<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Please find below an offer for an internship for a master student. </div><div>Please contact me if you have any questions, or send it to students who might be interested. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Best regards, </div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Claude MARTIN</div><div>Université Paris-Saclay</div><div>LISN</div><div><br></div><div>*****************************************</div><div>Internship for a master student: <br>Interactive and Explainable Virtual Coach for Behavior Change<br></div><div><div>*****************************************</div><div></div><div><br></div>------------------<br>TITLE<br>------------------<br><br> Interactive and Explainable Virtual Coach for Behavior Change<br><br>------------------<br>SUPERVISOR<br>------------------<br><br>Prof. Jean-Claude MARTIN<br><a href="mailto:MARTIN@LIMSI.FR">MARTIN@LIMSI.FR</a> <br><br>------------------<br>HOSTING LAB<br>------------------<br><br>LISN / LIMSI, Orsay, France <br>(45mn train from Paris)<br><br>------------------<br>DATES<br>------------------<br><br>Duration: 4 to 6 months<br>Beginning: From March 2021 <br>End: Before end of September 2021<br>*Internship can be done fully remotely if needed*<br><br>------------------<br>RESEARCH CONTEXT<br>------------------<br><br>In order to support an efficient and friendly experience, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) needs to be adapted and personalised to each user. </div><div>This is even more true in eHealth interventions making use of virtual coaches for motivating users for behavior change (eg. doing more physical activity). <br><br>The goal of the internship is to define and validate a methodology for designing such a virtual agent representing a coach which needs to adapt on-line to the user (e.g. during the interactive sessions, not only before or after) in order to support behavior change. <br><br>The virtual coach will rely not on the user's states (motivation, emotions) and traits (motivation profile, personality, culture), </div><div>but also on its current performance and behaviors to dynamically select and display appropriate multimodal behaviors </div><div>and communication strategies during the coaching sessions. </div><div><br></div><div>In order to support motivating users in the long term and elicit trust, </div><div>such a coach needs to be able to provide *explanations* about its behaviors and its recommendations. <br></div><div><br>------------------<br>TASKS<br>------------------<br><br>- propose a design framework for personalised adaptive virtual agents for behavior change which support explainability<br>- survey existing corpora of dyadic interactions and motivational interviewing between coaches and participants + collect a new multimodal video corpus<br>- propose a proper set of concepts for describing behavior change strategies observable in the literature and in the corpus (eg an ontology)<br>- derive specifications for the interactive coach from the corpus and the ontology of behavior change concepts<br>- publications and meetings with international partners<br><br>------------------<br>SALARY<br>------------------<br><br>600 Euros per month<br><br>------------------<br>APPLICATION<br>------------------<br><br>Send detailed CV, grades from the last 3 years, previous projects/internship reports or articles to<br><a href="mailto:MARTIN@LIMSI.FR">MARTIN@LIMSI.FR</a> <br>Expected profile: Master in HCI / Cognitive Science / Sport Psychology<br>More details: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgHFPxxNuh5KuAMUHl48fldL1sLbBJp8-Am5ytkqtOc/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgHFPxxNuh5KuAMUHl48fldL1sLbBJp8-Am5ytkqtOc/edit?usp=sharing</a><br><br>------------------<br>REFERENCES<br>------------------<br><br><br>Aldenaini, N., Orji, R., & Sampalli, S. 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Retrieved from <a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02185634">https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02185634</a><br><br><br><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div style="font-size:small">**********************************************<br>Jean-Claude MARTIN<br><br>Professor of Computer Science at Paris-South 11 University - IUT d'Orsay<br>Head of the Group "Cognition, Perception and Usability" at LIMSI-CNRS<br><a href="http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/</a></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><div>Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI): </div><div>IF(2018) = 2.020<br><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/12193</a></div><div></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">LIMSI<br>Rue John von Neumann<br>Campus Universitaire d'Orsay<br>Bât 508<br>91405 Orsay cedex<br>FRANCE</div><div style="font-size:small"><br>Tel.: +33 1 69 15 81 15 - Fax: +33 1 6985 8088<br>Email: <a href="mailto:MARTIN@LIMSI.FR" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">MARTIN@LIMSI.FR</a><br><br><div>1er janvier 2021 : Lancement du Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), issu des 7 groupes de recherche du LIMSI et de 7 équipes de recherche du LRI</div><div><br></div><div>January 1, 2021. Inauguration of LISN, the interdisciplinary computer science laboratory uniting 14 research groups, 7 from LIMSI and 7 from LRI</div><div><br></div>**********************************************</div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>