PhD Position F/M When Our Avatars Transform Us: Enhancing the VR User Experience by Modifying Avatar Movement

Contexte et atouts du poste

The funding for the PhD thesis candidature will be subject to a recruitment campaign of the University Rennes 1. This will also require the participant to pass tha ISA competition. More information: 

Mission confiée

The main aim of this project is to explore the perception of people's body movements (of self and others) when they are applied to a virtual character in virtual reality (VR) and to develop motion modifiers which will change the content of the motion without diminishing its naturalness. The first step will be to develop a motion filter in VR (using animation blueprints in Unreal Engine 5) which will be applied to a virtual character, designed for a user to embody and control it with their own body movements (Xsens motion capture). Through a series of experiments with participants, embodied in VR, we will investigate the perceptual effects of the created motion filter. We expect that understandin...