Mukesh Barange

Experience

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  INRIA Rennes - Université de Rennes 1

  Feb 2010 - May 2010

  Internship at Bunraku team, INRIA

  Internship Title: Tabletop Interactive Camera Control Internship Objective:1) Design the camera path interactively2) Identifying the mappings of natural gestures to the camera parameters.3) Evaluating the approach on multi-touch surfaces

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  Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)

  Oct 2010 - Mar 2015

  CORVETTE project is collaborative project, funded by the ANR, aims to facilitate collaboration between a real human and virtual humans when performing complex tasks (requiring multiple actors) in a virtual environment (VE). The project focuses on natural language communication between the real and virtual human users in task-oriented collaborative situations, the autonomy of the virtual human, and natural and real-time interaction with the VE. The goal is to design a collaborative virtual environment for technical training (learning procedures, maintenance, fault simulation...), in which virtual entities can be the avatar of users collaborating to complete a task. Show less

  • Temporary Assistant Lecturer and Researcher

    Sept 2013 - Mar 2015

  • Doctoral Researcher

    Oct 2010 - Mar 2015
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  INSA Rouen Normandie

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2019

  This research aims to optimize the modeling of dialogue interactions and use these models in an Interactive, affective, and Narrative Embodied Conversational Agent.- Modeling and development of interactive multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents.- Design, deployment and validation of components for Human-Agent interaction (eye tracking, recognition of facial expressions, emotions, joint attention, speaking skills, etc.) - Designing and Development of Narrative Interactive Storytelling scenarios.- Maintenance and development of the Agentslang platform dedicated to the deployment of conversational agents (https://agent.roboslang.org/)- Organization and analysis of user experiments- Scientific articles Show less

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Aug 2017 - Jul 2019

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Aug 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
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  Sorbonne Université

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  The goal of research is to design, implement and evaluate user interaction with the team of virtual agents, the council of coaches (Home Interface) and one-on-one interaction with a single coach (Mobile Interface). In particular it focuses on- Modelling coaches with their own specific agenda and behaviour style aiming at creating unique social relationships with users.- Adapting virtual coaches’ behavior to ensure that user maintains her involvement in the relationship with the coaches.- Integrating a backchannel model to ensure dynamic turn-taking and user’s engagement. Show less

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  INSA Rouen Normandie

  Jan 2021 - Aug 2022

  Postdoctoral Researcher
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  CESI

  Jun 2023 - now

  Associate Professor