CORVETTE

The CORVETTE project aims at introducing innovative scientific results in the field of industrial training based on virtual reality technologies (maintenance, complex procedures, security, diagnostic, technical gesture, …). The core scientific contribution of the project concerns the mutual synergies between 4 scientific challenges: • Collaborative work dealing with complex scenarios relevant of training activities in industry, including joint physical technical gestures apprenticeship; • Virtual human representing alternatively the avatar of the user or a virtual collaborator during a training session, for pedagogic purposes; • Implicit or explicit communication between a real user (trainee) and a virtual human acting as collaborator; • Advanced evaluation process with sophisticated cognition methodological approach, allowing a patterned qualification of all usability factors; The CORVETTE project is also firmly oriented toward industrial applications. For this perspective, our approach is based on: • An industrial software platform for integration. This platform is developed and marketed by Nexter Training (GVT® : Generic Virtual Training); • Real and critical industrial use cases which are completely documented in our proposition, along with a needs assessment, allowing scientific achievements to be duly tested and valued • External industry users (users group) interested in describing new scenarios and applicative constraints, in order to complement our analysis of industrial needs