Collaboration haptique étroitement couplée pour la déformation moléculaire interactive par Jean Simard

The PhD explore closely coupled collaborative configurations. It presents new haptic communication tools to improve communication and performances of a group.

On the first part of my thesis, I developed a software solution in order to simulate (namd namd Software which can simulate interactions of molecules. ) and to visualize (vmd vmd Software to visualize molecules in three dimensions. ) moleculars interactions. The real-time manipulation of the molecules is achieved with haptic interfaces (PHANToM SensAble PHANToM SensAble Haptic introduce the sens of touch through computer interfaces. ) which are connected to the visualization molecule software (vrpn vrpn Communication programme which allow the connection between a computer and various peripherals like haptic interface, mices, tracking environment or stereoscopic systems... ).

During my second year, I studied and characterized the collaboration in three experimentations of molecular manipulation. We proved the advantages of collaborative work and higlighted the problematics (communication and coordination).

During the third year, I proposed new haptic communication tools in order to improve the communication and the coordination in a group.

The defense takes place on 12th of march 2012 with :

• Jean-Daniel Fekete (chairman)
  Université de Paris-Sud – Pôle Commun de Recherche en Informatique (PCRI)
• Jean-Marie Burkhardt (reviewer)
  Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’Aména- gement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)
• Indira Thouvenin (reviewer)
  Université de Technologie de Compiègne – Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes (Heudiasyc)
• Marc Baaden (examiner)
  Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (LBT)
• Paul Richard (examiner)
  Université d’Angers – Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Automatisés (LISA)
• Abdulmotaleb el Saddik (examiner)
  University of Ottawa – Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab)
• Philippe Tarroux (advisor)
  École Normale Supérieure d’Ulm – Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Mécanique et de Sciences de l’Ingénieur (CNRS-LIMSI)
• Mehdi Ammi (co-advisor)
  Université de Paris-Sud – Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Mécanique et de Sciences de l’Ingénieur (CNRS-LIMSI)