[iva] Opening of a post-doc position

[Catherine PELACHAUD]

CATCH : Human-agent social collaboration(s) during collaborative tasks

Co-advisors:CatherinePelachaud(ISIR),DomitileLourdeaux(UTC),IndiraThouvenin(UTC)

The topic of the *post-doc* focuses on an interaction of a human user 
with one or more 
EmbodiedConversationalAgentstoperformacollaborativemanipulationtaskinavirtualenvironment. 
Theinteractiontakesplacethroughverbalandnon-verbalcommunicationaswellasbythemanipulation 
of objects in a virtual environment displayed in aCAVE.

The main topic of the post-doc is the consideration of the social 
attitudes of the agents, at the 
decision-makinglevel,theirimpactonthecognitiveandnonverbalbehaviorofthehuman,andthe 
qualityoftheinteractionasperceivedbythehuman.Theoriginalityofthepost-docistogivethe 
humanbeingastrongimmersioninthecollaboration(duringajointactionresolution)withACAs 
by the addition of non-verbal behaviors and by taking into account 
manipulation gesture of the human.

A social attitude is a combination of spontaneous assessment of a 
situation and of strategic 
intentions(Scherer,2005).Mostcomputationalmodelshaveintegratedthefirstaspectbysimulatingtheemotionalexpressionsofagents.Fewstudieshavelookedattheimpactofsocialattitudes 
ondecision-making.

However,previousworksdonotconsidersocialattitudesintheresolutionofcollaborativetasks.

The post-doc aims to attack several scientific challenges:

*Challenge 1: *What are the important / essential determinants in social 
attitudes for collaborative work? Which social interactions to transpose 
in virtual reality?

*Challenge 2: *How to operationalize these social attitudes in a 
decision-making engine to represent the non-verbal, verbal and 
decisional behaviors of embodied conversational agents?

*Challenge3:*Whattypesofadaptivefeedbackonsocialattitudeswillaffecthuman’sbehavior 
inanimmersivevirtualenvironment?

*Challenge4:*Howtodefineametrictomeasuretheimpactofsocialattitudesincollaborativeworkinvirtualreality?

*Skills*: Artificial Intelligence, embodied conversational agent, 
virtual reality

*Position*: post-doctoral

*Duration*: 1 year

*Host Organization*: ISIR, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris; 
Travel to Compiègne to work in the CAVE VR

*Documents to send*: CV, motivation letter, reference names

*Contact*:

—Catherine Pelachaud,catherine.pelachaud at isir.upmc.fr 
<mailto:catherine.pelachaud at isir.upmc.fr>

—Indira Thouvenin,indira.thouv 
<mailto:indira.thouvenin at utc.fr>enin at utc.fr <mailto:enin at utc.fr>

—Domitile Lourdeaux,domitile.lourdeaux at hds.utc.fr 
<mailto:domitile.lourdeaux at hds.utc.fr>

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