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Niloofar Dezfuli

name	Niloofar Dezfuli
position	Research Assistant
eMail	niloo(AT)tk(dot)informatik(dot)tu-darmstadt(dot)de
phone	+49 (6151) 16 - 6670
fax	+49 (6151) 16 - 3052
office	S2\|02 A108
postal address	TU Darmstadt - FB 20 FG Telekooperation Hochschulstraße 10 D-64289 Darmstadt Germany

Short Bio

Niloofar is a doctoral researcher at the Telecooperation Research Group. Her advisor is Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser. Since 2010 she has been involved in Social IPTV project in cooperation with the electronic telecooperation research institute (ETRI) funded by the Korea Communications Commision (KCC). Niloo holds both Bachelor and Master degrees in computer science from Kish and RWTH-Aachen University respectively. Niloo is a member of ACM.

During her graduate studies, Niloo worked at the FIT-Fraunhofer institute in Sankt- Augustin as a student assistant and joint research on CSCW field under the supervision of Wolfgang Gräther and Prof. Wolfgang Prinz.

Research Interests

Human-computer interaction and
interaction design
User interface and experience design
Social interactive TV and social media
Mobile multimedia and video

News:

21.02.2012 Full Paper (Palm-based imaginary user interface for iTVs ) is accepted at EuroITV 2012.

16.02.2012: Hoch3 reports about the activities of the TK lab (Niloofar Dezfuli and Dr. Dirk Schnelle-Walka) around social interactive TV.http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/media/illustrationen/referat_kommunikation/publikationen_km/hoch3/pdf/hoch3_2012_1.pdf

10.02.2012: WiP (CoStream) is accepted at CHI 2012.

10.02.2012: WiP (Palm-based Remote Control) is accepted at CHI 2012.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences

07/2012, EuroITV 2012
05/2012, CHI 2012
4/2012, ACM Multimedia 2012
07/2011, EuroITV 2011
05/2011, CHI 2011

Research Projects

CoStream

We advocate using live video streams not only over larger distances, but also in-situ in smaller, closed events such as soccer matches or concerts. We present CoStream, a mobile live video sharing system and present its iterative design process.

PalmRC

We propose to leverage the hand as an interactive surface for TV remote control as the hand has the potential to be leveraged for device-less and eyes-free TV remote interaction without any third-party mediator device.

Designing Social Television

Research on social interactive television has been more focused on the creation of communication features. In this work, we show that depending on video content, social television has a greater potential to provide feelings of togetherness if real-life relationships are taken into account.

Publications

Niloofar Dezfuli, , Jochen Huber, Simon Olberding, Max Mühlhäuser, CoStream: In-situ Co-construction of Shared Experiences Through Mobile Video Sharing During Live Events, In Proc. CHI '12: Extended Abstracts of the 30th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. to appear, ACM, May 2012.

Niloofar Dezfuli, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi, Jochen Huber, Florian Müller, Max Mühlhäuser, Leveraging the Hand Surface as an Eyes-free TV Remote Control, In Proc. CHI '12: Extended Abstracts of the 30th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. to appear, ACM, May 2012.

Niloofar Dezfuli, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi, David Geerts, Max Mühlhäuser, A Study on Interpersonal Relationships for Social Interactive Television, In Proc. EuroITV '11: 9th international interactive conference on Interactive television. p.21-24, ACM, July 2011.

Patent Applications

Dezfuli, N., Schnelle, D., Abboud, O., and Schiller, B. ChannelRoom: A 3D Personalized Visualization for Advanced Channel Organization and Navigation. Filed February 10, 2012. (pending)

Teaching

Practicums:

HCI Practicum (WS 10-11)

Topic: Towards more implicit interactions based on situational contex.

Internet practicum (WS 10-11)

Topic: Implementing social features and integrating OSN on interactive televisions.

Bachelor practicum (WS 10-11)

Topic: Designing effective channel navigation for iTVs.

New thesis topics:

Rapid Application Development for iTV systems
Using Proxemic information for interaction to TV(Kinect)

If you are interested in doing your Bachelor, Master thesis do not hesitate to contact me.