<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Title: Natural Interactions in Mixed societies: towards societies populated by humans and autonomous agents Supervisors: Alexandre Pauchet et Julien Saunier Laboratory: LITIS, Normandy University - INSA Rouen Normandy Profile: Master’s degree in Computer Sciences with knowledge in <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> Application: 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> <ul> <li>Resume, </li> <li>Transcripts,</li> <li>Recommendation letters</li> <li>Application letter</li> </ul> Description: 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. 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). Practical applications for this PhD are: <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> <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> </body> </html>