Roger Boldu

Roger is a PhD candidate at Augmented Human Lab. Before joining the lab, he was a visiting researcher with the Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, where he did his B.Sc thesis. He graduated as an Electrical Engineer from La Salle, Ramon Llull University, Spain.

His research interest is in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Wearable Technologies.

Personal Page: www.rboldu.com

Publications

  • Boldu, R., Matthies, D.J., Zhang, H. and Nanayakkara, S., 2020. AiSee: An Assistive Wearable Device to Support Visually Impaired Grocery Shoppers. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(4), pp.1-25. [DOI], [PDF]
  • Boldu, R., Jain, S., Forero Cortes, J.P., Zhang, H. and Nanayakkara, S., 2019, October. M-Hair: Creating Novel Tactile Feedback by Augmenting the Body Hair to Respond to Magnetic Field. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 323-328). [DOI], [PDF]
  • Boldu, R., Jain, S., Cortes, J.P.F., Zhang, H. and Nanayakkara, S., 2019. M-Hair: Extended Reality by Stimulating the Body Hair. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 XR (pp. 27-28). [DOI], [PDF]
  • Roger Boldu Busquets (2018). Revealing Inaccessible Information on-the-go, by Augmenting Humans. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (pp. 1802-1804). ACM. [URL], [PDF]
  • Boldu, R., Dancu, A., Matthies, D. J.C., Buddhika, T., Siriwardhana, S., & Nanayakkara, S. (2018). FingerReader2. 0: Designing and Evaluating a Wearable Finger-Worn Camera to Assist People with Visual Impairments while Shopping. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(3), 94. ACM. [DOI]
  • Boldu, R., Dancu, A., Matthies, D.J.C., Cascon, P.G., Ransir, S., and Nanayakkara, S. (2018). Thumb-In-Motion: Evaluating Thumb-to-Ring Microgestures for Athletic Activity. In Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’18), Berlin, Germany. ACM. [DOI]
  • Roger Boldu, Haimo Zhang, Juan Pablo, Sachith Muthukumarana and Suranga Nanayakkara. InSight: A Systematic Approach to Create Dynamic Human-Controller-Interactions. In Proceedings of the 8th Augmented Human International Conference (AH'17). ACM, Silicon Valley, LA, USA, Article No. 26. Best Short Paper Award! [PDF]