I am a PhD Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen. I research within the field of human-computer interaction with a focus on virtual and augmented reality. I’m part of the BodyUI, a European Research Council project, working under the supervision of Kasper Hornbæk.

Recently I interned at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the Human Computer Interaction Lab headed by Patrick Baudisch.

Previously I’ve worked on prototyping and deploying industrial internet of things products for relayr. I received my MSc from the KTH Stockholm and TU Berlin. My MSc thesis, Interaction with Transparent Displays, was completed under the supervision of Jörg Müller, David Lindlbauer, and Robert Walter.

You can contact me via klemen.lilija[at]gmail.com.

Projects

Augmented Reality Views For Ocluded Interaction

We rely on our sight when manipulating objects. When objects are occluded, manipulation becomes difficult. Such occluded objects can be shown via augmented reality to re-enable visual guidance. However, it is unclear how to do so to best support object manipulation. We compare four views of occluded objects and their effect on performance and satisfaction across a set of everyday manipulation tasks of varying complexity. You can see the video presentation here: ACM CHI19 Glasgow.

Temporal Navigation of Spatial Recordings by Direct Manipulation

Spatial recordings allow viewers to move within them and freely choose their viewpoint. However, such recordings make it easy to miss events and difficult to follow moving objects when skipping through the recording. To alleviate these problems we present the Who Put That There system that allows users to navigate through time by directly manipulating objects in the scene. By selecting an object, the user can navigate to moments where the object changed. Users can also view the trajectories of objects that changed location and directly manipulate them to navigate. We evaluated the system with a set of sensemaking questions in a think-aloud study. You can see the video presentation here: ACM CHI20 Honolulu.

Wireless Sensor Network for Monitoring Trains

Design and development of wireless sensor network for monitoring the arrival and departure of trains. We deployed the network at one of the stations to test which sensors are wireless technologies are most appropriate for such monitoring. To hear more about the internet of things projects that I've worked on please email me as most of them are not to be shared with the public.

Shared Avatar VR Experience

In the everyday world, each of us has a single body. We are born, live and die while experiencing reality from within our body. However, in virtual reality, it does not have to be that way. Since we control this new reality, we can put one person into multiple bodies, or multiple persons into one body. During the Copenhagen Culture Night 2019, more than hundred people have experienced sharing an avatar with their partner and working together to roast marshmallows by a relaxing campfire in a forest. This application was made with Photo's networking framework and Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline.

PingPaintPunch VR @ Nordic Game Jam 2019

A mashup between Pong, painting and punching. This is a collaborative virtual reality game where two players try to replicate a pixel art by painting and punching a moving canvas. You can see the video here.

Correction of Avatar Hand Movements Supports Learning of a Motor Skill

Learning to move the hands in particular ways is essential in many training and leisure virtual reality applications, yet challenging. Existing techniques that support learning of motor movement in virtual reality rely on external cues such as arrows showing where to move or transparent hands showing the target movement. We propose a technique that corrects the avatar's hand movement. This embeds guidance in the user's avatar, instead of in external cues and minimizes visual distraction. Through two experiments, we found that such movement guidance improves the short-term retention of the practiced movement. The paper will be presented in March at the IEEE VR 2021 conference.

Publications

Correction of Avatar Hand Movements Supports Learning of a Motor Skill

Klemen Lilija, Søren Kyllingsbæk, Kasper Hornbæk, IEEE VR 2021

Poros: Configurable Proxies for Distant Interactions in VR

Henning Pohl, Klemen Lilija, Jess McIntosh, Kasper Hornbæk, ACM CHI 2021

Who Put That There? Temporal Navigation of Spatial Recordings by Direct Manipulation

Klemen Lilija, Henning Pohl, Kasper Hornbæk, ACM CHI 2020

Augmented Reality Views for Occluded Interaction

Klemen Lilija, Henning Pohl, Sebastian Boring, Kasper Hornbæk, ACM CHI 2019

Influence of Display Transparency on Background Awareness and Task Performance

David Lindlbauer, Klemen Lilija, Robert Walter, Jörg Müller, ACM CHI 2016

Contact

You can reach me via klemen.lilija[at]gmail.com