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<p><b>Title</b>: Natural Interactions in Mixed societies: towards
societies populated by humans and autonomous agents<b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>Supervisors</b>: Alexandre Pauchet et Julien Saunier<b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>Laboratory</b>: LITIS, Normandy University - INSA Rouen
Normandy <b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>Profile</b>: Master’s degree in Computer Sciences with
knowledge in<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, </li>
<li>Human-Machine Interaction (virtual reality, augmented reality
and/or robotics),</li>
<li>Machine-Learning, Data-Mining, NLP and more generally AI</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Application</b>: email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr">alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:julien.saunier@insa-rouen.fr">julien.saunier@insa-rouen.fr</a> <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Resume, </li>
<li>Transcripts,</li>
<li>Recommendation letters</li>
<li>Application letter</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Description</b>:</p>
<p>With the expansion of connected objects, ubiquitous computing,
and intuitive and natural human-machine interfaces, mixed
communities (software agents and humans in interaction) are
democratizing. Whereas there exists an abundant literature about
interaction with a single user, multiparty interactions remain
under investigated. This PhD aims to study the theoretical and
practical ways to allow interaction between [1..N] virtual agents
and [0..M] humans (with n+m> 2). The main idea is to define
multimodal and affective interaction protocols that enables
interaction to be similar between software agents (virtual agents
and/or robots) and between humans and agents, mixed communities.
The interaction protocols could be learned or extracted from
human-human or human-agents interaction.</p>
<p>A first approach to the subject would be to create a system
(funded on e.g. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agent.roboslang.org">https://agent.roboslang.org</a>) whose interaction
model focuses on the choice of the multimodal communicative acts
and not on the animations played by the agents (robots and virtual
agents). The agents will autonomously choose the corresponding
animations, depending on the dialogue states and the other
participants in the interaction (humans or agents).</p>
<p>Practical applications for this PhD are:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Multi-party dialogue protocols in tutoring virtual
environments,</li>
<li>Robotic assistance and companioning,</li>
<li>Emotional contagion in mixed communities,</li>
<li>Multi-party interactive narration.</li>
</ul>
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Alexandre Pauchet
Associate Professor HDR
INSA Rouen Normandie - ASI Department - LITIS Lab
Phone: +33(0)2 32 95 98 58
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/">http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/</a></pre>
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