PhD Thomas RINNERT

Thomas RINNERT

• PhD title: Perceiving distant collaborative activity with eXtended Reality
• INUIT Theme 3
• Thesis dates: 10/2020 – 09/2023
• Supervision: T. Duval – C. Fleury – (G. Coppin) – B. Thomas – J. Walsh
• Context/Funding: CNRS International – IRL CROSSING
• General Goal:
  • To provide new awareness cues to better understand the physical and emotional status of remote collaborators
• Scientific challenges:
  • To determine which kind of information is needed to understand how our collaborators are feeling
  • To determine how and where collaborative awareness cues must be visualized
• Keywords: Virtual Reality, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Activity perception
• Contributions:
  • Determining if visual cues can inform about the stress and fatigue of collaborators in collaborative virtual environments: Proposal, implementation and evaluation of a collaborative system based on the MatB-II microworld, enabling the status of a user working in a team to be visualized, so that his teammate can go and help him in the event of overload (MTI 2023 article)
  • Demonstration in remote collaborative mode between Brest and Adelaide during the visit of CNRS President Antoine Petit to IRL CROSSING on April 14, 2022
  • Proposal, implementation and evaluation of a system for visualizing a collaborator's state, enabling a supervisor to optimize his or her workload and that of the team (MDPI Applied Sciences 2023 article)
  • Proposal, implementation and evaluation of a system for predicting collaborators' state before overloading them
• Perspective
  • extend the system to real Aumented Reality collaborative situations