Publications | Bob-Antoine Jerry Ménélas

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Kamkuimo, S. A., Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2021). A narrative review of virtual reality applications for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Applied Sciences, 11(15), 6683
2. Messaoudi, M. D., Menelas, B. A. J., & Mcheick, H. (2020). Autonomous smart white cane navigation system for indoor usage. Technologies, 8(3), 37.
3. Chapwouo Tchakoute, L. D., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2020). Perception of a haptic stimulus presented under the foot under workload. Sensors, 20(8), 2421.
4. Kamkuimo, A. S., Fossaert, M., Girad, B., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2018). Action-Centered Exposure Therapy (ACET): A New Approach to the Use of Virtual Reality to the Care of People with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, accepted in Behavioral Sciences.
5. Tchakouté, L. D. C., Tremblay, L., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2018). Response Time to a Vibrotactile Stimulus Presented on the Foot at Rest and During Walking on Different Surfaces. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 18(7).
6. Tchakouté, L. D. C., Gagnon, D., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2018). Use of tactons to communicate a risk level through an enactive shoe. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 12(1), 41-53.
7. Ayena, J. C., Tremblay, L. E., Otis, M. J. D., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2017). Comparing auditory, visual and vibrotactile cues in individuals with Parkinson’s disease for reducing risk of falling over different types of soil. Somatosensory & motor research, 34(4), 226-234.
8. Menelas, B. A. J., Haidon, C., Ecrepont, A., & Girard, B. (2018). Use of virtual reality technologies as an Action-Cue Exposure Therapy for truck drivers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Entertainment Computing, 24, 1-9.
9. Menelas, B. A. J., & Benaoudia, R. S. (2017). Use of Haptics to Promote Learning Outcomes in Serious Games. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 1(4), 31. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2017
10. Thullier, F., Bouchard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2017). A Text-Independent Speaker Authentication System for Mobile Devices. Cryptography, 1(3), 16.. Cryptography 1.3 (2017): 16.
11. Otis, M. J. D., Ayena, J. C., Tremblay, L. E., Fortin, P. E., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2016).Use of an enactive insole for reducing the risk of falling on different types of soil using vibrotactile cueing for the elderly. PloS one, 11(9), e0162107.
12. Lavoie, B. A. J. Menelas. (2016). Design of a set of foot movements for a soccer game on a mobile phone. The Computer Games Journal, 5 (3-4), 131-148.
13. Ayena, J. C., Zaibi, H., Otis, M. J. D., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2016). Home-based risk of falling assessment test using a closed-loop balance model, IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, 24(12), 1351-1362.
14. Plantevin, V., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2014).Use of Ecological Gestures in Soccer Games Running on Mobile Devices. Int. Journal of Serious Games. 1 (4).
15. Menelas, B. A. J., Picinali, L., Bourdot, P., & Katz, B. F. (2014). Non-visual identification, localization, and selection of entities of interest in a 3D environment. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 8(3), 243-256.
16. Vézien, J. M., Ménélas, B., Nelson, J., Picinali, L., Bourdot, P., Ammi, M., … & Lusseyran, F. (2009).Multisensory VR exploration for computer fluid dynamics in the CoRSAIRe project. Virtual Reality, 13(4), 257.
17. Menelas, B., Ammi, M., Bourdot, P., & Richir, S. (2009). Survey on haptic rendering of data sets: Exploration of scalar and vector fields. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 6(9).

Patent
1. Otis, M. J. D., & Ménélas, B. A. J. Method to determine physical properties of the ground (2018). U.S. Patent Application No. 10/024,660.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
1. Haidon, C., Ecrepont, A., Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2017). A Driving Simulator Designed for the Care of Trucker Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In Serious Games and Edutainment Applications (pp. 411-431). Springer International Publishing.
2. Thullier, F., Bouchard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2016) Exploring mobile authentication mechanisms from PIN to Biometrics including the future trend. to appear In: (eds) Protecting Mobile Networks and Devices: Challenges and Solutions. CRC Press-Taylor & Francis
3. Menelas, B. A. J., & Otis, M. J. (2014). Toward an automatic system for training balance control over different types of soil. In Virtual, Augmented Reality and Serious Games for Healthcare 1(pp. 391-408). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
4. Menelas, B. A. J. (2014).Virtual Reality Technologies (Visual, Haptics, and Audio) in Large Datasets Analysis. Innovative Approaches of Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, 111-132.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
1. Ehret, F., Francillette, Y., Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2021, October). Action-Centered Exposure Therapy Using a Serious Game to Help Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder. In Joint International Conference on Serious Games (pp. 167-181).
2. Francillette, Y., Menelas, B. A., Bouchard, B., Bouchard, K., Gaboury, S., Kingsbury, C., et al. & Bernard, P. (2021, October). Development of a Mobile Exergame to Implement Brief Interventions to Increase Physical Activity for Adults with Schizophrenia. In Joint International Conference on Serious Games (pp. 185-199).
3. Saint-Louis, H., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2021, July). User Perceptions of Security and Privacy Risks with Contact Tracing Apps. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 125-139).
4. Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2020, December). Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Through Real-Time Physiological Feedback for a More Adapted Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy. In International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance (pp. 102-111).
5. Kamkuimo, S. A. K., Girard, B., Lapointe, P., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2020, November). Design and Implementation of a Serious Game to Make Construction Workers Aware of Exposure to Silica Dust in the Workplace. In Joint International Conference on Serious Games (pp. 85-98).
6. Tchakouté, L. D. C., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2018). Impact of Auditory Distractions on Haptic Messages Presented Under the Foot. In VISIGRAPP (2: HUCAPP) (pp. 55-63).
7. Tchakouté, L. D. C., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2018). Reaction Time to Vibrotactile Messages on Different Types of Soil. In VISIGRAPP (2: HUCAPP) (pp. 155-161).
8. Yahyaoui, H., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2017, April). Towards the development of a serious game that targets psychological stressors of the workplace. In Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on(pp. 1-6). IEEE.
9. Boukhris, S., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2017, July). Towards the Use of a Serious Game to Learn to Identify the Location of a 3D Sound in the Virtual Environment. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 35-44). Springer, Cham.
10. Ecrepont, A., Haidon, C., Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2016, May). A fully customizable truck-driving simulator for the care of people suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2016 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
11. Haidon, C., Ecrepont, A., Girard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2015, December). Gamification of a truck-driving simulator for the care of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance (pp. 312-322). Springer International Publishing.
12. Brahem, M. B., Ayena, J. C., Otis, M. J., & Ménélas, B. A. J. (2015, October). Risk of falling assessment on different types of ground using the instrumented TUG. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2015 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2372-2377). IEEE.
13. Ayena, J. C., Chapwouo T., Landry D., Otis, M. J., & Menelas, B. A. (2015, May). An efficient home-based risk of falling assessment test based on Smartphone and instrumented insole. In Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 416-421). IEEE.
14. Bourgault, N., Bouchard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2014, October). Effect of ecological gestures on the immersion of the player in a serious game. In International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications (pp. 21-33). Springer.
15. Gagnon, D., Otis, M. J. D., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2013, September). A serious game for the learning of vibrotactile feedbacks presented under the foot: How many and how fast?. In International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications (pp. 288-298). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
16. Vandewynckel, J., Otis, M. J., Bouchard, B., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2013, September). Training adapted to alzheimer patients for reducing daily activities errors and cognitive decline. In International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications (pp. 28-36). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
17. Menelas, B. A. J., & Otis, M. J. D. (2013, October). Use of foot for direct interactions with entities of a virtual environment displayed on a mobile device. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 3745-3750). IEEE.
18. Gagnon, D., Menelas, B. A. J., & Otis, M. J. (2013, October). Qualitative risk of falling assessment based on gait abnormalities. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 3966-3971). IEEE.
19. Ben Brahem, M., Ménélas, B. A. J., & Otis, M. J. D. (2013). Use of a 3DOF accelerometer for foot tracking and gesture recognition in mobile HCI. Procedia Computer Science, 19, 453-460.
20. Vandewynckel, J., Otis, M., Bouchard, B., & Bouzouane, A. (2013). Towards a real-time error detection within a smart home by using activity recognition with a shoe-mounted accelerometer. Procedia Computer Science, 19, 516-523.
21. Brassard, S., Otis, M. J. D., Poirier, A., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2012, November). Towards an automatic version of the berg balance scale test through a serious game. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare (p. 5). ACM.
22. Otis, M. J. D., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2012, October). Toward an augmented shoe for preventing falls related to physical conditions of the soil. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 3281-3285). IEEE.
23. Menelas, B. A. J., & Otis, M. J. D. (2012, October). Design of a serious game for learning vibrotactile messages. In Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), 2012 IEEE International Workshop on (pp. 124-129). IEEE.
24. Menelas, B. A., & Otis, M. (2012). A serious game for training balance control over different types of soil. Serious Games Development and Applications, 31-42.
25. Bouchard, B., Imbeault, F., Bouzouane, A., & Menelas, B. A. J. (2012, September). Developing serious games specifically adapted to people suffering from Alzheimer. In International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications(pp. 243-254). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
26. Menelas, B. A. J. (2013, March). Interactive analysis of cavity-flows in a virtual environment. In Proceedings of the 28th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (pp. 31-37). ACM.
27. Menelas, B., Hu, Y., Lahamy, H., & Lichti, D. (2011, October). Haptic and gesture-based interactions for manipulating geological datasets. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2051-2055). IEEE.
28. Menelas, B., Picinalli, L., Katz, B. F., & Bourdot, P. (2010, March). Audio haptic feedbacks for an acquisition task in a multi-target context. In 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), 2010 IEEE Symposium on (pp. 51-54). IEEE.
29. Ménélas, B., Picinali, L., Katz, B. F., Bourdot, P., & Ammi, M. (2009). Haptic audio guidance for target selection in a virtual environment. In Proc. 4th International Haptic and Auditory Interaction Design Workshop (HAID’09) (Vol. 2).
30. Picinali, L., Menelas, B., Katz, B. F., & Bourdot, P. (2010, May). Evaluation of a haptic/audio system for 3-d targeting tasks. In Audio Engineering Society Convention 128. Audio Engineering Society.
31. Menelas, B., Ammi, M., Pastur, L., & Bourdot, P. (2009, March). Haptical exploration of an unsteady flow. In EuroHaptics conference, 2009 and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. World Haptics 2009. Third Joint (pp. 232-237). IEEE.
32. Menelas, B., Ammi, M., & Bourdot, P. (2008). A flexible method for haptic rendering of isosurface from volumetric data. Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios, 687-693.
33. Menelas, B., Fauvet, N., Ammi, M., & Bourdot, P. (2008, February). Direct haptic rendering for large data sets with high gradients. In Proceedings of the 2008 Ambi-Sys workshop on Haptic user interfaces in ambient media systems (p. 2). ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).
34. Ménélas, B., Ammi, M., Bourdot, P., & Richir, S. (2008, April). A survey on haptic interaction techniques in the exploration of large and scientific data sets. In Proceedings of Virtual Reality International Conference, Laval, France (pp. 31-38).

Professor Université du Québec à Chicoutimi