Research Projects

Current projects

2022- 2025 : National French Project (ANR) – REVITALISE – viRtual bEhaVioral skIlls TrAining for pubLIc SpEaking – Principal Investigator
Partners : Télécom Paris, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N), Institut des Sciences du Mouvements (ISM), Centre de Réalité Virtuelle Méditerranée (CRVM) , Umanis Company.
Since 2021 : TRUENESS project : A Virtual Reality Forum Theatre for Discrimination Awaraness – Principal Investigator
Partners: Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Institut des Sciences du Mouvements (ISM), Centre de Réalité Virtuelle Méditerranée (CRVM)
This project has received financial support from the CNRS through the MITI interdisciplinary programs and the “appel unique” programs.

2020 – 2024 – A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) – European Project H2020 – COnversational BRAin – Scientific leader LIS
14 partners on 10 countries
2019 – 2022 – National French Project (ANR) – CoPains: Cognitive Planning in Persuasive Multimodal Communication – Scientific leader LIS
Partners: 4 research labs (IRIT, LIMSI, LIS et LPL) and 1 company (Davi)
Since 2022 – CNRS Project UNIT: Multimodal Evaluation of NLP models with a robot talking head – Co-scientific leader LIS
TALEP Team project
Since 2018 – Interdisciplinary project CNRS-ILCB “BRAIN-IHM: Bases cérébrales de l’Interaction Humain-Machine” – Co-direction
Partners: 3 research labs from Aix Marseille University (LIS, LPL and LNC)
2017- 2025 – Co-direction of the interdisciplinary research axis « Conversations and Artificial Agents » de l’Institut convergence ILCB (Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain)

2015 – 2019 – National French Project (ANR) : ACORFORMED: Virtual Reality for Training Doctors to Break Bad News – Co-Principal Investigator
Partners: 4 research labs (LIS, LPL, CRVM, Télécom Paris), 1 company (Immersion), 2 hospitals (IPC and CHU Angers)
2018-2021 – International project STIC-AMSUD “EMPATIA: EMotional Pedagogical Agents for Training, Instruction and learning” – Co-direction
Partners: Universidad Nacional de San Juan – UNSJ (Argentina), Université de la Vallée du Rio dos Sinos (Brazil – Principal Investigator)
2018-2021 – Interdisciplinary project A*MIDEX (projet d’initiative d’excellence Aix-Marseille Université) PhysSocial : Physiologie des Interactions Sociales avec des Agents Naturels et Artificiels – Co-direction
Partners: 3 research labs from Aix Marseille University (INT, LIS and LPL)
2019 – International project “AURORA: French-Norwegian Research Effort on Applied Dialogue Modelling”
Partners: 2 research labs from Aix Marseille University (LIS and LPL), Oslo University and the Norwegian Computing Center