My research interests revolve around Human(Centred)-Computer Interaction with a strong emphasis on Embodied Conversational Agents (in particular their nonverbal expressivity) and Video Games.

Some projects:

ANR VirtuAlz

This project's objective is to develop of an innovative pedagogical software for healthcare professionals to train them on how to handle daily interactions with Alzheimer patients. Within this project, I co-supervise Amine Benamara's PhD thesis on the elaboration of a computational pathological model of emotions for a virtual patient.

PADME

This project's objective is to investigate how to take into account a user personnality to adapt interactions within a mobile application aimed at promoting physical activities. This project is the PhD thesis of David Rei, whom I co-supervise.

ANR COPAINS

This project's objective is to develop a software assistant able to influence positively the motivation of users towards physical activities for health improvement. Within this project, I investigate the effect of motivational interviewing techniques and principles on a user's self-efficacy when applied in a human-computer interaction.

MIMETIC

This project's objective is to create a tangible interactive device aimed at training children with ASD to perform joint-actions. Within this project, I worked on the tracking of the tangible objects and on the visualization of the children's activities with the system.

ImCasting

This project's objective is to investigate the development of an immersive game environment designed to support the interactive training of motions for Embodied Conversational Agents. Within this project, I co-supervised Miriam Punzi's Master thesis who built and evaluated the first version of the system.

2023

• Overview of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval
  Bondarenko, Alexander; Fröbe, Maik; Kiesel, Johannes; Schlatt, Ferdinand; Barrière, Valentin; Ravenet, Brian; Hemamou, Léo; Luck, Simon; Reimer, Jan Heinrich; Stein, Benno; Potthast, Martin; Hagen, Matthias,
  in ECIR2023, pp. 527-535, 2023.

2022

• Towards Personalised Virtual Coaching Based on Self-Determination Theory and Regulatory Focus Theory
  Rei, David; Ravenet, Brian; Martin, Jean-Claude; Clavel, Celine,
  in ECPP2022, 2022.

• Embodied Virtual Patients as a Simulation-Based Framework for Training Clinician-Patient Communication Skills: An Overview of Their Use in Psychiatric and Geriatric Care
  Chaby, Laurence; Benamara, Amine; Pino, Maribel; Prigent, Elise; Ravenet, Brian; Martin, Jean-Claude; Vanderstichel, Helene; Becerril-Ortega, Raquel; Rigaud, Anne-Sophie; Chetouani, Mohamed,
  in Frontiers, 2022.

• COPALZ: A Computational Model of Pathological Appraisal Biases for an Interactive Virtual Alzheimer Patient
  Benamara, Amine; Martin, Jean-Claude; Prigent, Elise; Chaby, Laurence; Chetouani, Mohamed; Zagdoun, Jean; Vanderstichel, Helene; Dacunha, Sebastien; Ravenet, Brian,
  in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 72-81, 2022.

• ImCasting: Nonverbal Behaviour Reinforcement Learning of Virtual Humans through Adaptive Immersive Game
  Punzi, Miriam; Ladeveze, Nicolas; Nguyen, Huyen; Ravenet, Brian,
  in IUI2022, pp. 62-65, 2022.

• Design Process for a Virtual Simulation Environment for Training Healthcare Professionals in Geriatrics
  Becerril-Ortega, Raquel; Vanderstichel, Helene; Petit, Lucie; Urbiolagallegos, Maria Jose; Schoch, Joanne; Dacunha, Sebastien; Benamara, Amine; Ravenet, Brian; Zagdoun, Jean; Chaby, Laurence,
  in Simulation Training through the Lens of Experience and Activity Analysis, pp. 101-127, 2022.

• Cognitive Planning in Motivational Interviewing
  Lorini, Emiliano; Sabouret, Nicolas; Ravenet, Brian; Fernandez, Jorge; Clavel, Celine,
  in ICAART2022, pp. 508-517, 2022.

2021

• IdlePose: A Dataset of Spontaneous Idle Motions
  Ravenet, Brian,
  in Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, pp. 164–168, 2021.

• Conception d'interactions virtuelles et tangibles pour apprendre la collaboration motrice à des enfants avec Trouble du Spectre de l'Autisme: Design of virtual and tangible interaction to learn motor collaboration to children with ASD
  Giraud, Tom; Ravenet, Brian; Nadel, Jacqueline; Dang, Chi Tai; Prigent, Elise; Poli, Gaël; Andre, Elizabeth; Martin, Jean-Claude,
  in Proceedings of IHM2021 French Conference, 2021.

• Conception des Interactions avec un Patient Virtuel Alzheimer pour la Formation du Personnel Soignant: Designing Interactions with an Alzheimer Virtual Patient for Caregiver Training
  Benamara, Amine; Prigent, Elise; Martin, Jean-Claude; Zagdoun, Jean; Chaby, Laurence; Chetouani, Mohamed; Dacunha, Sebastien; Vanderstichel, Helene; Ravenet, Brian,
  in Proceedings of IHM2021 French Conference, 2021.

• Des leaders d’équipes virtuels pour encourager le développement du système de mémoire transactive: Virtual Leaders Supporting the Development of Transactive Memory Systems
  Biancardi, Beatrice; Giaccaglia, Ivan; Varni, Giovanna; Ravenet, Brian,
  in Proceedings of IHM2021 French Conference, 2021.

• How ECA vs Human Leaders Affect the Perception of Transactive Memory System (TMS) in a Team
  Biancardi, Beatrice; O'Toole, Patrick; Giaccaglia, Ivan; Ravenet, Brian; Pitt, Ian; Mancini, Maurizio; Varni, Giovanna,
  in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interactions, pp. 1–8, 2021.

• “Can you help me move this over there?”: training children with ASD to joint action through tangible interaction and virtual agent
  Giraud, Tom; Ravenet, Brian; Dang, Chi Tai; Nadel, Jacqueline; Prigent, Elise; Poli, Gaël; Andre, Elizabeth; Martin, Jean-Claude,
  in Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 1–12, 2021.

• Interaction avec un agent motivationnel pour soutenir le changement de comportement
  Louvet, Antoine; Clavel, Céline; Ravenet, Brian; Sabouret, Nicolas,
  in Proceedings of IHM2021 French Conference,2021.

• Debating Europe: A Multilingual Multi-Target Stance Classification Dataset of Online Debates
  Barrière, Valentin; Balahur, Alexandra; Ravenet, Brian,
  in PoliticalNLP@LREC 2022, pp. 16-21, 2021.

2020

• Patient virtuel Alzheimer: vers une modélisation informatique des pathologies émotionnelles et expressives
  Benamara, Amine; Ravenet, Brian; Prigent, Elise; Chaby, Laurence; Martin, Jean-Claude,
  in Workshop sur les Affects, Compagnons artificiels et Interactions, 2020.

• The WoNoWa Dataset: Investigating the Transactive Memory System in Small Group Interactions
  Biancardi, Beatrice; Maisonnave-Couterou, Lou; Renault, Pierrick; Ravenet, Brian; Mancini, Maurizio; Varni, Giovanna,
  in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, pp. 528–537, 2020.

2019

• Exploiting evolutionary algorithms to model nonverbal reactions to conversational interruptions in user-agent interactions
  Cafaro, Angelo; Ravenet, Brian; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE, 2019.

2018

• Automatic nonverbal behavior generation from image schemas
  Ravenet, Brian; Clavel, Chloé; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp. 1667–1674, 2018.

• Automating the production of communicative gestures in embodied characters
  Ravenet, Brian; Pelachaud, Catherine; Clavel, Chloé; Marsella, Stacy,
  in Frontiers in psychology, vol. 9, pp. 1144, Frontiers, 2018.

2017

• Strategically Misleading the User: Building a Deceptive Virtual Suspect
  Rato, Diogo; Ravenet, Brian; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana,
  in Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp. 1711–1713, 2017.

• The potential of Image Schemas for computing automatically metaphoric gestures for embodied conversational agents
  Ravenet, Brian; Clavel, Chloé; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in European Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, 2017.

• Towards the Generation of Expressive Co-Speech Gestures
  Ravenet, Brian; Clavel, Chloé; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in 3rd WS on Virtual Social Interaction, 2017.

2016

• Emotion and attitude modeling for non-player characters
  Ravenet, Brian; Pecune, Florian; Chollet, Mathieu; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Emotion in Games, pp. 139–154, Springer, Cham, 2016.

• Perceiving attitudes expressed through nonverbal behaviors in immersive virtual environments
  Ravenet, Brian; Bevacqua, Elisabetta; Cafaro, Angelo; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Motion in Games, pp. 175–180, 2016.

• The Effects of Interpersonal Attitude of a Group of Agents on User’s Presence and Proxemics Behavior
  Ochs, Magalie; Cafaro, Angelo; Ravenet, Brian; Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  2016.

• The effects of interpersonal attitude of a group of agents on user’s presence and proxemics behavior
  Cafaro, Angelo; Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1–33, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2016.

2015

• Autonomous agents and avatars in REVERIE's virtual environment
  Kuijk, Fons; Apostolakis, Konstantinos C; Daras, Petros; Ravenet, Brian; Wei, Haolin; Monaghan, David S,
  in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, pp. 279–287, 2015.

• Conversational behavior reflecting interpersonal attitudes in small group interactions
  Ravenet, Brian; Cafaro, Angelo; Biancardi, Beatrice; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 375–388, 2015.

• Modélisation de comportements non-verbaux et d'attitudes sociales dans la simulation de groupes conversationnels
  Ravenet, Brian,
  Paris, ENST, 2015.

• Vers des Agents Conversationnels Animés dotés d'émotions et d'attitudes sociales
  Pelachaud, Catherine; Clavel, Chloe; Prepin, Ken; Glas, Nadine; Pecune, Florian; Ravenet, Brian; Chollet, Mathieu; Fourati, Nesrine; Ding, Yu; Ochs, Magalie,
  in Journal d'Interaction Personne-Système, vol. 3, Episciences. org, 2015.

2014

• A computational model of social attitudes for a virtual recruiter
  Callejas, Zoraida; Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, pp. 93–100, 2014.

• A model to generate adaptive multimodal job interviews with a virtual recruiter.
  Callejas, Zoraida; Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in LREC, pp. 3615–3619, 2014.

• Architecture of a socio-conversational agent in virtual worlds
  Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 3983–3987, 2014.

• Interpersonal attitude of a speaking agent in simulated group conversations
  Ravenet, Brian; Cafaro, Angelo; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 345–349, 2014.

• Nonverbal behavior of a virtual agent expressing attitudes in a group
  Ravenet, Brian; Cafaro, Angelo; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in WACAI 2014 Worshop A ects, Compagnons Artificiels, Interaction, pp. 101, 2014.

• Vers des Agents Conversationnels Animés dotés d'émotions et d'attitudes sociales
  Ochs, Magalie; Ding, Yu; Fourati, Nesrine; Chollet, Mathieu; Ravenet, Brian; Pecune, Florian; Glas, Nadine; Prepin, Ken; Clavel, Chloe; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  2014.

2013

• A Framework for Human-like Behavior in an immersive virtual world
  Kuijk, Fons; Van Broeck, Sigurd; Dareau, Claude; Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Apostolakis, Konstantinos; Daras, Petros; Monaghan, David; O'Connor, Noel E; Wall, Julie; others,
  in 2013 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp. 1–7, 2013.

• A crowdsourcing toolbox for a user-perception based design of social virtual actors
  Ochs, Magalie; Ravenet, Brian; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Computers are Social Actors Workshop (CASA), 2013.

• From a user-created corpus of virtual agent’s non-verbal behavior to a computational model of interpersonal attitudes
  Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in International workshop on intelligent virtual agents, pp. 263–274, 2013.

• Vers des agents conversationnels animés socio-affectifs
  Ochs, Magalie; Ding, Yu; Fourati, Nesrine; Chollet, Mathieu; Ravenet, Brian; Pecune, Florian; Glas, Nadine; Prepin, Ken; Clavel, Chloé; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in Proceedings of the 25th Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine, pp. 69–78, 2013.

2012

• A computational model of social attitude effects on the nonverbal behavior for a relational agent
  Ravenet, Brian; Ochs, Magalie; Pelachaud, Catherine,
  in WACAI 2012, Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, pp. 94, 2012.