PhD position proposal, University of Paris Sud, France.

(Deadline to apply: May 22th, 2015, midnight CET)

SensoriMotor interface for Collaborative Virtual Environments based on heterogeneous interactive devices: application to industrial design

VENISE group, LIMSI-CNRS - http://www.limsi.fr/venise &

ExSitu team, LRI/INRIA Saclay - http://www.inria.fr/equipes/ex-situ

University of Paris Sud, France.

Supervisor: patrick.bourdot@limsi.fr (VENISE group)

Co-advisor: cedric.fleury@lri.fr (ExSitu team)

Keywords:      Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE), Virtual Reality (VR), Sensorimotor Interface, Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Abstract: In the research field of Collaborative Virtual Environments, the scientific challenge of this PhD is to develop a sensorimotor interface model which has a versatility potential to support heterogeneous interactive devices ranging from Wall-sized Displays up to Immersive Virtual Reality rooms. This research is motivated by the increasing need, in some industrial domains, for efficient collaborative interactions on large visualization and/or immersive systems, to perform scale-one activities on virtual mock-ups of the projects. These new working methods improve the productivity of product design, but the gesture interaction with 3D content in such systems often lack of accuracy. This PhD work aims to study Pseudo-Haptic and Haptic approaches to solve this problem. The challenge is to create a sensorimotor interface model based on these approaches, which will have the adaptability to support the various technologies available on different interconnected devices, for a set of collaborative tasks. This PhD will be carried out in the context of the Equipex DIGISCOPE project, a high-performance telepresence network for remote collaboration, located on Paris-Saclay campus and supported by the French National Research Agency.


More details: http://www.limsi.fr/venise/positions/VENISE_&_ExSitu_PhD-position_2015_PB&CF.pdf