Section: Other Grants and Activities
National initiatives
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Part@ge (ANR 2006 - RNTL) - Partners : INSA Rennes, INRIA (Alcove, I3D), CNRS (LaBRI, Mouvement et Perception), ESIEA, FT R&D, CEA-LIST, VIRTOOLS, HAPTION, CLARTE, RENAULT, THALES, SOGITEC).
This project aims to propose a software platform for collaborative work, studying it from the point of view of a human interacting in collaboration inside a 3D environment. Part@ge will use a multi-criteria analysis in order to propose several innovative solutions:
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functions associated with collaboration in a 3D environment: starting from technical design up to maintenance skill acquisition, the need to communicate and collaborate around 3D digital models is a major stake for the industry.
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technical infrastructures helping collaboration: there is a great diversity of technical platforms needed for collaborative 3D activities: from PDAs to war-rooms . Each of them has specific features that are more suited to specific applications.
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tools to spread 3D collaborative activities : to maximize the spread of Part@ge's innovative tools, three platforms already developed by some of the partners will be used : OpenMask, Spin and Virtools.
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scientific and technical new solutions: the heart of the project is composed by several research studies which intend to solve some current scientific and technical problems : models for CVE, communication and presence, advanced collaboration, usage of collaboration.
The INRIA is involved in a large part of this project.
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VORTISS (ANR-06-MDCA-015) Partners : LSIIT(strasbourg), IRCAD(strasbourg), IRCOM/SIC (poitiers). This project is leaded by Laurent Grisoni.).
This project aims at designing a robust and unified model which allows a faithful restitution of the shape and behaviour of organs in surgical simulators. This model relies on a coupling between several components: a precise geometric and visually realistic model of the organ which is reconstructed from medical images, a rigorous topological model allowing incisions, cuttings, tearings and destruction while assuming the structure consistency, a hybrid mechanical model and an interaction model which is adapted to deformable bodies with variable topology and allows the control of haptic devices. To deal with the precision vs computation speed compromise, the four components are necessarily multiresolution. The resolution of each model is chosen independently even if the model control remains highly connected to the other components.
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REACTIVE (ANR-07-TECSAN-020) Partners : Hopale (Berck), CEA-LIST, Idées3COM
Stroke is the leading cause of loss of autonomy in France (100 000-145 000 French (es) / year). The elderly population is the most affected, and the survivors suffer from disorders often compounded by cognitive problems. The project REACTIVE aims to develop a rehabilitation tool for patients that are cerebrovascular injured. This tool is based on the use of Virtual Reality (VR). The main idea is to combine the motion work and the cognitive work, in an environmental situation, in the hope of improving the transfer of learning. It is divided into 4 items : the environmental situation, analysis and integration of disability in the interaction techniques, new motion and sensorial interfaces, and the evaluation by the therapists and patients.
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INSTINCT Partners : INRIA Bordeaux, Immersion, CapSciences
This project focuses on the conception, the development and the evaluation of new tactile interfaces to promote the diffusion of 3D interactive applications among the public. The interaction with tactile surfaces, and more precisely multi-touch surfaces, are changing the way people interact with computers. The INSTINCT project aims at contributing to this trend by focusing on 3D applications. The partners will develop intuitive interfaces based on existing products and also develop new interfaces to enhance interaction (use of tactile feedback for example). The project started in October 2009.
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AEN SOFA Partners : INRIA Asclepios and Evasion projects
A national research initiative on medical simulation was officially launched in September 2008. The main objective is to accelerate / foster research activities in the field of Medical Simulation, with the long term goal of developing patient-specific simulations. This ambitious objective will initially translate into improved realism - and therefore higher credibility - of training systems. These research activities are essential to the development of patient-specific simulation systems dedicated to the planning of medical procedures. Most of these research activities rely on competencies shared across the different teams involved in this program. The second set of research activities relates to peripheral themes, for which the main effort consists in adapting existing algorithms of methods to a new set of problems.
One of the main difficulties of Medical Simulation research is its multidisciplinary aspect. The diagram in Fig. 6 illustrates the three main themes we plan to study during this program.
Figure 6. The National Research Initiative on Medical Simulation will address a series of interdependent problems in the multidisciplinary field of Medical Simulation. 
It clearly shows the interdependency between research themes, which reinforces the idea that only a coordinated program, where teams work together, can advance the state-of-the art significantly.
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INTACCT Partners research institute Charles Sadron (Strasbourg) laboratory of physics and mechanics of textile (Mulhouse)
INTTACT is a one-year project founded by a PEPS grant (CNRS). This project deals with the programmation of tactile stimuli in order to give a user information through the sense of touch. The goal is to propose tactile stimulators which are able to produce the physical sensation of touching finely textured surfaces, like fabrics for example. This project involves people from several research domains.
