SHARESHARESPACE will demonstrate a radically new technology for promoting ethical and social interaction in eXtended Reality (XR) Shared Hybrid Spaces (SHS), anchored in human sensorimotor communication. Our core concept is to identify and segment social sensorimotor primitives and reconstruct them in hybrid settings to build continuous, embodied, and rich human- avatar experiences.
To achieve this, three interconnected science-towards-technology breakthroughs will be delivered: novel computational cognitive architectures, a unique self-calibrating body sensor network, and a fully mobile spatial Augmented Reality (AR) and virtual human rendering. We will create a library of social motion primitives and use them to design AI-based architectures of our artificial agents. SHARESPACE mobile capturing technologies combine loosely-coupled visual-inertial tracking of full body kinematic, hand pose and facial expression, incorporating novel neural encoding/decoding functionalities, together with local context-aware animations and highly realistic neural rendering. Our technology will be iteratively tested in 2 Proofs-of-principles involving human and artificial agents interacting in SHS, and 3 real-world use case scenarios in Health, Sport and Art. We will demonstrate a fully functional prototype of SHARESPACE tailored to the agents’ personalized characteristics (gender, culture, and social dispositions). The role of LABPSITEC (UJI) in the project is to identify and evaluate the influence of psychological and social variables in XR shared hybrid spaces during the development and evaluation of SHARESPACE.
SHARESPACE will support community-building and exploitation with concrete initiatives, including (i) public engagement around our research and innovation, (ii) promoting high-tech innovation and early transfer to our deep-tech companies, as premises for the consolidation of human-centric and sovereign European market areas such Industry AR and SHS, eHealth and tele-Health. Our long-term vision is to bring XR to a radically new level of presence and sociality by reconstructing sensorimotor primitives that enable ethical, trusted, and inclusive modes of social interaction.
Reference: 101092889 – SHARESPACE
Duration: 3 years (from 01/01/2023 to 31/12/2025)
Funding entity:
European Union
Specific program: Digital, Industry and Space
Call identifier: HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01
Topic: HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-14 – eXtended Reality Technologies (RIA)
PI: Azucena García Palacios
Participating institutions:
- German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Coordinator) (Alemania)
- Universitat Jaume I (España)
- Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
- Ars electrónica Linz GmbH & Co KG (Austria)
- CRdC Nuove Tecnologie per le Attività Produttive Scarl (Italia)
- Cyens Center of Excellence (Chipre)
- De Monfort University (Gran Bretaña)
- Golaem S.A. (Francia)
- Hospital Vall d’Hebron (España)
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Francia)
- Lightspace Technologies SIA (Letonia)
- Ricoh Europe (Alemania)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Alemania)
- University of Montpellier (Francia)
