Internship Master2 Research + PhD thesis Funding in Computer Science
Offre de stage de Master 2 Recherche + financement de thèse en informatique
TITLE
Virtual Training and Simulation for Crisis and Team Management under Stress
Entraînement Virtuel et Simulation pour la Gestion d'Equipe en Situation de Stress
LABORATORY
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (accessible by RER train, around 45 mn South of Paris)
CONTEXT
Affective Computing is a recent field of research grown out of MIT Media Lab which defines computational models for recognising, reasoning on and expressing emotions in virtual environments (Picard 1997). Environments for emergency virtual training are used more and more frequently but present still several limitations regarding the consideration of team management and social interactions between medical rescuers under stressful conditions (e.g. focus of attention, dealing with multiple constraints, …) (Hsu et al. 2013).
This internship (and the corresponding PhD funding) will be held in the context of the ANR VICTEAMS (Virtual Characters for team Training: Emotional, Adaptive, Motivated and Social) project which started in Novembre 2014 for a duration of 4 years. This project aims at designing computational models for virtual environments featuring virtual characters that are endowed with emotion, social and cognitive capabilities for training rescuer teams.
RESEARCH GOAL
The goal of this internship is to design a computational interactive model that is relevant for training rescuers to cope with the different stressful events occurring during an emergency situation while interacting with virtual characters representing different roles (victims, nurses, chief of operations, red cross ...).
The model will consider integrating existing model developped at LIMSI such as the CPM model of emotions (Courgeon et al. 2013) and the PERSEED model of personality (Faur et al. 2014), but other can also be considered and proposed by the candidate.
The application will focus on a triage task and the associated interactions between parties involved in the emergency.
TASKS
•state of the art (affective computing, virtual reality training, serious game, team modeling, social interactions)
•analyse the minutes, sample photos and videos we collected during the 8 firefighters real-life training sessions that we attended in 2013 and 2014
•identify relevant properties of the different roles involved in an emergency situation and the events eliciting stress
•define a conceptual model featuring relevant aspects of emotion and personality for virtual characters representing the different roles
•design and implement the model on a firefighters training scenario above an already existing 3D prototype (based on Blender & Unity)
•evaluate the implemented system
SUPERVISORS AND CONTACTS
Jean-Claude MARTIN, Professor of Computer Science, Head of the CPU group
MARTIN@LIMSI.FR
http://perso.limsi.fr/wiki/doku.php/martin/accueil
Virginie DEMULIER, Associate Professor in Psychology
virginie.demulier@limsi.fr
www.limsi.fr/Individu/demulier
DATES
March - August 2015
INTERNSHIP FUNDING
480 Euros net per month (+ reimbursement of half of transportation costs)
PhD FUNDING
We have a funding for a 3 years PhD funded by the ANR VICTEAMS project that will start in Septembre 2015.
BACKGROUND and SKILLS
Master in Computer Science, Master in Cognitive Science, Engineer
French or English Speaking
APPLICATION
Send to contacts above your CV, ranks and grades of Master 1&2 (or equivalent) + sample reports that you already wrote for previous projects / internships.
REFERENCES
•Courgeon, M., C. Clavel (2013) MARC: a Framework that Features Emotion Models for Facial Animation during Human-Computer Interaction, in: Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces April 2013, (impact factor : 0.833)
•Dale S. Vincent, Andrei Sherstyuk, Lawrence Burgess, Kathleen K. Connolly. Teaching Mass Casualty Triage Skills Using Immersive Three-dimensional Virtual Reality. Journal Academic Emergency Medicine. Special Issue: Proceedings of The 2008 AEM Consensus Conference: The Science of Simulation in Healthcare: Defining and Developing Clinical Expertise Guest Editors:Amy Kaji, MD, PhD David C. Cone, MD, Volume 15, Issue 11, pages 1160–1165, November 2008 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00191.x/full
•Faur, C., C. Clavel, S. Pesty and J.C. Martin (2013). PERSEED: a Self based Model of Personality for Virtual Agents Inspired by Sociocognitive Theories. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII'2013). Geneva, Switzerland.
•Hsu EB, Li Y, Bayram JD, Levinson D, Yang S, Monahan C. (2013) State of Virtual Reality Based Disaster Preparedness and Response Training. PLOS Currents Disasters. doi:10.1371/currents.dis.1ea2b2e71237d5337fa53982a38b2aff. http://currents.plos.org/disasters/article/stateofvirtualrealityvrbased…
•Lazarus RS, Folkman S. Stress, appraisal, and coping. Springer; New York:1984
•Picard R.W. (1997), "Affective Computing," MIT Press, Cambridge
Web
•Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing http://emotion-research.net/
•Software XVR http://www.xvrsim.com
•Projet STRESS Simulation-based Training of Resilience in Emergencies and Stressful Situations http://stress.few.vu.nl/
•Project ANR VICTEAMS http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/anr-funded-project/?tx_lwms…