The research

SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES

The Digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) aims to fundamentally redefine digital tools for collaboration. Whether it’s to reduce the number of journeys we make, improve territorial networking, or tackle the problems and transformations of the coming decades, the challenges of the 21st century will require us to collaborate at unprecedented speed and scale.

More specifically, the Digital collaboration research program aims to address the following scientific challenges:

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Develop collaborative environments and innovative conceptual models

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Combining human and artificial intelligence in collaborative configurations

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Enable seamless collaborative experiences that promote interoperability

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Supporting the creation of healthy and sustainable communities

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Specifying socio-technical standards with legal/regulatory frameworks

Implementation

Responding to these technological and societal challenges requires a significant investment to develop multidisciplinary work (computer science, ergonomics, cognitive psychology, sociology, design, law, economics) of a theoretical and empirical nature.

The digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) is developing the conditions for interoperability between communication and sharing services to open up “walled gardens”, which require all participants to use the same services. The aim is to enable new players to offer solutions tailored to specific needs and usage contexts. Users will thus be able to choose combinations of potentially “intelligent” tools and services to define mixed physical and digital collaboration spaces that meet their needs, without compromising their ability to exchange with the rest of the world. By making these services more accessible to a wider population, we can help to reduce the digital divide and meet the challenges of digital sovereignty.

TARGETED PROJECTS

To meet these challenges, the Digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) is organized around five targeted projects:

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CATS
TARGETED PROJECT 1
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COLLABORATIVE SPACES

The objective of the CATS project is to design heterogeneous collaboration spaces that allow for continuous and seamless collaboration, unifying remote and face-to-face, tightly coupled and loose collaborations.
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PILOT
TARGETED PROJECT 2
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PRACTICES AND INFRASTRUCTURES FOR LONG-TERM COLLABORATION

The PILOT project draws on new work practices and technological opportunities to design socio-technical systems for long-term collaboration, taking into account regulatory changes and organizational contexts.
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MATCHING
TARGETED PROJECT 3
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COLLABORATION WITH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

The PC3 MATCHING examines and evaluates how one or more intelligent and interactive systems, explicitly present either physically or virtually, induce and promote novel forms of collaboration among humans.
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CONGRATS
TARGETED PROJECT 4
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LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION

The CONGRATS project focuses on open, knowledge-producing online collaboration. It studies the coevolution between platform design and the collectives that use them. It will propose tools for understanding and administering these platforms.
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TRANSVERSE
TARGETED PROJECT 5
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CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF COLLABORATION

The TRANSVERSE project addresses the challenges of digital collaboration on science and society, from a meta and comparative perspective, focusing mainly on methodology, ethics, sustainability and impacts beyond technology at individual, societal and cultural levels.
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ProjeCts

In addition to the targeted projects, four other projects have been selected to taking part of the research program:

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COMCOMBBr

Computational modeling of collaboration and mentalization for benevolent bots

Project leader:
Jean-Claude DREHER, CNRS research director at ISC-MJ

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Data2Laws

Investigating mechanisms for scaling online collectives

Project leader:
Cécile BOTHOREL, lecturer at ENS Mines-Telecom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, Lab-STICC member

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DECO

Physical deformation and collaboration

Project leader:
Céline Coutrix, CNRS research director at LIG

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PRECOG

Prediction for shared cognition in collaboration with human or artificial agents

Project leader:
Ouriel GRYNSZPAN, lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay, LISN member

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PhD program

The PhD program of the Digital Collaboration Research Program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) provides 4 generations of students with the scientific, financial and technological resources to:

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Develop their multidisciplinary knowledge and skills to become experts in digital collaboration

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Joining a dynamic community to collectively address the scientific challenges of digital collaboration

The interdisciplinary of the research program also enables PhD students to work with scientists from all disciplines, opening up new research opportunities beyond their own research discipline.

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