New paper: « LLM-based Agentic Work ow on Verbal and Non-verbal Audiovisual Perceptions and Actions for Proactive Situated Human-Robot Interactions ».

Virgile Sucal, Maxime Jullien, Ahmed Njifenjou, Fabrice Lefèvre. LLM-based Agentic Work ow on Verbal and Non-verbal Audiovisual Perceptions and Actions for Proactive Situated Human-Robot Interactions. 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’25), Nov 2025, Yokohama, Japan. 2025, 979-8-4007-2178-6/25/11. ⟨10.1145/3765766.3765797⟩. ⟨hal-05430382⟩ DOI Ref HAL

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Mr Ahmed NJIFENJOU will publicly defend his thesis entitled: «Open-domain conversational agents based on transformer-based language models: towards multilingualism and personality» supervised by Mr Fabrice LEFEVRE, on Friday 19 December 2025.

DATE AND PLACE Oral defense scheduled on Friday, 19 December 2025 at 2pmLocation: 339 Chemin des Menajaries, 84911 AvignonRoom: CERI lecture theatre DISCIPLINE Computer Science LABORATORY UPR 4128 LIA – Avignon Computing Laboratory COMPOSITION OF THE JURY Mr Fabrice LEFEVRE  Avignon University  Thesis supervisor Ms Lina Maria ROJAS-BARAHONA  Orange Innovation  Rapporteur Mr Didier SCHWAB  Grenoble Alpes University  […]

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New paper: « Open-Source Large Language Models as Multilingual Crowdworkers: Synthesizing Open-Domain Dialogues in Several Languages With No Examples in Targets and No Machine Translation ».

Ahmed Njifenjou, Virgile Sucal, Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre. Open-Source Large Language Models as Multilingual Crowdworkers: Synthesizing Open-Domain Dialogues in Several Languages With No Examples in Targets and No Machine Translation. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Aug 2025, Avignon, France. pp.697-749. ⟨hal-05450721⟩ Ref HAL

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New paper: « FlowAct: A Proactive Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System with Continuous Flow of Perception and Modular Action Sub-Systems ».

Timothée Dhaussy, Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre. FlowAct: A Proactive Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System with Continuous Flow of Perception and Modular Action Sub-Systems. 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Feb 2025, Porto, Portugal. pp. 771 – 779, ⟨10.5220/0013265700003905⟩. ⟨hal-05444837⟩ DOI Ref HAL

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PHD DEFENSE TRISTAN CLADIÈRE: « CONTEXT-AWARE EMOTION RECOGNITION: EXPLORING COMPACT ARCHITECTURES FOR SOCIAL ROBOTICS »

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 10am Telecom Saint-Etienne Amphithéâtre J02042000 Saint Etienne « Context-aware emotion recognition: exploring compact architectures for social robotics » ABSTRACT: In order to improve human-robot exchanges, it is necessary to exploit both verbal and non-verbal information emitted by humans, and to integrate them into the decision-making process of robots. The main non-verbal indicator of […]

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Mr Timothée DHAUSSY will publicly defend his thesis entitled: « L’interaction humain-robot multimodal proactive dans un cadre hospitalier », on Monday 21 October 2024.

DATE AND PLACE Oral defense scheduled on Monday 21 October 2024 at 2pmVenue: 74 Rue Louis Pasteur, 84029 AvignonThesis room DISCIPLINE Computer Science LABORATORY UPR 4128 LIA – Avignon Computing Laboratory COMPOSITION OF THE JURY MR FABRICE LEFEVRE  Avignon University  Thesis supervisor Mr Julien PINQUIER  Paul Sabatier University  Rapporteur Ms Aurélie CLODIC  LAAS-CNRS  Rapporteur Bassam JABAIAN  Avignon […]

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New paper (in French): « FlowAct : Un système d’interaction homme-robot multimodal pro-actif avec un ux continu de perception et des sous-systèmes d’action modulaires ».

Timothée Dhaussy, Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre. FlowAct : Un système d’interaction homme-robot multimodal pro-actif avec un ux continu de perception et des sous-systèmes d’action modulaires. WACAI 2024 -Workshop sur les “Affects, Compagnons Articiels et Interactions”, Jun 2024, Bordeaux, France. ⟨hal-04909813⟩ Ref HAL

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