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Projects

The team's projects are hosted at CERV, a technological platform from ENIB. 

Current projects

CogniShield: Cognitive Shield Against Disinformation: Design and Evaluation of a Cognitive Defense Serious Game for Adolescents (ANR ASTRID Resistance Programme, project led by LaPsyDÉ, CNRS UMR 8240)

The COGNI-SHIELD project designs, tests, and models a prebunking serious game aimed at strengthening adolescents' cognitive, emotional, and social resilience to information manipulation. Inspired by the vaccination metaphor of psychological inoculation theory, the game seeks to equip young people with genuine cognitive shields, enabling them to identify rhetorical techniques and manipulative biases before encountering real-world disinformation.

This work package focuses on developing dedicated game mechanics to support these cognitive defense objectives.

Contact: anne-gwenn.bosser@enib.fr 

COTARIX (from 2027): Coasts at Risk with Virtual Reality (ANR AAPG 2026, project led by LETG CNS UMR 6554)

Worldwide, while climate change is exacerbating the risks of coastal erosion and marine flooding, coastlines continue to accumulate populations, infrastructure and activities. This paradox may be partly driven by the rarity of direct experiences of coastal hazards, even though such experiences appear to be the best way to achieve long-term adaptive behaviour. Tools based on mixed reality can be a lever for building knowledge and for changing people’s practices.

The team leads two workpackages of the project:

HICAAR : Hippocampus-Inspired Computational model for general Artificial Abstract Reasoning (Inria Quadrant Programme – “High-Risk Research”)

The project aims to leverage recent neuroscience findings and deep learning architectures to address the challenge of abstract reasoning—the capacity to generalize skills by extracting general laws and transferring them across different tasks—in artificial intelligence.

This involves encoding abstract actions and perceptions and developing algorithms to learn resolutions at an abstract level. The methodology relies on twophases, with the start of the second phase conditioned by the success of the first. The first phase involves a precise and simple task that includes transferring reasoning from one example to another. In case of success with this task, we will address the core problem with complex examples provided by the Artificial General Intelligence community.

Contact: pierre.deloor@enib.fr 

Development of Evaluation Frameworks for AI in Brittonic Languages (with the support of the Brittany Region and the Welsh Government)

This network brings together Bangor University (Wales), the team of the ANR YAR project led by the CNRS IKER laboratory, and researchers from Lab-STICC. With the aim of advancing AI sovereignty for Brittonic languages, we seek to strengthen an ecosystem for the co-construction of foundational building blocks for the automatic processing of these languages.

This project focuses on evaluating the performance of AI models in our languages. We will develop methodologies to create very high-quality evaluation datasets in Breton and Welsh, using a human-centred evaluation approach. Evaluations will be carried out across different models, and their respective results will be analysed and presented in a clear, comparative, and accessible graphical form.

Welsh, Breton, and international open-source tools will be used and improved in order to deliver the project’s outputs.

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MARS: Mechanisms of Adherence and Resistance to Supremacism (ANR ASTRID Resistance Programme, project led by CLLE, CNRS UMR 5263)

The MARS project investigates the psychological, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms involved in vulnerability or resistance to online disinformation. Drawing on a multidisciplinary consortium bringing together cognitive psychology, psychopathology, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence, the project aims to better understand why individuals adhere or resist to manipulative narratives.

This work package focuses on assessing and leveraging the capabilities of AI models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), for the analysis of complex textual corpora collected from online influence communities.

Contact: anne-gwenn.bosser@enib.fr

Yezh Ar Vro: Application "The language of the country" (ANR call SAPS-RA-RP2 Science avec et pour la société – Recherches participatives 2024)

The YAR pilot research project is a collaboration between civil society players and academic researchers in linguistics and computer science (automatic language processing, ergonomics). This project takes part in the development of technologies for language preservation. The project is based in Brittany, France, and is being developed in conjunction with the speakers of a Celtic language in serious danger of extinction according to UNESCO: Breton. The Dastum association (collecting, safeguarding and disseminating Breton oral heritage since 1972) and the scientific cluster (CNRS and three universities) are mobilizing three associations of teachers, and coordinating with the support of the Bretagne Numérique endowment fund.

Contact: melanie.jouitteau@cnrs.fr