Zdeněk Míkovec

Courses

• Implementation of User Interfaces

  Student who successfully passed the course get overview about principles and patterns of user interface (UI) implementation. Additionally, the students will understand, how the UI implementation fits into the process of application development and how he/she will cooperate with other members of development…

  https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/course/B4B39IUR
  

• Návrh uživatelského rozhraní

  Studenti se v rámci předmětu seznámí hlouběji s teoretickými základy návrhu a vyhodnocování uživatelských rozhraní. Bude prezentováno široké spektrum formálních metod popisu uživatelských rozhraní a modelů uživatele. Zvládnutím těchto prostředků získají studenti základ jak pro praktické činnosti při návrhu a…

  https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/B4M39NUR
  

 

Selected publications

• Landmark-enhanced route itineraries for navigation of blind pedestrians in urban environment

  Jan Balata, Zdeněk Míkovec, Pavel Slavík

  Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 12(3):181-198, 2018.
  

• Navigation Problems in Blind-to-Blind Pedestrians Tele-assistance Navigation

  Jan Balata, Zdeněk Míkovec, Ivo Malý

  Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015, pp. 89-109, 2015.
  

• KoalaPhone: TouchScreen Mobile Phone UI for Active Seniors

  Jan Balata, Zdeněk Míkovec, Tomáš Slavíček

  Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 9(4):263-273, 2015.
  

• On the Selection of 2D Objects Using External Labeling

  Jan Balata, Ladislav Čmolík, Zdeněk Míkovec

  Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2255-2258, 2014.
  

• Collaborative Navigation of Visually Impaired

  Jan Balata, Jakub Franc, Zdeněk Míkovec, Pavel Slavík

  Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 8(2):175-185, 2014.
  

• An Evaluation Tool for Research of User Behavior in a Realistic Mobile Environment

  Ivo Malý, Zdeněk Míkovec, Ing. Jan Vystrčil, Jakub Franc, Pavel Slavík

  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 17(1):3-14, 2013.
  

• Beyond traditional interaction in a mobile environment: New approach to 3D scene rendering

  Zdeněk Míkovec, Ladislav Čmolík, Jiří Kopsa, Pavel Slavík

  Computers & Graphics 30(5):714-726, 2006.
  

Selected theses

• Conversational Interface for Secondary Tasks While Driving a Car

  Lukáš Chvátal, Master thesis, 2020

  This thesis deals with interaction with car infotainment using a conversational interface with respect to the target group of older drivers. The main objective of this work is to analyse the…

  

• Conversational assistant for smart home

  Rudolf Talácko, Master thesis, 2020

  The thesis deals with the design of a conversation assistant for a smart household. It is focused on the target group of visually impaired people and older adults. A prototype of a conversation…

  

• Web application for project planning of special effects and post-production company

  Ondřej Chvíla, Master thesis, 2018

  The purpose of the thesis is to create a prototype of a web application that allows planning and visualization of tasks on particular projects for the trick and post-production company. Using a…

  

• Suppressing distractors from driver's field of view

  Tomáš Kolařík, Master thesis, 2018

  First, I review the distraction caused by roadside advertisement. In the work, I focus on billboards. I name most common billboard types and the distraction they cause. Then, I create two methods to…

  

• WheelGo - Route planning for wheelchair users

  Martin Nuc, Master thesis, 2014

  This work deals with a problem of navigation for people in wheelchair using available map data and crowdsourcing. It describes typical difficulties of wheelchair users during the transportation and…

  

• Automatic generation of route description for visually impaired users

  Jakub Bokšanský, Master thesis, 2013

  This work is dedicated to designing a system for generating route descriptions for visually impaired people. Complete system for creating such descriptions is designed and implemented. Work starts by…

  

• Educational Application for Preschool Children

  Dagmar Tkadlecová, Master thesis, 2012

  Children are now living in a world that is no longer filled with real-life experience only: they can see fairies and monsters coming to life in modern rendered movies, and play with complicated…

  

• Mobile Application for Group Expenses and Its Deployment

  David Vávra, Master thesis, 2012

  This thesis is about project Settle Up - a mobile application for organizing group expenses. It contains a description of Android implementation, but the main focus is on activity after the release…

  

• System supporting tourism of visually impaired people

  Jan Balata, Master thesis, 2011

  The theoretical part of this thesis analyses the needs and problems of visually impaired tourists, proposes a software solution of a system designed to support the visually impaired in tourism. It…

  

• UI of the interaction model for developers

  Ondřej Havelka, Bachelor thesis, 2011

  This thesis deals with design (and implementation) of a user interface of the interaction model for developers. The interaction model will be used by developers to design accessible applications. The…

  

• Reproduction of 2D graphic piece of work for visually imaired users in mobile environment

  Miloslav Rejha, Bachelor thesis, 2009

  Goal of this project was to choose a suitable software platform for blind or heavily visually impaired users, which allows them to manipulate 2D piece of graphic work in mobile environment. A…