GREYC - Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement - GR (Principal Contractor - France)     Contact person for the project: Prof. Nugues Pierre     The role of GREYC in the Consortium is to offer both the technical expertise required for the development of the Social Phobia module and the clinical expertize required for its clinical testing. In particular GREYC: - will assist the consortium in addressing the ergonomic issues related to the development of the VR modules; - will develop the Social Phobia module; - will test its efficacy on both clinical and non-clinical samples; - will define an integrated protocol for its use; - will test the efficacy of the Eating Disorders module on both clinical and non-clinical samples. GREYC is a laboratory common to Institut des Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement and Université de Caen. GREYC is affiliated with the French CNRS (UPRESA 6072). GREYC has four main research activities in Algorithmics, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, and Instrumentation: - Algorithmics research is centered on combinatorics and complexity. The group's application field is on information safety and protection. It is also working on various kinds of modelling. - Image processing research is centred on 3D modelling, knowledge integration for image processing. It uses PET and MRI brain images and finds applications within the framework of a French national project on the functional mapping of the brain. This team has also a project in visualisation techniques for interaction. - Instrumentation is specialised in high sensitivity sensors. - Within the artificial intelligence group, natural language processing is the   core research theme. GREYC is working notably on parsing, semantics, intention       and has developed several parsers for French and other languages. GREYC is working on spoken dialogue and multimedia interaction and has developed several dialogue prototypes in French and German. Participation to national and European projects GREYC participates or has participated to French concerted research programmes: - GDR PRC 134 "ISIS" (Information, Signal et Images) - GDR "Modélisation de l'information géographique CASSINI" - PRC "Sciences cognitives", - PRC "Intelligence artificielle", - PRC "Mathématiques et Informatique" puis GDR PRC AMI (Algorithmique, Modèles, Infographie) - Projets inter PRC : C4, classes polynomiales - Groupe d'Etudes sur les Composants Supraconducteurs pour l'Electronique (GECSE). GREYC was part of the COST-14 Consortium on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). COST-14 focuses notably on virtual reality environments for CSCW. GREYC's task in this consortium was to survey linguistic tools in such environments. At this occasion, our team at GREYC has implemented an interactive dialogue prototype to enable spoken navigation in a virtual environment. GREYC is also part of the Telematics project aiming at treating eating disorders with virtual reality techniques VREPAR-2. (End 31 May 1999). Researchers (SELECTED list) GREYC has a total of 45 faculty members and 60 PhD students. Daniel Bloyet is the head of the laboratory, Jean-Luc Lambert is vice-director, Brigitte Vallée is responsible for Algorithmics, Marinette Revenu for Image processing, Patrice Enjalbert for Artificial intelligence, Didier Robbes for Intrumentation. Five faculty members are working in natural language processing Bruno Crémilleux, Patrice Enjalbert, Anne Nicolle, Pierre Nugues, Jacques Vergne. Three faculty members on document processing (text retrieval) and Geographical Information Systems: Mauro Gaio, Hervé Le Crosnier, and Jacques Madelaine. Bernard Victorri from the Linguistics department is also actively participating to GREYC. Nine faculty members are working in image processing and 3D modelling in a team headed by Marinette Revenu. Three faculty members are working on agent technology in a team headed by F. Bourdon. GREYC will be supported in the VEPSY project by the efforts of Prof. Patrick Légeron, psychiatrist and well known expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders, expecially social phobia. Past president of the French Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Légeron is also editor-in-chief of the "Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive - JTCC". Professor Legeron's equipe includes two psychologists, Francoise Lauer and Stephan Roy.     Recent papers     ANDRÉ, C., LÉGERON, P., La peur des autres: trac, timiditè et phobie sociale [Fear of other: shyness and social phobia]. Paris: Editions Odile Jacob. BERSOT O., EL GUEDJ P.-O., GODÉREAUX C., & NUGUES P., A Conversational Agent to Help navigation and Collaboration in Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, 3(1):71-82, 1998. C. GODÉREAUX, P.O. EL-GUEDJ, F. REVOLTA, & P. NUGUES, Ulysse: An Interactive, Spoken Dialogue Interface to Navigate in Virtual Worlds, Lexical, syntactic, and semantic issues, in: Virtual Worlds on the Internet, John Vince and Ray Earnshaw (Eds), Chapter 4, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 1999, pp. 53-70 & 308-312. P.-M. NUGUES, Two-dimensional Electrophoresis Image Interpretation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 40, No 8, pp. 760-770, August 1993. C. GODÉREAUX, K. DIEBEL, P.O. EL-GUEDJ, F. REVOLTA, & P. NUGUES, An Interactive, Spoken Dialog Interface in Virtual Worlds, in: Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW, John H. Connolly and Lyn Pemberton (Eds), Chapter 13, Springer, London, 1996, pp. 177-200. F. TABORDET, F. PIED, & P. NUGUES, Delegating and Synchronising Actions from Natural Language Texts in a Virtual Environment, in: Proceedings of Collaborative Virtual Environments 1998, CVE'98, University of Manchester, June 1998, pp. 141-142.