Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

Inria@SiliconValley

Associate Team involved in the International Lab:

DECibel

• Title: Discover, Express, Create – Interaction Technologies For Creative Collaboration

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • University of California Berkeley (United States) - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research - Bjoern Hartmann

• Start year: 2016

• The DECibel associated team includes Inria's ExSitu and the CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative (CCI) at UC Berkeley. ExSitu explores extreme interaction, working with creative professionals and scientists who push the limits of technology to develop novel interactive technologies that offer new strategies for creative exploration. ExSitu's research activities include: developing underlying theory (co-adaptive instruments and substrates), conducting empirical studies (participatory design with creative professionals), and implementing interactive systems (creativity support tools). The CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative investigates collaborative discovery and design through new technologies that enhance education, creative work, and public engagement. It develops interactive tools, techniques and materials for the rapid design and prototyping of novel interactive products, expertise sharing among designers, and citizen science investigations. DECibel will combine the strengths of these two groups to to investigate novel tools and technologies that support Discovery, Expressivity, and Creativity.