Title: Toward a Characterization of Perceptual Biases in Mixed Reality: A Study of Factors Inducing Distance Misperception

Thesis carried out in the AAU Crenau (Nantes) and Inria (Rennes) labs.

Defended at Nantes on November 24, 2020. (Replay of the defense available here)

Supervision:

• Guillaume Moreau, École Centrale de Nantes
• Ferran Argelaguet, Inria Rennes
• Jean-Marie Normand, École Centrale de Nantes

Jury:

• Victoria INTERRANTE, University of Minnesota
• Jean-Louis VERCHER, CNRS
• Sarah CREEM-REGEHR, University of Utah
• Valérie GYSELINCK, Gustave Eiffel University
• Anatole LÉCUYER, Inria Rennes

Highly selective French Engineering School conferring a diploma equivalent to a Master’s degree.

• First year: Training as a general engineer, core curriculum.
• Second year: Major: Virtual Reality
• Third year: Gap year
  • Development of digital applications for heritage (8 months)
  • Advanced go practice during a trip to Japan (6 months).
• Fourth year: Research Major.

• Member of the Inuit team, from the Lab-STICC lab

Perception and Interaction in Augmented Reality

Hybrid Team, Inria Rennes / AAU Crenau, École Centrale de Nantes

« Influence of the disparity between accommodation and vergence in the perception of augmented reality environments »

Bibliographic research, design and realization of experiments, writing of scientific documents.

« Modeling and simulation of heritage: for a critical evaluation of digital applications »

Interviews of curators and head of communication of cultural institutions. Analyze of and preparation of a report on the use of digital technologies in French museums.

Experimentation of new methods of cultural mediation.

Development of interactive AR applications based on a 3D environment and a corpus of archive images.

In situ interfacing of archive data during the visit of a major cultural venue in the city of Nantes: the Mauduit salons.

• Teaching in the Computer Science department, mainly within the RVSI track and the SIIA Master. * Responsible for the RVSI TAF from 2022 to 2025 and for the RVSI track from 2025 to 2026.

• Responsibilities for Teaching Units (UE)

  • RVRA – Réalité Virtuelle & Réalité Augmentée (Master SIIA & RVSI track since 2025)
  • ECoTI – Enjeux et Conception pour les Technologies Immersives (since 2021)
  • FHEES – Facteurs Humains et Études Expérimentales (since 2021)
  • LogIHM – Interaction Homme-Machine en Réalité Virtuelle (until 2024)
  • TERV – Techniques et Enjeux de la Réalité Virtuelle (until 2024)
  • RAUG – Vision par Ordinateur et Réalité Augmentée (until 2024)

• Main courses taught (2021–2026)

  • RVRA – Augmented/Virtual Reality (SIIA Master): 20–31h/year
  • Human Factors in XR (RVSI track): 40h/year
  • Advanced Mixed Reality Project (RVSI track): 40h/year
  • Scientific methodology (SIIA Master): 6h/year
  • Info (1Y): 30h/year

• Additional pedagogical activities

  • Tutor for 2Y and 3Y projects (2–3 groups/year)
  • Jury member for 2Y/3Y defenses
  • Tutor for FIP apprentices
  • Supervision of 1Y/2Y projects
  • Tutor for Go-related internships

• First year program (eq. L3)
  • ALGPR (algorithm and programming)
    • Practicals, 2017-2019, 18h / year
  • Supervision of industrial projects
    • 2017-2020, 2 project groups / year
• Second and third year, Virtual Reality major (eq. M1-2)
  • VSION (computer vision and augmented reality)
    • Practicals, 2017-2020, 28h / year
  • Initiation to the use of 3D software (Unity)
    • Practicals, 2018-2020, 6h / year
  • COARV (advanced knowledge in virtual reality)
    • Practicals and supervision of projects, 2018-2020, 22h / year
  • Supervision of application projects
    • 2017-2020, total: ~15 projects

• One-day intervention (lecture and practicals) dedicated to Augmented Reality, as part of the “Virtual / Augmented Reality & 3D Interactions” major
  • Feb. 2020, 6h