Sep 2026
SAMOVA team seminar, IRIT, Toulouse
Invited seminar presenting my research on virtual reality and bias.
Talks & seminars
Talks & seminars
Invited talks and seminars, then the conference talks and posters I have presented or co-authored, most recent first. Full references are on the Publications page.
Invited
Invited talks & seminars
Oct 2023
Invited talk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Presented the use of virtual reality to improve public speaking skills in a new context, the airline industry.
Sep 2023
Research day at Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille
Presented our research on virtual reality for public speaking training and explored new collaborations, with Michaël Schyns and Sarah Saufnay.
Conferences
Conference talks & posters
Feb 2026
TransNumériques 2026, Rennes
Poster presentation at the national event gathering the French academic community around the opportunities and challenges of the digital continuum.
Dec 2025
Journée Intelligence Artificielle, Interactions Socio-Affectives et Éthiques, Paris
First scientific presentation of my postdoctoral work: Étude des biais de genre dans la collaboration multimodale humain-agent : entre observation et simulation.
Sep 2025
25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'25), Berlin
Poster on the EVE corpus, the final part of my PhD research, and, with Marion Ristorcelli, a poster on multimodal behavioural features for public speaking assessment, from my research stay at Aix-Marseille Université.
Jun 2025
AIRSI 2025 Conference, online
Presented Public Speaking Training in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Explainable Approach for Education and Research, the core of my doctoral journey, co-authored with Michaël Schyns.
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2025
10th International XR-Metaverse Conference, Maastricht
Simulated mock trials in virtual reality: a framework to guide the future of legal education, with Justin Cho, Timothy Jung, Mandy tom Dieck, and Michaël Schyns.
Sep 2024
24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'24), Glasgow
Presented my second first-author paper, a systematic review on the socio-affective perception of virtual agents, and the first paper of my collaboration with Aix-Marseille Université.
Jun 2024
AIRSI 2024 Conference, Zaragoza
Presented the progress of the EVE emotional audiovisual corpus; Sarah Saufnay presented our virtual reality environments for public speaking training.
2024
PEVOC 15 Conference, Santander
Public speaking: acoustic characteristics of voice in giving a speech compared to a reading condition, with Lamia Bettahi, Anne-Lise Leclercq, Michaël Schyns, and Angélique Remacle.
2024
9th International Conference on XR/VR/Metaverse, Busan
Towards a framework for the implementation of virtual reality in legal education and training, with Justin Cho, Michaël Schyns, and Timothy Jung.
2024
Laval Virtual Doctoral Consortium, Laval
The use of virtual reality in public speaking training: design of a dedicated tool, with Sarah Saufnay and Michaël Schyns.
2024
1st RUCHE Interdisciplinary Congress, Liège
Poster and pitch on the creation of EVE, a high-quality audiovisual corpus of emotions, and a poster with Lamia Bettahi on presence, immersion, and anxiety in front of a virtual audience; also chaired the first parallel session on immersive technologies.
2023
Journée ACAI (Plate-forme Intelligence Artificielle), Strasbourg
Intégration d’une base de données EmoVox et de la réalité virtuelle pour l’entraînement à la prise de parole en public.
Jun 2023
8th International XR-Metaverse Conference, Las Vegas
Oral presentation of our collaborative project on virtual reality for mooting, with Timothy Jung, Justin Cho, and Michaël Schyns.
May 2023
MMU Business and Law Doctoral Symposium, Manchester
Poster presentation with Justin Cho of our project on virtual reality simulation in legal education.
2023
AIRSI 2023 Conference, online
EmoVox: creation of a speech database for emotion analysis, with Anne-Lise Leclercq, Angélique Remacle, and Michaël Schyns.
2022
AIRSI 2022 Conference, in the metaverse
Presented our work on the perception of avatars’ attitudes in virtual reality, inside a metaverse venue.
2022
7th International XR/VR/Metaverse Conference, Lisbon
Presented my work on the perception of avatars’ attitudes in virtual reality.
2021
20ème Colloque sur le Marketing Digital, Paris
Comment les utilisateurs d’assistants vocaux maintiennent-ils leur utilisation de la technologie dans le temps ?, with Aurélie Vachaudez, Christophe Koubi, and Gilles Cornelis.
May 2021
Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, online
Presented SpeakInVR and the validation of a virtual audience for public speaking; Pauline Menjot presented the preliminary results of the virtual audience validation.
2020
Groupe de Contact de Psycholinguistique et Neurolinguistique, Brussels
A virtual audience for public speaking: a pilot study, with Pauline Menjot, Angélique Remacle, Michaël Schyns, and Anne-Lise Leclercq.