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About Me

Lonni Besançon is an Assistant Professor of Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden, a 2023 fellow and local lead for ASAPBio, a Scientific Node Coordinator for the Swedish National Visualization Infrastrure InfraVis, and the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI). He obtained his Ph.D from Université Paris Saclay under the supervision of Tobias Isenberg from Inria and Mehdi Ammi from LIMSI/CNRS. He specializes in two primary research areas: developing and studying new interaction techniques for volumetric data visualization, and employing innovative visualizations to enhance statistical data interpretation. He is also dedicated to methodological improvements in research, particularly in detecting and mitigating questionable research practices and enhancing the transparency, robustness, and reusability of research results and materials. Notably, his sleuthing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic have garnered international recognition, with scientific outlets such as Science acknowledging his contributions. He is best known for his advocacy for better research practices and his sleuthing work which earned him distinctive titles such as "troublemaker for truth" (ABC), a "white knight of academia" (Le Parisien) and "dogged critic" (Science). In outreach efforts, he tries to make other researchers embrace post publication peer review and academic sleuthing.

Contact Details

+33689902815
lonni[dot]besancon(at)gmail[dot]com

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Education

Université Paris Sud

PhD in HCI • 2014-2017

I was supervised by Mehdi Ammi and Tobias Isenberg and worked on the building of An Interaction Continuum for 3D Dataset Visualization. With this thesis work, I demonstrated the potential of an interaction continuum for visualization by proposing hybrid interaction paradigms in an easy-to-maintain, easy-to-integrate, and affordable setups. It provides the necessary initial steps for an interaction continuum that will hopefully inspire the creation of more hybrid interaction techniques for 3D data interaction.

Université Paris Sud

Master of Research in HCI• 2013-2014

This year of study was done in parallel to my last year at Polytech Paris Sud, offering me the opportunity to also get a Master of Research.
Courses attended are:
  1. Algorithms
  2. Object-Oriented Programming (Java & C++)
  3. Graphics (OpenGl)
  4. Web Development (HTML,CSS,PHP,Javascript)
  5. Project Management
  6. Mathematics
  7. Economy and Business
  8. Communication

The University of Hong Kong

Master of Computer Science • 2013-2014:

I had the opportunity to study one year at the University of Hong (HKU) thanks to an exchange program. I attended classes at the faculty of engineering as well as the faculty of computer science. I did not get a diploma from the University of Hong Kong as it was not included in the exchange program. List of courses followed:
  1. Algorithms
  2. Object-Oriented Programming (Java & C++)
  3. Graphics (OpenGl)
  4. Web Development (HTML,CSS,PHP,Javascript)
  5. Project Management
  6. Mathematics
  7. Economy and Business
  8. Communication

Polytech Paris Sud

Master of Engineering• 2011-2014:

I got my Master of Engineering diploma in 2014 after three years of study at Polytech Paris Sud where I specialized as a Computer Science Engineer
Courses attended include:
  1. Algorithms
  2. Object-Oriented Programming (Java & C++)
  3. Graphics (OpenGl)
  4. Web Development (HTML,CSS,PHP,Javascript)
  5. Project Management
  6. Mathematics
  7. Economy and Business
  8. Communication

Polytech Paris Sud

Classe Préparatoire at Polytech Paris Sud • 2009-2011:

Two intense years of studying many scientific fields such as:
  1. Mathematics
  2. Computer Science
  3. Physics
  4. Chemistry
  5. Economy and Business
  6. Communication




Selected Publications



I have contributed a lot of articles on the COVID-19 pandemic which I do not list here. A full list of my publications is available on my google scholar profile.
Year Authors Publication PDF BibTex Video Slides Poster
2022 Mickael Sereno, Stéphane Gosset, Lonni Besançon, and Tobias Isenberg. "Hybrid Touch/Tangible Spatial Selection in Augmented Reality." Computer Graphics Forum, 41(3), June 2022. To appear
2022 Xiyao Wang, Lonni Besançon, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Understanding differences between combinations of 2D and 3D input and output devices for 3D data visualization" International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2022, 163, pp.102820.
2022 Lonni Besançon, Elisabeth Bik , James Heathers , Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz "Correction of scientific literature: Too little, too late!" PLOS Biology 20(3): e3001572
2022 Mickael Sereno, Lonni Besançon, Tobias Isenberg "Point Specification in Collaborative Visualization for 3D Scalar Fields Using Augmented Reality" Virtual Reality, Springer Verlag, In press
2022 Mickael Sereno, Xiyao Wang, Lonni Besançon, Michael Mcguffin, Tobias Isenberg "Collaborative Work in Augmented Reality: A Survey" IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, In press
2022 Olivier Pourret, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Najmeh Shaghaei, Elenora M van Rijsingen, Lonni Besançon "Towards more inclusive metrics and open science to measure research assessment in Earth and natural sciences" Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, In press
2021 Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Lonni Besançon, Antoine Flahault, Raphael Wimmer "Impact of mobility reduction on COVID-19 mortality: absence of evidence might be due to methodological issues" Nature Scientific Reports
2021 Ricardo Langner, Lonni Besançon, Christopher Collins, Tim Dwyer, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Bongshin Lee, Charles Perin, Christian Tominski "An Introduction to Mobile Data Visualization" Book Chapter in "Mobile Data Visualization"
2021 Lonni Besançon, Wolfgang Aigner, Magdalena Boucher, Tim Dwyer, Tobias Isenberg "3D Mobile Data Visualization" Book Chapter in "Mobile Data Visualization"
2021 Jim Smiley, Benjamin Lee, Siddhant Tandon, Maxime Cordeil, Lonni Besançon, Jarrod Knibbe, Bernhard Jenny, Tim Dwyer "The MADE-Axis: A Modular Actuated Device to Embody the Axis of a Data Dimension" Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, ISS, Article 501 (November 2021), 23 pages.
2021 Lonni Besançon, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Corentin Segalas, Haiting Jiang, Paola Masuzzo, Cooper Smout, Eric Billy, Maxime Deforet, Clémence Leyrat "Open science saves lives: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic" BMC Medical Research Methodology 21, 117 (2021)
2021 Jouni Helske, Satu Helske, Matthew Cooper, Anders Ynnerman, Lonni Besançon "Can visualization alleviate dichotomous thinking? Effects of visual representations on the cliff effect" IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 3397-3409, 1 Aug. 2021.
2021 Lonni Besançon, Anastasia Bezerianos, Pierre Dragicevic, Petra Isenberg, Yvonne Jansen "Publishing Visualization Studies as Registered Reports: Expected Benefits and Researchers' Attitudes" Proceedings of the first alt.VIS workshop, IEEE VIS 2021.
2021 Nicholas Spyrison, Benjamin Lee, Lonni Besançon "'Is IEEE VIS* that* good?' On key factors in the initial assessment of manuscript and venue quality" Proceedings of the first alt.VIS workshop, IEEE VIS 2021.
2021 Lonni Besançon, Anders Ynnerman, Daniel Keefe, Lingyun Yu, Tobias Isenberg "The State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization" Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, 2021, 40 (1), pp.293--326.
2021 Moritz Hilscher, Hendrik Tjabben, Hendrik Rätz, Amir Semmo, Lonni Besançon, Jürgen Döllner, Matthias Trapp "Service-based Analysis and Abstraction for Content Moderation of Digital Images" Graphics Interface 2021, May 2021, Vancouver, Canada.
2020 Lonni Besançon, Niklas Rönnberg, Jonas Löwgren, Jonathan P Tennant, Matthew Cooper "Open up: a survey on open and non-anonymized peer reviewing" Research Integrety and Peer Review 5, 8 (2020)
2020 Lonni Besançon, Amir Semmo, David Biau, Bruno Frachet, Virginie Pineau, El Hadi Sariali, Marc Soubeyrand, Rabah Taouachi, Tobias Isenberg, Pierre Dragicevic "Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images and Videos Through Stylization" Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, 2020, 39 (1), pp.462--483.
2020 Xiyao Wang, David Rousseau, Lonni Besançon, Mickael Sereno, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Towards an understanding of augmented reality extensions for existing 3D data analysis tools" CHI '20 - 38th SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, Apr 2020, Honolulu, United States
2020 Andy Cockburn, Pierre Dragicevic, Lonni Besançon, Carl Gutwin "Threats of a replication crisis in empirical computer science" Communications of the ACM, August 2020, Vol. 63 No. 8, Pages 70-79
2019 Lonni Besançon, Mickael Sereno, Lingyun Yu, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Hybrid Touch/Tangible Spatial 3D Data Selection" Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, In press, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2019), 38.
2019 Xiyao Wang, Lonni Besançon, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Augmenting Tactile 3D Data Navigation With Pressure Sensing" Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, In press, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2019), 38.
2019 Mickael Sereno, Lonni Besançon, Tobias Isenberg "Supporting Volumetric Data Visualization and Analysis by Combining Augmented Reality Visuals with Multi-Touch Input" EuroVis Extended Abstracts, Jun 2019, Porto, Portugal.
2019 Kahin Akram Hassan, Yu Liu, Lonni Besançon, Jimmy Johansson, and Niklas Rönnberg. "A Study on Visual Representations for Active PlantWall Data Analysis" In MDPI Data, 2019.
2019 Jouni Helske, Matthew Cooper, Anders Ynnerman, Lonni Besançon "The Significant Effect of Visual Representations on Dichotomous Thinking" Journée Visu 2019, Agro Paris Tech, France, Mai 2019.
2019 Lonni Besançon, Pierre Dragicevic "The Continued Prevalence of Dichotomous Inferences at CHI" ACM CHI 2019 (alt.chi). May 4 - 7, 2019, Glasgow, UK.
2019 Tanja Blascheck, Lonni Besançon, Anastasia Bezerianos, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg "Glanceable Visualization: Studies of Data Comparison Performance on Smartwatches" IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Jan. 2019
2018 Lonni Besançon, Amir Semmo, David Biau, Bruno Frachet, Virginie Pineau, El Hadi Sariali, Rabah Taouachi, Tobias Isenberg, Pierre Dragicevic "Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization." Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Aug 2018, Victoria, Canada. pp.13.
2018 Lonni Besançon "An Interaction Continuum for 3D Dataset Visualization.", PhD Thesis, 2018.
2018 Tanja Blascheck, Anastasia Bezerianos, Lonni Besançon, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg "Preparing for Perceptual Studies: Position and Orientation of Wrist-worn Smartwatches for Reading Tasks.", Workshop on Data Visualization on Mobile Devices, ACM CHI, 2018, Montréal, Canada
2017 Lonni Besançon, Pierre Dragicevic "La Différence Significative entre Valeurs p et Intervalles de Confiance", 29EME conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, Aout 2017, Poitiers, France.
2017 Xiyao Wang, Lonni Besançon, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Augmenting Tactile 3D Data Exploration With Pressure Sensing", IEEE VIS 2017, Oct 2017, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. 2017
2017 Lonni Besançon, Paul Issartel, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Interactive 3D Data Exploration Using Hybrid Tactile/Tangible Input", Journées Visu 2017, Jun 2017, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2017 Lonni Besançon, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Pressure-Based Gain Factor Control for Mobile 3D Interaction using Locally-Coupled Devices", CHI 2017 - ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017, Denver, United States. pp.1831-1842.
2017 Lonni Besançon, Paul Issartel, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg "Usability Comparison of Mouse, Touch and Tangible Inputs for 3D Data Manipulation", CHI 2017 - ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017, Denver, United States. pp.4727-4740
2016 Mickael Sereno, Mehdi Ammi, Tobias Isenberg, Lonni Besançon Tangible Brush: Tactile-Tangible Hybrid 3D Selection, Extended Abstract IEEE VIS, October 23–28, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2016.
2016 Paul Issartel, Lonni Besançon, F. Guéniat, T. Isenberg, M. Ammi Preference Between Allocentric and Egocentric 3D Manipulation in a Locally Coupled Configuration. ACM 4th Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI)
2016 Lonni Besançon, Paul Issartel, M. Ammi, T. Isenberg "Hybrid Tactile/Tangible Interaction for 3D Data Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(1), January 2017. (10 pages)
2016 Paul Issartel, L. Besançon, Tobias Isenberg, Mehdi Ammi "A Tangible Volume for Portable 3D Interaction", International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2016

Teaching and Supervision

Supervision

Year Name Degree Affiliation Report
2017 Xiyao Wang Supélec Master
2017 Marie Cheng Polytech Paris-Sud Bachelor
2016-2017 Mickael Francisco Sereno Polytech Paris-Sud Student Project

Teaching

Year Course Title Location Level Role # hours # students
2014--2018 Interactive Information Visualization Université Paris Saclay Graduate Lab Sessions ~14 ~30
2016, 2017 Algorithms, Complexity, Graph Theory Polytech Paris Sud Graduate Lectures + Tutorials ~20 ~50
2014--2016 Algorithms and data structures Polytech Paris Sud Undergraduate Lab Sessions & Tutorials ~30 ~20
2015, 2016 Academic Internship Tutor Polytech Paris Sud Graduate // // 2
2015 Computer & Network Security Polytech Paris Sud Graduate Lab Sessions ~15 ~30
2014 Assembly Language Polytech Paris Sud Undergraduate Lab Session 4 28

Community Service and Activities

Program Committees

  • ACM IHM Program Committee for Papers (2018)
  • IEEE Eurovis Program Committee for Posters (2018)
  • IEEE Eurovis Program Committee for Short Papers (2018)

Reviewing for Grant Applications

  • ANR Programme Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs (2018)

Reviewing

An exhaustive list (with paper count) is available here (to come later), on my resume, or by clicking on the picture on the left. I am reviewing almost every year for (in alphebetical order): 3DUI (now IEEE VR), CHI, ICMI, EuroVIS, IHM, ISMAR, ISS, MobileHCI, NordiCHI, OzCHI, SUI, TEI, UIST, VRST, VIS, VR.

Work

IRT SystemX

Research Engineer Intern• March 2014 - September 2014

Design, Implementation and Evaluation on driving simulateur of the interface of semi-autonomous cars.
Partners: Renault, Alstom, Valeo, M3Systems, SysNav, CAE
Design of the visual and sound HCI (Human Computer Interface) with the help of a sound designer. The HCI specifications were made thanks to a user-centered design as well as a state of the art and an analysis of the existing prototypes. Implementation of the HCI and its new components with engineers from Valeo onto a driving simulator. Evaluation of the HCI concept in order to refine the HCI specifications.

Thales Air Systems

Software Developper Intern • June 2013 - September 2013

Development of an application which also involved Ecole Centrale Paris in a research project, so as to define a method to help generating and evaluating new antennas' concepts using Bayes Nets, CSPs, and several Java APIs.
The application developed uses Bayes Nets so as to represent and compute all the requirements an antenna should respect. The program allows to add requirements, possible values for different components and/or performance constraints and the user can ask the program to solve the problem which will be done thanks to a fast algorithm.
The application itself allows engineers from Thales to easily create Bayes Nets without ever manipulating them so that they do not require any Bayes Net background to solve their complex problems. Hence, getting the ideal architecture of a new antenna is easier since engineers only need to formulate their problem ( constraints, performance, requirements, available pieces ... ). The resolution of the problem itself is done by the program.
Delivered :

  • Java program with an intuitive interface
  • Complete documentation on the program and some examples
  • Teaching sessions on how to think the conception problems differently so the program can be used


Générale de Santé

Network Engineer Intern • Mai 2011 - July 2011

Developing of a network monitoring system based on Nagios and using mainly FAN (Fully Automated Nagios) for a private hospital.
The system had to monitor different machines such as switches, computers, servers or printers and had to be platform independent. Among other things, the internship included working with unix commands, and several network skills such as understanding and using the SNMP protocol for instance.