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## Profile

Dries Cardinaels is a PhD student at UHasselt's Digital Future Lab. His research examines how humans interact with robots from a distance through teleoperation, with a focus on how communication delay affects operator awareness, control, and decision making, and how interface design can help people remain effective under those conditions.

## Curriculum vitae

The [CV homepage](https://driescardinaels.be/) contains the current profile and the following sections:

- Contact information and professional profiles
- Biography
- Publications
- Education
- Research experience
- Teaching experience
- Thesis advising
- Academic service
- Projects
- Presentations
- Reviewing experience
- Co-authors

The [downloadable CV PDF](https://driescardinaels.be/assets/documents/cv-dries-cardinaels.pdf) provides a print-oriented version of the curriculum vitae. It is generated from the CV homepage itself, so both carry the same content.

Every publication on the CV that has a paper page on this site offers its BibTeX entry directly, behind the Cite label in the publication list.

## Research focus

The research profile covers human–robot interaction, telerobotics, delayed teleoperation, operator awareness, control and decision making, visualisation, interface design, and reproducible experimental infrastructure.

The site hosts pages for the following research projects and publications:

- [UNITE](https://docs.driescardinaels.be/): A modular testbed for reproducible delayed space teleoperation, published at SpaceCHI 2026 (in press). The testbed itself is open source and documented on a separate site.
- [Every Move You Make](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/every-move-you-make/): Visualising near-future motion under delay for telerobotics.
- [DELEGACT](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/delegact/): Multimodal language models for task-level human–cobot planning in industrial assembly.
- [Challenges and Opportunities for Delay-Invariant Telerobotic Interactions](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/challenges-and-opportunities/): Scoping work on delayed telerobotic interaction.
- [SOLDAR](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/soldar/): Collaborative-robot and augmented-reality support for low-volume PCB prototyping.
- [AntHand](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/anthand/): Precise telerobotic control using scaled objects in virtual environments.
- [GHOST](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/ghost/): Research on delayed or remote robotic interaction.
- [Probabilistic interaction research](https://driescardinaels.be/papers/probabilistic/): Research materials and results for probabilistic telerobotic interaction.

## Projects

- [Ongevallen in Kaart](https://infovis.driescardinaels.be/): An interactive dashboard and map of Belgian traffic accidents. It started as a course project for the Information Visualization course at UHasselt and was rebuilt in 2026 with data through 2025 and a national map of every geolocated accident from 2017–2024. Yearly accident and victim statistics filter by day, weekday, or hour from the charts; two years can be compared side by side; the map switches between a density heatmap and individual points filtered by severity, weather, and road user. Built with open data from Statbel.

## Tools

- [BibTeX Cleaner](https://driescardinaels.be/tools/bibtex-cleaner.html): A browser tool that checks a .bib file against a LaTeX or Overleaf project. It flags missing, unused, redundant and misused references and exports a cleaned .bib with the unused entries removed. All processing happens locally in the browser.

## UNITE documentation

The [UNITE documentation site](https://docs.driescardinaels.be/) is a separate site for an open-source, modular Unity testbed for building and reproducing delayed teleoperation studies.

## Contact and identifiers

- Email: [dries.cardinaels@uhasselt.be](mailto:dries.cardinaels@uhasselt.be)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dries-cardinaels/)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=BWXL8pQAAAAJ&hl=nl)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1255-0838)