Discover the research work carried out by Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS researcher) and Maud Marchal (INSA professor), Guillaume Gicquel (CNRS research engineer) and Thomas Howard (CNRS post-doctoral student) members of the Rainbow research team, thanks to which touch should soon make its entry into virtual reality. Read the article "le Monde" (in french only) and on the CNRS website
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Imagine being able to touch and interact
Between transparency and confidentiality, is electronic voting viable?
In France, where the first lockdown was imposed immediately following the initial round of the 2020 municipal elections, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought remote electronic voting back to the forefront. Stéphanie Delaune (research director CNRS and member of EMSEC team) and Véronique Cortier (resarch director CNRS at Loria), specialists in cryptographic issues, shed light on the scientific [..]
Retrospective of press article in 2020
To read or to reread if you miss it in 2020...
How did our ancestors walk?
How did Australopitecus, Homo habilis and our other ancestors or "cousins" work? To find out, the biomechanics and computer scientists of the HoBis project are modeling the walking of human specimens covered with sensors, but also that of baboons, occasional adepts of movement on their two hind legs... To discover this report proposed by the CNRS in partnership with LeMonde.fr (in french) Franck [..]
Two people slipped into the same body . . . virtually!
The experience is unprecedented. So much so that it has led to the invention of a word: co-incarnation. This experience consists of two people sharing the simultaneous control of one and the same avatar. This milestone opens up an array of possibilities, in particular in the field of VR-based training. Débutées en 2018, les résultats de ces expériences surprenantes sont parus dans l'édition de [..]
The 5G, how it works explained by Xavier Lagrange on The Conversation
Xavier Lagrange , Professor of Network Systems at IMT Atlantique and member of the ADOPNET team, explains the technological aspects of 5G operation on the Conversation site. Read the article (in French)
How to improve the attention of goalkeepers?
Front-page article of the CNRS journal ... How to improve the attention of goalkeepers? Knowing how to look out of the corner of your eye can be crucial when you are a professional footballer and especially a goalkeeper! Thanks to a study conducted with the complicity of several of them, a cognitive science researcher has obtained promising results to improve peripheral vision Read the article [..]
When IRISA combines the past with the future
As archaeological remains are fragile witnesses to be analyzed, interpreted, preserved and valorized, discover on the occasion of the European days of archaeology, the multiple innovative digital approaches in this field ... Valérie Gouranton (associate professor INSA) coordinator of the ANR-FRQSC INTROSPECT project and Ronan Gaugne (research engineer), members of the Hybrid research team. From [..]