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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Research
Engineer</b>: Social Human-Robot Interactions</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Laboratory</b>:
LITIS, INSA Rouen Normandy, France</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Project</b>:
INCA (Natural Interactions with Artificial Companions)</font></font></p>
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size="3"><b>Duration</b>:
13 months</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Summary</b>:</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">The
emergence of interactive robots and connected objects has lead
to the
appearance of symbiotic systems made up of human users,
virtual
agents and robots in social interactions. However, two major
scientific difficulties are unsolved yet: on the one hand, the
recognition of human activity remains inaccurate, both at the
operational level (location, mapping and identification of
objects
and users) and cognitive (recognition and tracking of users’
intentions) and, on the other hand, interaction involves
different
modalities that must be adapted according to the context, the
user
and the situation. The INCA project aims at developing
artificial
companions (interactive robots and virtual agents) with a
particular
focus on social interactions. Our goal is to develop new
models and
algorithms for intelligent companions capable of (1)
perceiving and
representing an environment (real, virtual or mixed)
consisting of
objects, robots and users; (2) interacting with users in a
natural
way to assess their needs, preferences, and engagement; (3)
learning
models of user behavior and (4) generating semantically
adequate and
socially appropriate responses.</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">The
hired research engineer will work closely with the INCA
research
staff (permanent, PhD and post-doctoral members) and other
project
partners. This will mainly involve administering the project's
Pepper
robots, developing the necessary tools, integrating the
algorithms
developed with the AgentSlang platform
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agentslang.github.io/">https://agentslang.github.io/</a>) and join the team created to
participate in the Robocup 2020 in Bordeaux, @Home league.</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Profile</b>:
Computer Sciences / Robotics Engineer</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Good level in programming
(ROS, Python, possibly Java)</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Strong knowledge in
robotics</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Experiences in some of
the following areas would be a plus (non-exhaustive list):
machine learning, human-machine social interactions, scene
perception, spatio-temporal and semantic representation,
natural language dialogue.</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><b>Duration
and remuneration</b>: approximately 13 months,
2482euros/month (gross
salary)</font></font></p>
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<font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Application
should be sent to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr">alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr</a></font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Curriculum vitae</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Cover letter</font></font></p>
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align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Recommendation letters</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Recently graduated
students: transcripts</font></font></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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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