[agents] Postdoc or Research engineer position in Human-Agent Multimodal Interaction

[alexandre.pauchet at insa-rouen.fr]

Laboratory: LITIS, INSA Rouen, Normandy University, France

Summary :
Communicating freely and naturally with a virtual character or a robot 
is one of the great challenges in human-machine interaction. In 
particular, the modelling of multi-modal and affective dialogic 
interactions is a multi-disciplinary scientific issue. This modelling is 
most often based on a corpus of multi-modal dialogues, whose analysis 
aims at identifying a set of recurrent behaviours (i.e. to provide a 
model).

The objective of the DAISI project, to which this recruitment is 
dedicated, is to learn and exploit multi-modal interaction models based 
on a set of dialogic patterns. These models are intended to be exploited 
within virtual characters or robots interacting with users on various 
application tasks (interactive narration, virtual or augmented 
environments for human learning, robotic interaction, etc.).

In this context, we are looking for a research engineer or a postdoc to 
join the project, on which are currently working 5 professors, a postdoc 
and 2 PhD students. The recruited person will join the LITIS MIND team.

Candidate Profile: Research Engineer or Postdoc in Human-Agent 
Multimodal Interaction

  * Human-Machine Interaction, virtual reality (Unity 3D, Unreal Engine)
    and / or robots, 3D animation skills or statistical learning would
    be a plus.
  * For engineer candidates: good knowledge of object programming
    languages, developments on Windows and Linux

Assigned tasks:

  * Design, deployment and validation of components for Human-Agent
    interaction (eye tracking, recognition of facial expressions,
    emotions, joint attention, speaking skills, etc.) according to the
    skills of the recruited candidate.
  * Organization and analysis of user experiments
  * Maintenance and development of the Agentslang platform dedicated to
    the deployment of conversational agents (https://agent.roboslang.org/)
  * Participation to the writing of scientific articles

Duration and remuneration: 14 months starting from 01/09/2018, 
approximately 2250 euros net.
Applications must be sent to: alexandre.pauchet at insa-rouen.fr

  * Curriculum vitae
  * Cover letter
  * Recommendation letters
  * Recently graduated students: academic transcripts


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Alexandre Pauchet
Associate Professor
INSA Rouen - ASI Department
LITIS Lab
Phone: +33(0)2 32 95 98 58
Web:http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/

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