Badler
Eurographics 2014. April 7-11. Strasbourg (France). 2014.
CAVAST: The Crowd Animation, Visualization, and Simulation Testbed.
A. Beacco, N. Pelechano
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'14. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). Zaragoza(Spain) July 2-4, 2014.
Coupling pedestrians with a simulated virtual crowd.
J.I. Rivalcoba, O.D. Gyves, I. Rudomin, N. Pelechano
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (GRAPP'2014). January 5-8. Lisbon(Portugal). 2014.
2013
A Generalized Exact Arbitrary Clearance Technique for Navigation Meshes.
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano
ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games (MIG'2013). November 7-9. Dublin (Ireland). 2013.
Multi-Domain Real-time Planning in Dynamic Environments.
M. Kapadia, A. Beacco, F. Garcia, V. Reddy, N. Pelechano, N. Badler
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'2013). July 19-21. Anaheim, California. (USA). 2013.
NEOGEN: Near Optimal Generator of Navigation Meshes for 3D Multi-Layered Environments.
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano
Computer & Graphics. vol. 37, no.5, pp 403-412. Elsevier. August 2013.
Dynamic Footsteps Planning for Multiple Characters.
A. Beacco, N. Pelechano, M. Kapadia.
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'13. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). Madrid (Spain) September 17-20, 2013.
NavMeshes with Clearance for Different Character Sizes.
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano.
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'13. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). Madrid (Spain) September 17-20, 2013.
Introductory Graphics for Very Diverse Audiences.
M. Fairen, N. Pelechano.
Proceeding Eurographics - Education Papers. 2013.
2012
A GPU Accelerated Method for the Automatic Generation of Near-Optimal Navigation Meshes. ( abstract )
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano.
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'12. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). Jaen (Spain) September 12-14, 2012.
Distance Learning in Computer Graphics.
A. Chica, M. Fairen, N. Pelechano.
Proceeding Eurographics - Education Papers. pp 65-72. 2012.
Efficient rendering of animated characters through optimized per-joint impostors.
A. Beacco, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano, B. Spanlang.
Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. vol. 23, no.1, pp 33-47. 2012.
2011
A flexible approach for output-sensitive rendering of animated characters.
A. Beacco, B. Spanlang, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano.
Computer Graphics Forum. vol. 30, no. 8, pp 2328-2340. December 2011.
CloseUp.mkv
Automatic Generation of Suboptimal NavMeshes.
R. Oliva, N. Pelechano.
The Fourth International Conference on Motion in Games 2011 (MIG2011), Edinburgh (UK), November 13-15, 2011.
Avatar Locomotion in Crowd Simulation.
N. Pelechano, B. Spanlang, A. Beacco.
The International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) vol. 10, no. 1, pp 13-19, March 2011.
International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2011). Chengdu, (China) May 26-28, 2011.
videos: CrowdComparison.mkv CrowdAPM.mkv OneAgentComparison.mkv OneAgent.mkv OriginalAnimLib.mkv
How the Ocean Personality Model Affects the Perception of Crowds.

F. Durupinar, N. Pelechano, J. Allbeck, U. Gudukbay, N. Badler.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 22-31, May/June, 2011
2010
Efficient elimination of foot sliding for crowds.
A. Beacco, B. Spanlang, N. Pelechano.
The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'10). Poster and Extended Abstract. Madrid (Spain) 2-4 July 2010.
Output-Sensitive Rendering of Detailed Animated Characters for Crowd Simulation.
A. Beacco, B. Spanlang, C. Andujar, N. Pelechano.
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'10. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). Valencia (Spain) September 7-10, 2010.
2009
A Framework for Rendering, Simulation and Animation of Crowds.
N. Pelechano, B. Spanlang, A. Beacco.
Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. CEIG'09. Sección Española de Eurographics (EGse). San Sebastian (Spain) September 9-11, 2009.
2008
Being a Part of the Crowd: Towards Validating VR Crowds Using Presence.
N. Pelechano, C. Stocker, J. Allbeck, N. Badler.
Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (AAMAS'08) Estoril (Portugal) May 12-16, 2008.
Creating Crowd Variation with the OCEAN Personality Model. (Short paper)
F. Durupinar, J. Allbeck, N. Pelechano and N. Badler.
Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (AAMAS'08) Estoril (Portugal) May 12-16, 2008.
Evacuation Simulation Models: Challenges in Modeling High Rise Building Evacuation With Cellular Automata Approaches.
N. Pelechano, A. Malkawi.
Automation in Construction Journal. vol. 17 no.4, pp.377-385. Elsevier. 2008.
2007
Feeling Crowded? Exploring Presence in Virtual Crowds. (Short paper)
N. Pelechano, C. Stocker, J. Allbeck, N. Badler.
Proceedings of PRESENCE 2007. The 10th annual International Workshop on Presence. October 25-27, Barcelona (Spain). pp 373-376.
Controlling Individual Agents in High-Density Crowd Simulation.
N. Pelechano, J. Allbeck and N. Badler.
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'07) August 3-4, San Diego (USA). 2007.
SCA presentation (pdf) (ppt)
Generating Plausible Individual Agent Movement from Spatio-Temporal Occupancy Data.
B. Sunshine-Hill, J.M. Allbeck, N. Pelechano and N. Badler.
Workshop of Massive Datasets, Nagoya (Japan) 2007.
Comparison of Crowd Simulation for Building Evacuation and an Alternative Approach.
N. Pelechano, A. Malkawi.
The 10th International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference and Exhibition. Beijing (China). Sept 3-6. 2007
2006
Modeling Crowd and Trained Leader Behavior during Building Evacuation.
N. Pelechano, N. Badler.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 80-86, Nov/Dec, 2006.
Interoperable human behavior models for simulations.
McDonald, D., Lazarus, R., Leung, A., Hussain, T., Bharathy, G., Eidelson, R.J. Pelechano, N., Sandhaus, E. Silverman, B.G.
Proceedings of the 2006 Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) Conference. May 15-18, Baltimore, MD (USA) 2006.
2005
Crowd Simulation Incorporating Agent Psychological Models, Roles and Communication.
N. Pelechano, K. O'Brien, B. Silverman, N. Badler.
First International Workshop on Crowd Simulation. (V-CROWDS '05) Lausanne (Switzerland) 24-25 November 2005.
2004
A Grid Representation for Distributed Virtual Environments.
P. Morillo, M. Fernandez, N. Pelechano.
2003 Annual Crossgrid Project Workshop & 1st European Across Grids Conference, February, 13th-14th, 2003.
Grid Computing, Lecture Note in Computer Science , Springer-Verlag Berlin, volume 2970/2004, pp. 182-189. 2004.
(Abstract) (Extended Abstract)




Conferences

"Virtual Crowds: simulation, validation and everything in between." Keynote Speaker
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
Barcelona (Spain) 19-20 September 2019.

" Hierarchical Path Finding for Navigation Meshes." poster Best poster award
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games
Paris (France) 16-18 November 2015.

"From one to many: Simulating groups of agents with Reinforcement Learning controllers." poster
Int. conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Delft (Netherlands) 26-28 August 2015.

"Exploiting the potential of image based crowd rendering." poster
Eurographics
Zurich (Switzerland) 4-8 May 2015.

"Computing Exact Arbitrary Clearance for Navigation Meshes." poster
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA2013)
Anaheim, California (USA) 19-21 July 2013.

"Crowd Rendering with Per joint Impostors." poster video
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR2013)
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) 19-21 June 2013.

"La Realidad Virtual en el Aprendizaje de Historia Mediante la Interacción con Humanoides Virtuales."
III Jornadas sobre Realidad Virtual y Entornos Virtuales (JOREVIR'2009)
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) 7 September 2009.

"Exploring Virtual Reality as a Validation Methodology"
II Jornadas sobre Realidad Virtual y Entornos Virtuales (JOREVIR'2008)
Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Albacete (Spain) 11 June 2008.

"Evacuation Simulation. Research Models and Commercials Tools"
Simulation + Building Workshop
T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation & Energy Studies.
School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (USA) 10 November 2006.

"Improving the Realism of Agent Movement for High Density Crowd Simulation"
The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'06)
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria) 2-4 September 2006.
poster - extended abstract

"Human-Avatar Interacion in Virtual Environments"
Digital Media in Communication
Sponsored by The Annenberg Public Policy Center
University of Pennsylvania, 31 October - 1 November 2003




Thesis and Technical Reports:

N. Pelechano, Modeling Realistic Autonomous Agent Crowd Movement: Social Forces, Communication, Roles and Psychological Influences”.
(PhD dissertation, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. June 2006)
PhD Abstract.

N. Pelechano, L. Bull, M. Slater. Fast Collision Detection Between Cloth and a Deformable Human Body.
(technical report, University College London, 2003)

N. Pelechano: Real-Time Collision Detection Between Cloth and Skinned Avatars using OBB. 2002 (PDF)
Master Thesis at University College London (UCL) for my MSc VIVE (Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments)

N. Pelechano:Study and development of a 3D deformation simulation system of flexible figures oriented to be used in characters interactive visualization. 2001 (PDF) (Spanish)
Thesis for my last year of Ingenieria Informatica (Computer Science) at Universitat de Valencia




Professional Activities

President of the Spanish Eurographics Chapter, EGSE.
Associate Editor for, Computer Graphics Forum , Computers & Graphics , and Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Technologies for VR
Program Co-chair, ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games, MIG 2025. Zurich, Switzerland
Program Co-chair, SIBGRAPI - Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images. 2020. Brazil
General Conference Chair, Motion in Games, MIG. 2017. Barcelona
Program Co-chair, Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica, CEIG'17.

Program Committee Member, Symposium on Computer Animation, SCA. 2020-2025
Program Committee Member, Eurographics, EG. 2018, 2019, 2025
Program Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, I3D. 2018-2020
Program Committee Member, Motion in Games, MIG. 2011-2025
Program Committee Member, Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica. (Eurographics Spanish Chapter), CEIG 2014-2017.
Program Committee Member, Computer Animation and Soocial Agents, CASA. 2008-2020
Senior Program Committee Member, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'10 . 20-22 September 2010, Philadelphia, USA.
Program Co-Chair, Jornadas sobre Realidad Virtual y Entornos Virtuales, JOREVIR'09. 7 September 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
Program Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'09 . 14-16 September 2009, Amsterdam, Holland.
Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, GRAPP 2008-2018
Organization Committee Member, Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica, CEIG'08 . 3-6 September 2008. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.



Teaching

Fall 2013 - present: Computer Animation (CA-MIRI).

Spring 2013 - present: Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR-MIRI).

Fall 2012 - present: Sistemes Grafics Interactius ( SGI-MEI ) .

Fall 2012 - present: Interacció i Diseny D'interficies (IDI).

Fall 2009 - 2012: Virtual Reality, Immersive Interaction, Usability and Presence (RVA) .

Fall 2007 - 2011: Visualisation and Graphic Interaction (VIG).

Fall 2004, 2005 and 2006 : Teaching Assistant for Computer Graphics (CSE 460/CIS 560) at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), USA.

Past Students:

Haoran Yun Ríos, PhD student (2024)
Alejandro Ríos, PhD student & Assistant Professor (2022)
Vahid Rahmani, PhD student (2020)
Luis Delicado, Master thesis (2018)
Daniel Mateo, Undergraduate Final Project. (2018)
Marc Palomar, Undergraduate Final Project. (2018)
Ramon Oliva, PhD student (2016)
Otger Rogla, Master thesis (2016)
Miguel Angel Vico, Master Thesis (2016)
Oriol Romero, Undergraduate Final Project. (2015)
Alejandro Beacco, PhD student. (2014)
Maria Izquierdo, Master Thesis. (2014)
Carlos Fuentes, Master Thesis. (2014)
Luiselena Casadiego, Master Thesis. (2014)
David Ramírez, Undergraduate Final Project. (2014)
Maria Izquierdo, Undergraduate Final Project. (2012)
Ramon Oliva, Undergraduate Final Project(2010) and Master Thesis (2011)
Alejandro Beacco, Undergraduate Final Project (2008) and Master Thesis. (2009)
Albert Muñoz, Undergraduate Final Project. (2009)



Past Projects

The following list contains the main projects in which I have been collaborating:

CLIPE (MSCA-ITN-2019 - Innovative Training Networks) (2020-2024)

LOTTE pedestrian movement study with elevators simulation: funded by SOM. Carried out at the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Ali Malkawi. (2006)

Modeling of Crowd and Leader Behavior: funded by the U.S. Army UO FACT. Carried out at the University of Pennsylvania with Professors Norman I. Badler and Barry Silvermann. (2005)

Bystander: Simulation of a virtual scenario where we can study how real people behave when they confront a violent situation. For this project I developed a method to study the relation between human postures and emotions. This project is being developed by the Computer Science Department at the University College London (UCL) (2002-2003)

Prometheus – Cloth Simulator: This project is part of the Prometheus project, a real-time 3D studio broadcast plataform. The Cloth Simulator is being developed by the UCL VR group.

Finestrat: For this project an avatar that can be handle by a real actor has been developed. This avatar includes semiautonomous behavior and flexible deformation modelling based on FFD. Finestrat is part of the ARTIST project, an animation package for real-time interactive simulation. This project has been carried out by the ARTEC group at Institut de Robotica, Universitat de Valencia.



Contact 

   


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     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Phone: +34 93 413 7858 
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