Brice Parilusyan is passionate about robotics. He joined his school’s robotics association, twice taking part in the French robotics championship and built InMoov, a life-size humanoid robot. His internship will be on the study of social signals in a group. He is studying the “emerging state” in a group, such as cohesiveness and leadership and how they can be quantified by a virtual agent. He is being supervised by Giovanna Varni, lecturer at Télécom Paris.

Keywords: robotics, social signals, virtual agent