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Yann Glémarec

Associate Professor University of Brest, Lab-STICC UMR 6285, France 🔎 ORCID

💡 About me

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Brest, France, and a member of the INUIT team at Lab-STICC. My primary research focus is on haptic technologies designed to augment users’ experiences in immersive media. Accordingly, I conduct various perceptual studies and develop hardware prototypes. In parallel, I also investigate the development of multimodal interactions with virtual agents to support collaboration in mixed reality.

Projects

During my doctoral research, I worked on intelligent virtual agents and virtual reality simulations for education and exposure therapy (see STAGE project). I am currently involved in a project exploring user augmentation through haptic technologies, including the perception of strength in virtual reality via vibrotactile feedback and enhanced narrative engagement through multimodal feedback.

📚 Teaching

Lectures

  • Virtual reality: Presence et Immersion, embodiment, agency, copresence; ENIB & Univ Brest, Brest, France
  • Engagement dans les jeux (Engagement in games); ENIB, Brest ,France ogirinal lecture by Anne-Gwenn Bosser
  • Introduction to haptic technologies; ENIB, Brest, France created with the help of Ferran Argelaguet

Labs

  • Object-oriented programming (Java OOP); ENIB & Univ Brest, Brest, France
  • Introduction to game engines (part of the game design course); SIIA Master (UBO, ENIB, IMT Atlantique)
  • Multidisciplinary project (Computer science, robotics, and embedded programming), leading the computer science side, developing a user interface, and the communication protocols to communicate (wi-fi, Bluetooth) with an autonomous robot (finite state machines) (ENIB)
  • Bachelor’s technical projects (reponsible for the HCI and Networking features); Univ. Brest, France
  • Basic algorithm in C (2nd year of Bachelor); Univ. Brest, Brest, France
  • Software engineering (shared labs to all Masters); Univ. Brest, France

Student Supervision

  • Jessica Topel (Master thesis HCI Group): supporting me on my thesis, enhancing the animation pipeline for virtual reality.
  • Florian Wellmeyer, Lucas Brand, Fergal Iquel (ENIB): MPEG standard communication with a universal robot, programming of proxemic behaviors, virtual agent navigation, and IK in virtual reality.
  • Paul Cagniat, Tien Đung, Léna Vigne (UBO Master SIIA): developing a digital twin of Brest populated with virtual agents, integrating UE5 AI tools to program bots for a student bot believability contest.
  • Daryl Vassalo (Erasmus Intership with the Sea-EU Alliance): Haptic Interactive Media Design for Short Animated Movies and Games

HAL Publication

You can freely access my publications on HAL, a multidisciplinary open archive for sharing published and unpublished research results.

See HAL, science ouverte .

More

  • Publicity chair member or IEEE VR 2025 in Saint-Malo, France
  • Co-organizing the global game jam in Brest, France. (2019 and 2021)

Contact Details

Email: yann.glemarec@univ-brest.fr

Office: Dpt Informatique, Lab-STICC (UMR 6285) UFR Sciences et Techniques 20 av. Victor Le Gorgeu, 29200 BREST