{"id":2,"date":"2021-10-21T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugobrument.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:20:13","slug":"page-d-exemple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hugobrument.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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XR Engineer \u00b7 User Researcher \u00b7 Teacher \u00b7 Project Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugo Brument<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I design, build, and evaluate immersive systems, from Unity prototypes on Meta Quest to XR training platforms deployed with NATO operators. Seven years of applied research at TU Wien and Inria taught me to ship working software and to prove, with data, that it works for the people who use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VR (Unity, Unreal) \u00b7 AR (Lens Studio, Vuforia) \u00b7 Data Analyses (R, Python) \u00b7 User studies \u00b7 EU \/ FFG \/ NATO projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

peer-reviewed publications: 4 journal articles, 17 conference papers, 165 citations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u20ac800k+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R&D funding co-acquired (EU, FFG, NATO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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funded R&D projects, delivered or running<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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15+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

user studies designed, run, and analysed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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15+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

students supervised (PhD, master, bachelor)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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awards, incl. ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies and IEEE ISMAR 2026 Outstanding Reviewer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Transferable skills<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I bring to a team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

XR software engineering<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Unity and C# applications for Meta Quest and PC VR, multi-user networked XR (H2020 Bridges), and integration of novel hardware such as haptic and olfactory displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity \u00b7 C# \u00b7 Unreal \u00b7 Meta Quest<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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User research & UX evaluation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Controlled experiments and usability studies with clear success measures: task performance, workload, comfort, and cybersickness. 15+ studies designed, run, and analysed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiment design \u00b7 Usability \u00b7 Eye tracking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Data analysis & visualisation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pipelines combining motion tracking, eye tracking, and physiological data, statistical modelling in R and Python, and findings turned into design decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R \u00b7 Python \u00b7 Mixed models \u00b7 Matlab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project & stakeholder management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Multi-partner projects with budgets up to \u20ac500k across EU, FFG, and NATO consortia: milestones, deliverables, reporting, and partner coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budgets \u00b7 Milestones \u00b7 Consortia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Funding & business development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Proposals for EU Horizon, FFG, NATO, FWF, and WWTF, with \u20ac800k+ in R&D funding co-acquired, from scope definition to consortium building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposals \u00b7 Partnerships \u00b7 Scoping<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Team leadership & communication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Supervised 15+ students, responsible for university courses, and presented results to engineers, executives, and ministries, including workshops with the Austrian Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mentoring \u00b7 Teaching \u00b7 Presenting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projects that reached real users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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NATO STO HFM-NMSG-354<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBRN XR training platform<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Designed, built, and deployed a VR training platform for CBRN scenarios, used with military and civilian operators across NATO nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HFM Panel Excellence Award 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project page \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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IEEE TVCG 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shiftly: shape-shifting haptics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Origami-inspired shape-shifting haptic device for VR, from mechanical prototype to Unity integration and user evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardware \u00b7 Unity \u00b7 User study<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICAT-EGVE 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCENTAUR: smell in VR<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Encountered-type olfactory display that brings large-scale smell interaction to virtual reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Paper Honorable Mention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the paper \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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IEEE VRW 2025 \u00b7 FFG \u20ac300k<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GeoCROW: geodata on Meta Quest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Interactive geospatial data visualisation on standalone headsets, making dense spatial data usable for situational awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta Quest \u00b7 Data visualisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the paper \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Background<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since January 2022, I have been a University Assistant (post-doc) at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Research Unit led by Prof. Hannes Kaufmann (https:\/\/www.vr.tuwien.ac.at<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that, I was a third-year PhD student at the National Institute of Research in Informatics and Automation (Inria<\/a>) in Rennes, France. I was under the supervision of Ferran Argelaguet from Hybrid <\/a>team, Maud Marchal from Rainbow <\/a>team and Anne-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Olivier from MimeTIC <\/a>team. My PhD, entitled “Towards User-Adapted Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments: Study of Factors Influencing Users Behavior in Virtual Reality” focused on research contributing to navigation in Virtual Environments literature. It aimed at providing new insights about the influence of experimental conditions on users’ navigation in Virtual Reality (VR) as well as new analyzes methods for assessing locomotion techniques to have a better understanding of human perception and action while navigating in VR. We aimed at improving users’ navigation in VR through techniques based on human locomotion laws. We used a multidisciplinary approach combining Computer Science, Human Movement Science and Perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before, I studied at the National Institute of Applied Science (Insa Rennes<\/a>) in France, where I completed my master\u2019s degree in Computer Science in 2018. I also did an exchange semester at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics during my master’s (BME<\/a>) in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research focuses on Extended Reality (XR). In particular, I focus on locomotion, motion perception, human factors during XR interaction, virtual avatars, tangible interfaces, spatial collaboration of users, human-robot interaction, and embodied conversational agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download my full CV at the following link<\/a> (English version).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last update: October 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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