DESCRIPTION :
This position is part of the INPUT Associate Team, a collaborative research effort between Inria Lille's LOKI team and the University of Waterloo's HCI group, focused on rethinking how interactive systems handle user input: from sensing and filtering to processing and transforming in real time.
This postdoc will focus on applying these design objectives to digital fabrication and design tools, such as interactive fabrication systems, CAD environments, and AI-assisted modeling workflows. The position aligns with LOKI's broader research on interaction dynamics and human-centered design technologies, with an emphasis on precision, adaptivity, and real-time control.
The successful candidate will work on core challenges of manual input pipelines, digital tool controls, and context-aware intent prediction, contributing to new systems that support expert and novice users in designing, prototyping, and fabricating artifacts through digital or hybrid digital-physical processes.
Research will take place at Inria Lille with potential research stays at the University of Waterloo, supported through the Associate Team., We seek a postdoctoral researcher interested in exploring adaptive input pipelines for software and systems used in digital fabrication. This includes real-time sensing and processing of user input in tools that support:
* Interactive fabrication or semi-automated fabrication
* CAD and 3D modeling, including AI-assisted modeling and generative design
* Augmented reality modeling and in-situ model visualization
Your work will contribute to re-design how such tools capture, interpret, and respond to user input to support precision, expressivity, and collaboration. Your work will expand insights into input pipelines and refine technologies that are part of the INPUT project.
Principales activités
Possible research directions include:
* Adaptive filtering and control of user input in fabrication tasks, such as digital motion control tools, gesture input, or tracking data of manually moved physical items.
* Sensor signal processing and calibration techniques for hybrid fabrication environments that combine physical tools, motion tracking, and digital controllers.
* Predictive input systems that anticipate user motion based on design intent to compensate for noisy analog to digital transformation of sensing signals, in support of semi-autonomous tool behavior.
* Interactive systems for AI-assisted making, where human and machine jointly contribute to the creation of physical artifacts.
* Human-in-the-loop modeling tools that let users refine or override automated suggestions in real time, supported by responsive input systems.
* Design of new input techniques tailored to creative or fabrication-specific workflows, including tangible, spatial, and AR-assisted interactions.
Code d'emploi : Concepteur de Médias Digitaux (h/f)
Domaine professionnel actuel : Professionnels du Web
Niveau de formation : Bac+8
Temps partiel / Temps plein : Plein temps
Type de contrat : Contrat à durée indéterminée (CDI)
Compétences : Unity 3d, Java Script, Modélisation 3D, Impression en 3D, CAD, Indesign, Intelligence Artificielle, Réalité Augmentée, C ++ (Langage de Programmation), Programmation Informatique, Interaction Homme Machine, Python (Langage de Programmation), Traitement de Signal, Conception Centrée sur l'Utilisateur, Adaptabilité, Créativité, Étalonnage, Théories de Contrôle, Modélisation et Fabrication Numériques, Numérisation, Systèmes Embarqués, Elaboration des Prévisions, Interactivité, Découpe Laser, Fabrication, Contrôle de Mouvement, Recherche Post-Doctorale, Analyses Prédictives, Visualisation, Réalisation de Prototypes, Expériences de Recherche, Workflows, Organiser des Campagnes, Modélisation de l'Utilisateur, Capteurs
Courriel :
Gery.Casiez@inria.fr
Téléphone :
0139635511
Type d'annonceur : Employeur direct