DESCRIPTION
The positions will involve working in one of several projects (national funding) related to virtual characters, affective interaction, and multimodal corpora. These projects involve cooperation with academic, industrial, artistic and  clinical partners.

- project CARE:
The goal of this position is to model, implement and evaluate an expressive agent for augmented dance performances.
The model will aim at controlling the MARC expressive agent developed at LIMSI from video and motion captured data collected from a dancer.

- project AUTISM:
The goal of this position is to model, implement and evaluate animations of social interaction between virtual characters for pedagogical software to be used by autistic users.

- two other projects on multimodal corpora and expressive storytelling

Previous experience in graphic programming / affective modeling / perceptive evaluations is welcomed.

Interviews will take place in October 2008

REMUNERATION
1900 Euros per month during one year

CONTACT
Jean-Claude MARTIN
Associate Professor in Computer Science / Habilitation to Direct Research www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin LIMSI, Orsay (30' from Paris), France Mobile : +33 6 84 21 62 05