Christian Holz
Associate Professor
Leads the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab, building wearable and mixed-reality systems that use machine learning on sensor data for interaction and predictive mobile health monitoring.
Christian Holz's lab at ETH Zurich works on interfaces & interaction techniques, accessibility, health & wellbeing and robot perception & SLAM. 76 papers since 2023, 42 at top venues, mostly UIST and NeurIPS. 3 PhD students. 3 alumni, most often to Engineering Lead at robotics and Meta.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 20/ year
- at T1 venues
- 55%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 3
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 17 papers2026 · T1 13 · collecting
- 17 papers2025 · T1 10
- 26 papers2024 · T1 10
- 16 papers2023 · T1 9
T1 venuesOtherVenues: UIST, NeurIPS, CHI, ECCV, ICMI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Interfaces & interaction techniques5 papers
- interaction4 papers
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing1 paper
- Robot perception & SLAM1 paper
- sensor data1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202617 papers
- Proceedings of ACM CHI Honorable MentionAutomating UI Optimization through Multi-Agentic Reasoning
- UIST (T1)CapFM: A Foundation Model for Capacitive Touch Sensing
- Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringContinuous Heart Rate Variability Estimation From PPG via State-Space Modeling
- ECCV (T1)EgoExoMoCap: Distributed Ego-Exo Human Motion Capture
- ECCV (T1)EgoHRV: Continuous Heart Rate Variability Estimation from Egocentric Systems for Autonomic Response and Skill Assessment
- ECCV (T1)EgoPHI: Estimating 3D Hand-Object Contact and Force from Egocentric Vision
- ICRA (T1)Frequency-Weighted Neural Kalman Filters
- UIST (T1)InvisiSpeech: Making Silent Speech Invisible through a Miniature Intraoral Sensor
- CHI (T1)Point & Grasp: Flexible Selection of Out-of-Reach Objects Through Probabilistic Cue Integration
- CHI (T1)Preference-Guided Prompt Optimization for Image Generation
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Retrofitting Existing 3D Objects with Surface-Conforming Capacitive Sensing
- ECCV (T1)SkillSpotter: Pose-Aware Multi-View Skilled Action Detection and Grading in Ego-Exo Videos
202517 papers
- International Conference on Intelligent Virtual AgentsA Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents
- TVCGBeyond Subjectivity: Continuous Cybersickness Detection Using EEG-based Multitaper Spectrum Estimation
- BMC Public HealthBeyond The Hours Slept: Inconsistent Sleep Routines Threaten Mental Health In 100,000 UK Biobank Participants
- NeurIPS (T1)Contimask: Explaining Irregular Time Series via Perturbations in Continuous Time
- Proceedings of ACM CHI Honorable MentionContinual Human-in-the-Loop Optimization
- UIST (T1)Efficient Visual Appearance Optimization by Learning from Pior Preferences
- NeurIPS (T1)egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-World Tasks
- ICCV (T1)egoPPG: Heart Rate Estimation from Eye-Tracking Cameras in Egocentric Systems to Benefit Downstream Vision Tasks
- CVPR (T1)EgoPressure: A Dataset for Hand Pressure and Pose Estimation in Egocentric Vision
- ICCV (T1)Group Inertial Poser: Multi-Person Pose and Global Translation from Sparse Inertial Sensors and Ultra-Wideband Ranging
- IJCAI (T1)Human Motion Capture from Loose and Sparse Inertial Sensors with Garment-aware Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS (T1)Learning Without Augmenting: Unsupervised Time Series Representation Learning via Frame Projections
202426 papers
- IROS (T1)Accurately Tracking Relative Positions on Moving Trackers based on UWB Ranging and Inertial Sensing without Anchors
- ICML (T1)An Unsupervised Approach for Periodic Source Detection in Time Series
- JMIR NeurotechnologyAssessing the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System as a Driver of Sleep Quality in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: Observation Study
- Proceedings of ACM CUIChatbots With Attitude: Enhancing Chatbot Interactions Through Dynamic Personality Infusion
- TVCGComparing Synchronous and Asynchronous Task Delivery in Mixed Reality Environments
- Proceedings on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous TechnologiesDetecting Users' Emotional States during Passive Social Media Use
- ECCV (T1)EgoPoser: Robust Real-Time Egocentric Pose Estimation from Sparse and Intermittent Observations Everywhere
- NeurIPS (T1)EgoSim: An Egocentric Multi-view Simulator and Real Dataset for Body-worn Cameras during Motion and Activity
- Proceedings of ACM VRSTHistoLab VR: A User Elicitation Study Exploring the Potential of Virtual Reality Game-based Learning for Hazard Awareness
- PLOS ONEInterpretable Models for Predicting Perceived Sleep Quality using Meaningful Cardiovascular and Behavioral Features
- ECCV (T1)MANIKIN: Biomechanically Accurate Neural Inverse Kinematics for Human Motion Estimation
- Proceedings of ACM EICSMARLUI: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Point-and-Click UIs
202316 papers
- UAI (T1)BeliefPPG: Uncertainty-aware Heart Rate Estimation from PPG signals via Belief Propagation
- Proceedings on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous TechnologiesBMAR: Barometric and Motion-based Alignment and Refinement for Offline Signal Synchronization across Devices
- TVCGControllers or Bare Hands? A Controlled Evaluation of Input Techniques on Interaction Performance and Exertion in Virtual Reality
- ICMICross-Device Shortcuts: Seamless Attention-guided Content Transfer via Opportunistic Deep Links between Apps and Devices
- NeurIPS (T1)Finding Order in Chaos: A Novel Data Augmentation Method for Time Series in Contrastive Learning
- CHI (T1)HandyCast: Phone-based Bimanual Input for Virtual Reality in Mobile and Space-Constrained Settings via Pose-and-Touch Transfer
- CHI (T1)HOOV: Hand Out-Of-View Tracking for Proprioceptive Interaction Using Inertial Sensing
- CHI (T1)InfinitePaint: Painting in Virtual Reality with Passive Haptics Using Wet Brushes and a Physical Proxy Canvas
- UIST (T1)InteractionAdapt: Interaction-driven Workspace Adaptation for Situated Virtual Reality Environments
- International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer InterfaceOn the Effect of Size and Contrast of the SSVEP Visual Stimuations on Classification Accuracy and User-Friendliness in Virtual Reality
- TAFFCPersonality Trait Recognition Based on Smartphone Typing Characteristics in the Wild
- UIST (T1)PressurePick: Muscle Tension Estimation for Guitar Players Using Unobtrusive Pressure Sensing
Where alumni went3 listed, 100% to industry
Industry 3Academia 0
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- Engineering Lead at robotics
- Meta
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