Description du projet
Danse et fête en ligne incarnées par des personnages numériques
De nos jours, l’expérience de l’Internet étant le plus souvent passive, déconnectée et désincarnée, de nombreuses personnes sont isolées au lieu d’être réunies. Le projet CAROUSEL, financé par l’UE, entend surmonter l’isolement des utilisateurs en ligne en leur permettant de danser et de faire la fête ensemble, même s’ils sont physiquement séparés. Grâce à des combinaisons imaginatives d’intelligence artificielle et de technologies d’interaction immersives, notamment la création de personnages numériques réalistes, CAROUSEL permettra aux internautes de ressentir la présence, le toucher et le mouvement de l’autre, en dansant ensemble. Ces développements contribueront à surmonter l’isolement et la solitude et auront des effets positifs sur la santé, le travail et le bien-être des personnes. De plus, ces avancées jetteront les bases de formes de communication et d’expression en ligne qui dépassent pour l’instant l’imagination.
Objectif
The uniqueness of the CAROUSEL+ value proposition resides in its capacity to empower meaningful visceral group social interaction to tangibly share imagination and physical movement in virtual and hybrid reality settings beyond the existing digital communication technology such as massive online game environments, peer-to-peer connections and social media networks. CAROUSEL+ technology will allow people, in small or larger groups, to feel good and have fun together. CAROUSEL+ will pave the way for the emergence of social- physical behaviour of digital characters by better understanding human body-language and being capable to interact autonomously with a group of people. The project will lay the new technical, and scientific, foundation for social and physical real-world AI by inventing, examining, simulating, developing, testing and validating human-digital interaction scenarios. The dream of the project is to create a sustainable innovation ecosystem of young talents around a new research path to design AI enabled digital characters which understand the social body language and can interact in a social and physical way with humans. CAROUSEL+ wants to lay the technical foundation for “social enabled” digital characters. The innovation perspective of this new branch “Real-World Social and Physical AI” is tremendous as it can be applied to many applications in many areas, for physically interacting in a meaningful social way. In particular digital characters in the future could act as physical trainers, dancers, entertainers, actors, co-workers, health assistants, guides, educators, spectators, physical therapists and companions. Beyond social, entertainment, health and educational applications, CAROUSEL+ learning and understanding of body language and group dynamics could be deployed in many other areas, including security, peace-making, emergency handling and autonomous driving.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
67663 Kaiserslautern
Allemagne