About
As a researcher, I am a part of the VGG research group at FIIT STU in Bratislava as an assistant professor focusing on human-computer interaction, human interaction with artificial intelligence, user experience and user behavioural analysis with a focus on eye-tracking, visual attention analysis and modelling. My research is focused mainly on the user interface design and user experience testing in the medical domain, namely digital histology and pathology, radiodiagnostics, and education in digital histopathology, as well as in other domains, such as the automotive industry. Currently, we actively collaborate on ongoing research with the Pathological Department of the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine developing methodologies and interfaces for data annotations and integration of artificial intelligence for quantitative analysis of heart transplant rejection, diagnostics and research related to primary ciliary dyskinesia, as well as with the Pathological department of the Medical faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava developing methodologies and interfaces for data annotations for a novel educational platform dedicated to digital histopathology. Moreover, we are currently working on the research-oriented user experience testing platform for a car simulator in collaboration with MxLab at FAD STU in Bratislava. Historically, I focused my research on applied eye-tracking in various research domains, visual attention analysis and modelling.
Research
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Digitalization in Histopathology, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, User Experience Testing, Eye-tracking, Visual Attention Analysis, Visual Attention Modelling
Publications
Laco, Miroslav, Polatsek, Patrik, Dekrét, Šimon, Benešová, Vanda, Baránková, Martina, Šoková, Bronislava, Koróniová, Jana, Gablíková, Mária. Effects of individual’s emotions on saliency and visual search. DOI 10.1007/s00371-020-01912-7. SIGN-UKO FS21-0041 In: The Visual Computer: international journal of computer graphics. Berlin: Springer Nature, 2021, vol. 37, nr. 6, pp. 1581-1592. ISSN 0178-2789. ISSN (online) 1432-2315. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00371-020-01912-7.pdf. http://ws.isiknowledge.com/cps/openurl/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rtf_id=info:ut/000658809800024. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85088793866&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=109641eba691bbd1a9f8650067cddae5&sot=b&sdt=b&sl=25&s=AUTHOR-NAME%28bar%c3%a1nkov%c3%a1%2cm*%29&relpos=0&citeCnt=0&searchTerm=.
Kveto?, Martin, Hudec, Lukáš, Vykopal, Ivan, Halinkovi?, Matej, Laco, Miroslav, Felš?ová, Andrea, Benešová, Vanda, Fabian, Ond?ej. Digital pathology in cardiac transplant diagnostics: from biopsies to algorithms. DOI 10.1016/j.carpath.2023.107587 In: Cardiovascular Pathology. New York: Elsevier. Elsevier Science, 2024, vol. 68, art. no. 107587, pp. 1-8. ISSN 1054-8807. ISSN (online) 1879-1336.
Váczlavová, Erika, Laco, Miroslav. Medical-Domain-Expert-Centered AI-Assisted Digitized Histopathology Education Tool. DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-64576-1 In: Human-Centered Software Engineering: Proceedings: 10th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2024. Laxenburg: International Federation for Information Processing, 2024, s. 281-290. ISBN 978-3-031-64575-4. ISBN (online) 978-3-031-64576-1. ISSN 0302-9743. ISSN (online) 1611-3349. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64576-1.
Ivanová, Lenka, Laco, Miroslav, Benešová, Vanda. Unsupervised clustering-based analysis of the measured eye-tracking data. In: Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2021). Washington: SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022, art. no. 1208408, pp. [1-8]. ISBN 9781510650442. ISBN (online) 9781510650459. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12084/1208408/Unsupervised-clustering-based-analysis-of-the-measured-eye-tracking-data/10.1117/12.2623035.short.
Polláková, Jana, Laco, Miroslav, Benešová, Vanda. Depth Perception Tendencies in the 3-D Environment of Virtual Reality. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-59006-2_13 In: Computer Vision and Graphics 2020: Proceedings. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 142-150.
Laco, Miroslav, Polatsek, Patrik, Benešová, Vanda. Depth Perception Tendencies on a Widescreen Display: An Experimental Study. In: Twelfth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2019). Bellingham: The International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2020, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781510636439. ISBN (online) 9781510636446.
Laco, Miroslav, Benešová, Vanda. Depth in the visual attention modelling from the egocentric perspective of view In: Proceedings SPIE 11041, Eleventh International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2018), 2018, Munich, Germany. Bellingham: SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2019, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781510627482.
Teaching
- Human-Computer Interaction (BA degree) – Lecturer
- Human-AI Interaction (MA degree) – Lecturer
- Team project (MA degree) – Seminar tutor
- Bachelor’s theses supervisor (10+ finished)
- Master’s theses supervisor (10+ finished)
- Dissertation theses consultant (2 ongoing)