FEDER - INSA - INCA
Kohesio
INSTITUT NATIO SCIENCES APPLIQUEES ROUEN
The explosion in the number of connected objects, assistant robots and intuitive and natural human-machine interfaces has enabled an increasing democratization of cyber-physical and socio-technical systems. These are systems made up of human users, robots and artificial agents in social interactions. If the democratization of these tools is a major element for new daily services, its diffusion comes up against two main obstacles: on the one hand, the recognition of human activity remains imprecise, both at the operational level (location, mapping, identification of objects and users) and cognitive (recognition and intention tracking). On the other hand, the interaction passes through different vectors which must be adapted depending on the context (robotics, mixed reality, virtual reality), the user and the current task situation. The scientific obstacles questioned by the INCA project are divided into two distinct applications and a transversal problem. The first concerns the design and evaluation of virtual and mixed environments for learning, to assess the impact of conversational agents within immersive and interactive simulations. The second axis questions issues specific to robotics: the perception of the environment and the representation of spatio-temporal knowledge for social interaction and navigation. Finally, the problem of managing mixed-initiative social dialogues with users is common to these two applications. Thus, the INCA project aims to perceive and represent an environment in order to reason about it, to interact in a natural and social way with users and to learn a user model in order to adapt the interactive behavior of agents.
Smarter Europe / Research and innovation / Research and innovation infrastructure (public)