Biography
I am a haptics research engineer at Ultraleap. Before joining Ultraleap, I worked as a research fellow in Interactive Graphics at the Multi-Sensory Devices (MSD) group from University College London.
I completed a PhD on computational 3D interaction techniques for immersive Virtual Reality under the supervision from Prof. Sriram Subramanian at the University of Sussex.
I previously interned as a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher at Adobe Research and I hold an electronics engineering background.
My research work includes optimisation techniques to improve human factors related to manipulation, navigation and selection in Virtual Reality. I am currently working on developing multimodal 3D displays using ultrasonic phased arrays of transducers to provide users with visual, auditory and haptic experiences.
Publications
It sounds cool: Exploring sonification of mid-air haptic textures exploration on texture judgments, body perception, and motor behaviour
Roberto Montano-Murillo, Dario Pittera, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou, Marianna Obrist, Patricia Cornelio. ACM Transactions on Haptics 2023.
OpenMPD: A low-level presentation engine for Multimodal Particle-based Displays
Roberto Montano-Murillo, Ryuji Hirayama, Diego Martinez Plasencia. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2023.
TipTrap: A Co-located Direct Manipulation Technique for Acoustically Levitated Content
GS-PAT: High-speed Multi-point Sound-Fields for Phased Arrays of Transducers
Martinez-Plasencia Diego, Hirayama Ryuji, Montano-Murillo Roberto A. and Subramanian Sriram. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph 2020). August 24 – 28, 2020, Online Event.
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Slicing-Volume: Hybrid 3D/2D Multi-target Selection Technique for Dense Virtual Environments
Montano-Murillo Roberto, Nguyen Cuong, Habib Kazi Rubaiat, Subramanian Sriram, DiVerdi Stephen and Martinez-Plasencia Diego. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), March 22 – 26, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Drift-Correction Techniques for Scale-Adaptive VR Navigation
Montano-Murillo Roberto, Cornelio-Martinez Patricia, Subramanian Sriram, Martinez-Plasencia, Diego. UIST 2019: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 20 – 23, 2019, New Orleans, USA.
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Designer Led Computational Approach to Generate Mappings for Devices with Low Gestural Resolution
Montano-Murillo Roberto, Han Teng, Irani Pourang, Martinez-Plasencia Diego and Subramanian Sriram. Interact 2019: 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2 – 6, 2019, Paphos, Cyprus.
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NaviFields: Relevance Fields for Adaptive VR Navigation
Montano-Murillo Roberto, Gatti Elia, Oliver Segovia Miguel, Obrist Marianna, Molina Masso Jose P. and Martinez-Plasencia Diego. UIST 2017: 30th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, October 20 – 23, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
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Erg-O: Ergonomic Optimization of Immersive Virtual Environments
Montano-Murillo, Roberto, Subramanian Sriram and Martinez-Plasencia Diego. UIST 2017: 30th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, October 20 – 23, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
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Teaching
Oct 2019 – Feb 2020: Module convenor at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2018: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2017: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2016: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Jan – Dec, 2014: Teacher at Universidad Tecnólogica de Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico.
Modules: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Physics.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2018: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2017: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Feb – May, 2016: Teaching assistant at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Module: Programming for 3D.
Jan – Dec, 2014: Teacher at Universidad Tecnólogica de Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico.
Modules: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Physics.
CV
Education
2015 – 2019: PhD in Informatics, Interact Lab, University of Sussex, UK.
Thesis title: ‘Computational Interaction Techniques for 3D Selection, Manipulation and Navigation in Immersive VR‘.
Thesis advisor: Sriram Subramanian.
Thesis committee: Steven Feiner and Ian Wakeman.
2012 – 2014: MSc in Electronics Engineering, National Technological Institute of Mexico.
Thesis title: ‘An Interactive System for Fine Motor Rehabilitation’.
2006 – 2010: BSc in Electronics Engineering, National Technological Institute of Mexico.
Thesis title: ‘Design of a gesture-detection system for wheelchair control’.
Thesis title: ‘Computational Interaction Techniques for 3D Selection, Manipulation and Navigation in Immersive VR‘.
Thesis advisor: Sriram Subramanian.
Thesis committee: Steven Feiner and Ian Wakeman.
2012 – 2014: MSc in Electronics Engineering, National Technological Institute of Mexico.
Thesis title: ‘An Interactive System for Fine Motor Rehabilitation’.
2006 – 2010: BSc in Electronics Engineering, National Technological Institute of Mexico.
Thesis title: ‘Design of a gesture-detection system for wheelchair control’.
Service & Volunteering
- ICMI 2017 Program committee.
- Peer reviewing: CHI 2017-2020, UIST 2017-2020, Interact 2019, ICMI 2017, Eurohaptics 2020, Eurographics 2019, ISS 2018, Elsevier IJHCS 2020, Elsevier IRBM 2016.
- Student volunteering: ISS 2017.
- Volunteer in Brighton Science festival 2017.
- Volunteer in Cheltenham Science Festival 2017.
Internships & Visiting
- Research visit in MIT, HCI Engineering group at CSAIL in Boston, MA, USA, 2019.
- Research internship with Cuong Nguyen, Stephen DiVerdi and Rubaiat Habib Kazi at Adobe Research, San Francisco CA, USA, 2018.
Training
- Workshop: HBP Brain and Body Workshop. Does the Brain Need a Body to be a Brain? Barcelona, 2018.
- Course: Computational Approaches to Interaction Design, CHI 2017, Denver Colorado, USA.
- Course: Making Sense of Statistics in HCI: From P to Bayes and Beyond, CHI 2017, Denver Colorado, USA.
- Summer school: ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction 2017, Lucerne, Switzerland, ETH Zurich.
- Summer school: PhD Summer School 2016, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.