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Contact

damien.massonumontreal.ca
Université de Montréal,
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt,
Office 2349

Bio

2024-now Asst Prof U. Montréal
2023-2024 Postdoc U. Toronto
2019-2023 PhD U. Waterloo
2016-2018 MSc U. Lille
Bonjour, I am Damien 👋. I am an Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the Université de Montréal, where I co-lead the Montréal HCI group. I am also an associate academic member of Mila and an IVADO professor.
I am looking for talented students (PhD, master's, or undergraduate) to join my group. If you are interested, please read this before emailing me.
My current research interests include (but are not limited to):
Interacting with AI Creativity Support Information Visualization

Latest News

Jun 2025
🗣 Presenting "Beyond Prompts" at SEMLA
May 2025
🗣 Presenting Textoshop at CHI'25 in Yokohama
Apr 2025
🗣 Presenting "Interacting with AI Beyond Text" at Adobe Research
Apr 2025
🗣 Presenting "Textoshop" at the Mila HCAI reading group
Apr 2025
🏅 Textoshop received a honorable mention award at CHI'25!
Feb 2025
🗣 Presenting on "Dynamic UI" at the reading group on dynamic abstractions
Nov 2024
🗣 Presenting on "Interacting with AI beyond text" at the Workshop on AI & DH of the CRIHN

International Publications

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations of Stories
Damien Masson, Zixin Zhao, Fanny Chevalier
UIST '25
Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing
Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer's Needs
CHI '25
DirectGPT: A Direct Manipulation Interface to Interact with Large Language Models
Statslator: Interactive Translation of NHST and Estimation Statistics Reporting Styles in Scientific Documents
UIST '23
Charagraph: Interactive Generation of Charts for Realtime Annotation of Data-Rich Paragraphs
CHI '23
ChartDetective: Easy and Accurate Interactive Data Extraction from Complex Vector Charts
Supercharging Trial-and-Error for Learning Complex Software Applications
CHI '22
Relevance and Applicability of Hardware-Independent Pointing Transfer Functions
UIST '21
Chameleon: Bringing Interactivity to Static Digital Documents
CHI '20
Design and evaluation of braced touch for touchscreen input stabilisation
Andy Cockburn, Damien Masson, Carl Gutwin, Philippe Palanque, Alix Goguey, Marcus Yung, Christine Gris, Catherine Trask
IJHCS '19
WhichFingers: Identifying Fingers on Touch Surfaces and Keyboards Using Vibration Sensors
UIST '17

National Publications

Holding Patterns: Detecting Handedness with a Moving Smartphone at Pickup
IHM '19
Measuring the Effect of Public vs Private Context on the Kinematics of Smartphone Motion Gestures
Edward Lank, Paul Meyer, Damien Masson, Hanae Rateau
IHM '19

Demos

Bringing Interactivity to Research Papers and Presentations with Chameleon

PhD Thesis

Transforming the Reading Experience of Scientific Documents with Polymorphism
Damien Masson
University of Waterloo '23 Prix AFIHM Bill Buxton Dissertation Award