PhD Thomas ALVES

Thomas ALVES

• PhD title: Visualisation and Interactions with a Virtual Honey Bee Colony : Simulation, Complexity and Pedagogy
  • Online access to the PhD thesis
• INUIT Themes 1 and 4
• Thesis dates: 10/2018 – 12/2021
• Supervision: V. Rodin – T. Duval – J. Rivière
• Context/Funding: 100 % CDE UBO
• General Goal:
  • To provide a better understanding of a complex system by providing a 3D immersive visualization of the system and offering 3D interactions
• Scientific challenges:
  • To determine and implement a realistic model of a complex system (here : a honey bee colony)
  • To provide 3D immersive interactions with the 3D visualization of the virtual honey bee colony
• Keywords: Complex Systems, Agent based simulation, Self-organisation, Honey bee colony, Immersive Visualisations and Interactions
• Contributions:
  • An agent-based model simulating the task allocation self-organisation in a honeybee colony
  • A tangible hive coupled with an immersive VR visualization to intuitively interact with the simulation
  • An abstract 3D visualization of the complex mechanisms of the task allocation