Embodied Social Agents Lab

Embodied Social Agents Lab

Computational Science and Technology Department (CST) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

PROJECT FUNDING

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European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network Four year duration (commencing Jan 2020), €4M total project funding CLIPE, Creating Lively Interactive Populated Environments, train a generation of innovators and researchers in the field of virtual characters simulation and animation and help bringing Europe at the forefront of the field by addressing the most important aspects of the problem. These include making the characters capable of behaving more naturally, interacting with real users sharing a virtual experience with them and being more intuitively and extensively controllable for virtual worlds designers. Consortium: University of Cyprus • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya • INRIA • KTH Royal Institute of Technology • University College London • Trinity College Dublin • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems • Ecole Polytechnique • Silversky3d • Treedy’s SPRL • British Broadcasting Corporation • Amazon.com • Studio Gobo • Uber BV

European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network Four year duration (commencing Jan 2018), €3.9M total project funding ANIMATAS will establish a leading European Training Network (ETN) devoted to the development of a new generation of creative and critical research leaders and innovators who have a skill-set tailored for the creation of social capabilities necessary for realising step changes in the development of intuitive human-machine interaction (HMI) in educational settings. Consortium: Universitie Pierre et Marie Curie, FR • Uppsala University, SE • Institut Mines-Telecom, FR • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE • Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), CH • INESC ID, PT • Jacobs University, DE • Softbank Robotics Europe (SBR), FR More information about the project: http://www.animatas.eu

European Commission Horizon 2020 Innovation Project Three year duration (commenced Jan 2015), €4.2M total project funding Consortium: Atos S.A., ES • Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), EL • University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, UK • Redikod AB, SE • PlayGen Ltd, UK • University of Cambridge, UK • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE • Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), EL • I.C. Lorenzi - Polo europeo della Conoscenza (Europole), IT The main contributions of the KTH team is Virtual Character Controller software supporting the creation of prosocial behaviours for small groups of virtual characters and the Emotions with Friends game for social skills development in classroom environments. More information about the project: http://prosociallearn.eu

SRN ICT: The Next Generation Project Three year duration (commenced Jan 2017), 4.5 MSEK total project funding This project concerns the use of mixed reality methods for exploring social interactions between humans and replica robots. More information about SRN ICT TNG: https://www.ict-tng.kth.se/ VirRob

Klimatsmart Swedish Energy Agency Three year duration, 4.5 MSEK total project funding Climate smart planning with digital mobility certificates: How environmentally friendly and transport efficient are we building? This project aims to develop an interactive planning tool supporting digital transport declarations. The interactive model, providing a real-time visualisation of buildings and the effects of localisation on traffic, serves as a support for stakeholders who participate in the planning process and can thereby contribute to the development of a transport-efficient society.