<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style> Research Engineer: Social Human-Robot Interactions Laboratory: LITIS, INSA Rouen Normandy, France Project: INCA (Natural Interactions with Artificial Companions) Duration: 13 months Summary: 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. 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. Profile: Computer Sciences / Robotics Engineer <ul> <li> Good level in programming (ROS, Python, possibly Java) </li> <li> Strong knowledge in robotics </li> <li> 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. </li> </ul> Duration and remuneration: approximately 13 months, 2482euros/month (gross salary) Application should be sent to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr">alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr</a> <ul> <li> Curriculum vitae </li> <li> Cover letter </li> <li> Recommendation letters </li> <li> Recently graduated students: transcripts </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>