PhD – User Experience (UX), Haptic, Wearable Technologies & Robotics

"My philosophy on innovation centers on creating natural, intuitive user-product interactions. By placing users at the heart of my research and adopting a holistic approach, I strive to design hedonic experiences that are both enjoyable and meaningful."

Available for consulting!

Don't hesitate to reach out to me at rognon.carine (-at-) gmail.com

An overview of my profile

My skills

User Experience
Wearable Technologies
Haptics
Robotics
Biomechanical Engineering

User Experience (UX)

A meaningful user experience goes beyond efficiency—it’s about creating designs that integrate intuitive metaphors and aesthetic pleasure, ensuring the product is not only functional but also desirable and that users want to engage with consistently.

Work done in this field

  • Longitudinal user studies & learning effects
  • Real environment user studies
  • Large scale user studies & statistical analysis
  • Holistic design of user experience
  • Definition of metrics to quantify new interactions and devices
  • Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR/VR) behavior and comparison with Real Life (RL) (designed in Unity)

Research portfolio

Wearable Technologies

A wearable device should seamlessly integrate into daily life, remaining unoticed until needed. It must work in harmony with the user, offering both functionality and comfort without disrupting the natural flow of the day.

Work done in this field

  • Soft & textile wearable devices
  • Long term wearability
  • Comfort assessment
  • Adaptation to many morphologies
  • Embedding of sensors and actuators
  • Wristband wearability and usefulness
  • Exoskeleton

Research portfolio

Haptics

Touch is a fundamental aspect of interaction—whether with a device or another person—playing a crucial role in fostering connection, immersion, and improved objects manipulation, all of which enhance the overall user experience.

For a truly seamless experience, the sensation of touch must not only consider pleasantness but also harmonize with other sensory feedback to create a cohesive, intuitive interaction.

Work done in this field

  • Tactile and kinesthetic haptic
  • Haptic to increase confidence during interaction, enabling seamless communication between user and device
  • Rich haptic, haptic language and semantic for high bandwidth communication
  • Realistic haptic to increase immersion
  • Direct and mediated social touch
  • Human tactile perception & proprioception
  • Full loop feeback between sensing and rendering touch

Research portfolio

Robotics

Robotics encompasses much more than rigid humanoids. It spans a wide range of technologies, from robots designed to assist humans in their tasks, to compliant robots that interact with, or even integrate into, the human body.

Work done in this field

  • Mobile & aerial robots
  • Soft & printed actuators
  • Sensors & actuators feedback loop
  • Teleoperation (in Real Life and Virtual Reality)
  • CAD conception
  • 3D printing

Research portfolio

Biomechanical Engineering

Biomedical technologies empower individuals to overcome injuries and regain the ability to lead full, independent lives.

Work done in this field

  • Biomechanics, orthopedics & rehabilitation
  • Exoskeletons & prosthesis
  • Biodegradable implants & biocomptability
  • Hands-on understanding of sport mechanics with 8 years of competitive swimming at an international level

Research portfolio

Talks and public outreach

EPFL Information Days

Lausanne, 2024

Alumni Presentation for potential future EPFL students of my career trajectory after my Bachelor in Microengineering.

Click here for the description of the EPFL Information Days

CHI Conference

Hawaï, 2024

Presentation from my intern's work (Shan Xu, PhD.) at Meta on "Designing Haptic Feedback for Sequential Gestural Inputs".

Live on national TV - RTS & TV5 Monde

Lausanne, 2019

Live demonstration of the "FlyJacket" on Pascal Meyer, CEO of Qoqa, and interview on Swiss National TV (in French).

CHI Conference

Online, 2021

Online presentation of our work on "A Multichannel Pneumatic Analog Control System for Haptic Displays".

CES Las Vegas

Las Vegas, 2019

Presentation of the "FlyJacket" at the Swiss Pavillon with Presence Switzerland.

More information about the Swiss Pavillon at this event

IEEE World Haptics Conference

Tokyo, 2019

Presentation of my work on "Perception of a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device to Render the Sensation of Flight".

IEEE Robosoft Conference

Seoul, 2019

Presentation of my work on "Soft Haptic Device to Render the Sensation of Flying Like a Drone".

World Economic Forum

Davos, 2019

Presentation of the "FlyJacket" to showcase the technologies developed by the Swiss Universities to politiciens.

Website of the World Economic Forum

Radio Interview Couleur 3

Lausanne, 2018

Interview about the "FlyJacket" for the Swiss radio show "Point Barre" of Couleur 3 (in French).

HUB week

Boston, 2018

Public demonstration of the "FlyJacket" at the Aerial Futures: The Drone Frontier during the HUB week with SwissNex.

More information about the participation of NCCR Robotics to the event

The Future of Story Telling

New York City, 2018

Public demonstration of the "FlyJacket" to the digital media and artistic community in Staten Island (NYC).

Website of The Future of Story Telling

Interview for the EPFL News

Lausanne, 2018

Interview about the "FlyJacket" for the EPFL News.

NCCR Industry Days

Lausanne, 2018

Public demonstration of the new version of the force feedback on the "FlyJacket".

NCCR Robotics description of the event

IEEE ICRA Conference

Brisbane, 2018

Presentation of my work on "FlyJacket: An Upper-Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control".

Lates at the Science Museum

London, 2017

The FlyJacket was invited by the Swiss Embassy to participate in the Lates event of the London Science museum.

Click here for the website of the Lates at the London Science Museum

IEEE World Haptics Conference

Munich, 2017

Demonstration of the "FlyJacket" to the haptic community.

NCCR Industry Days

Lausanne, 2017

Public demonstration of the "FlyJacket".

NCCR Robotics description of the event

EPFL Drone Days

Lausanne, 2017

Public demonstration of the "FlyJacket".

NCCR Robotics description of the event

NCCR Industry Days

Lausanne, 2016

First public demonstration of the "FlyJacket" to the industrials.

NCCR Robotics description of the event

EPFL Open Days

Lausanne, 2016

Public demonstration of the "FlyJacket".

Live on national TV at Cybathlon

Zurich, 2016

The FlyJacket was presented for the first time at Cybathlon with a live on Swiss National television program Einstein (SRF, in German).