Velko Vechev

Velko Vechev

Ph.D. student
Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab, ETH Zürich

E-Mail
velko.vechev@inf.ethz.ch
Address
Stampfenbachstrasse 48, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Room
ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science, STD, H 29.1


Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in the Advanced Interactive Technologies lab at ETH working with Professor Otmar Hilliges. I completed my MSc at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (2016) working on a navigation interface for semi-autonomous vehicles, followed by a research internship at the NUS-HCI lab in Singapore. Before joining the AIT Lab, I was the lead UX designer at DeepCode, developing an AI based suggestion interface to improve developer code quality. I am interested in creating novel interfaces using haptics and sensing in dynamic contexts (such as VR/AR/Sports) which harness the dexterity and mobility of the human body.

Publications with the AIT Lab

A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar

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Computational Design of Kinesthetic Garments

AuthorsV. Vechev, J. Zarate, B. Thomaszewski, O. Hilliges
In ProceedingsComputer Graphics Forum, 2022
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Dynamic Drawing Guidance via Electromagnetic Haptic Feedback

AuthorsT. Langerak, J. Zarate, V. Vechev, D. Panozzo, O. Hilliges
In ProceedingsarXiv preprint, 2019
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TacTiles: Dual-mode Low-power Electromagnetic Actuators for Rendering Continuous Contact and Spatial Haptic Patterns in VR

AuthorsV. Vechev*, J. Zarate*, D. Lindlbauer, R. Hinchet, H. Shea, O. Hilliges
In Proceedings2019 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Mar 2019
* These two authors contributed equally to this work.
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DextrES: Wearable Haptic Feedback for Grasping in VR via a Thin Form-Factor Electrostatic Brake

AuthorsR. Hinchet*, V. Vechev*, H. Shea, O. Hilliges
In ProceedingsACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technologies (UIST), Berlin, Germany, Oct 2018
* These two authors contributed equally to this work.
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MagTics: Flexible and Thin Form Factor Magnetic Actuators for Dynamic and Wearable Haptic Feedback

AuthorsF. Pece*, J. Zarate*, V. Vechev, N. Besse, O. Gudozhnik, H. Shea, O. Hilliges
In ProceedingsACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technologies (UIST), Quebec City, Canada, Oct 2017
* These two authors contributed equally to this work.

Honorable Mention Best Paper Award
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