Today was the official launch of the SocNav Associate Team. The SocNav team is funded by Inria, promoting an interdisciplinary collaboration between Inria Centre de l’Université de Rennes (France) and Cirris – Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (Canada). More broadly, this project involves Cirris, LogVS team, VirtUs Inria team, Rainbow Inria team, the IH2A Chair, Pôle Saint Hélier, Université Rennes 2 and Université Laval. The scientific goal of this collaboration is to merge our common interests in locomotor navigation to study complex social navigation involving multiple pedestrians using an innovative, versatile immersive platform, based on the interdisciplinary (engineering, kinesiology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, physiatry, psychology) expertise of the teams. This scientific goal will be carried out over three main objectives:
1) Create and evaluate an immersive experimental platform to be used for the study of social navigation in complex social environments
2) Study and model how environmental and personal factors affect the control of navigation in complex social environments in healthy populations
3) Study and model how neurological deficits affect the control of navigation in complex social environments
For more details, and to follow the progress of the team, please visit our website.
