Description du projet
Enrichir les interactions sociales dans les espaces hybrides partagés
La réalité étendue (XR) est une technologie émergente au potentiel prometteur dans de nombreux domaines, mais plusieurs limites doivent encore être levées pour enrichir l’expérience interactive des utilisateurs. Le projet SHARESPACE, financé par l’UE, ambitionne d’établir un nouveau prototype d’avatar et/ou d’agent socialement interactif basé sur la communication sensorimotrice humaine. Il saisira les mouvements naturels du corps, les expressions faciales et les gestes de la main pour compiler un ensemble de primitives sensorimotrices. Celles-ci aideront à concevoir une architecture basée sur l’IA d’un rendu humain entièrement mobile avec des caractéristiques personnalisables. SHARESPACE validera le prototype dans trois situations réelles d’espaces hybrides partagés impliquant des agents humains et artificiels dans les domaines de la santé, du sport et de l’art.
Objectif
SHARESHARESPACE will demonstrate a radically new technology for promoting ethical and social interaction in eXtended Reality (XR) Shared Hybrid Spaces (SHS), anchored in human sensorimotor communication. Our core concept is to identify and segment social sensorimotor primitives and reconstruct them in hybrid settings to build continuous, embodied, and rich human- avatar experiences. To achieve this, three interconnected science-towards-technology breakthroughs will be delivered: novel computational cognitive architectures, a unique self-calibrating body sensor network, and a fully mobile spatial Augmented Reality (AR) and virtual human rendering. We will create a library of social motion primitives and use them to design AI-based architectures of our artificial agents. SHARESPACE mobile capturing technologies combine loosely-coupled visual-inertial tracking of full body kinematic, hand pose and facial expression, incorporating novel neural encoding/decoding functionalities, together with local context-aware animations and highly realistic neural rendering. Our technology will be iteratively tested in 2 Proofs-of-principles involving human and artificial agents interacting in SHS, and 3 real-world use case scenarios in Health, Sport and Art. We will demonstrate a fully functional prototype of SHARESPACE tailored to the agents’ personalized characteristics (gender, culture, and social dispositions). SHARESPACE will support community-building and exploitation with concrete initiatives, including (i) public engagement around our research and innovation, (ii) promoting high-tech innovation and early transfer to our deep-tech companies, as premises for the consolidation of human-centric and sovereign European market areas such Industry AR and SHS, eHealth and tele-Health. Our long-term vision is to bring XR to a radically new level of presence and sociality by reconstructing sensorimotor primitives that enable ethical, trusted and inclusive modes of social interaction.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealth
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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