People
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
She is Associate Professor at LINEACT CESI, France. Her research interests include social behaviour modelling by applying social signal processing to human-human and human-agent interaction, with a focus on immersive environments and the Proteus effect.
She is a researcher at CasaPaganini InfoMus, University of Genoa and licensed psychologist. She works on event segmentation, event structure perception and food-related social interaction.
Thomas Janssoone
He works at Enchanted Tools, a new start-up, where he designs an end-to-end interaction pipeline for a new robot to make it able to naturally interact in real environments. He did his Ph.D. at Sorbonne University and Telecom ParisTech on the study of recognition and synthesis of interpersonal stances with virtual agents.
Geoffrey Gorisse
Geoffrey is Associate Professor and virtual reality researcher at Arts et Métiers Insitute of Technology, France. His current investigations focus on virtual characters (avatars and agents). He studies the sense of embodiment and social presence, as well as the way avatars impact user behaviour in immersive virtual environments.
Pierre Raimbaud
He is Associate Professor at ENISE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France. His research interests are in virtual reality user interactions and behaviours. Understanding human behaviour in virtual reality, from individual and social point of views, is a key concern for him.
She is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Twente, currently spending an academic year in Princeton University as visiting researcher. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Sense of Emboodiment (SoE) and teleoperation.
Anna Martin
She is a Ph.D. student at CESI LINEACT, France. Her research focuses on the Proteus effect, which describes how the appearance of avatars in virtual environments can shape users’ behaviors.
Silvia Ferrando
She is a Ph.D. student at CasaPaganini InfoMus, University of Genoa. Her research focuses on learning technologies, in particular with children as users.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alafate Abulimiti, Inria, France
Thomas Beelen, University of Twente, The Nethderlands
Pierre Bondesan, Arts et Métiers Insitute of Technology, France
Fabien Boucaud, CNRS-ISIR, France
Stéphanie Buisine, LINEACT CESI, France
Olivier Christmann, Arts et Métiers Insitute of Technology, France
Nicola Corbellini, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy
Florian Dufresne, Arts et Métiers Insitute of Technology, France
Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College, Ireland
Jan Kolkmeier, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Biswesh Mohapatra, Inria & ENS, France
Guillaume Moreau, IMT Atlantique, France
Elisa Prati, Unimore, Italy
Brian Ravenet, LISN-CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, France
Janet Wessler, DFKI, Germany
Katja Zibrek, Inria, France
Tom Ziemke, Linköping University, Sweden