Salima Hassas is Full Professor in Computer Sciences at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She has coordinated the ANR Labcom Behaviors.ai (2017-2020) on developmental approaches for Social Robotics and is currently PI of the Ethics.ai (AURA Pack Ambition Recherche 2018-2022) on Learning Ethical behaviours by Autonomous Agents. She has also coordinated partnerships with companies (UBIANT, Orange Labs, Hoomano, Naver Labs) and participated in collaborative projects (IFSTTAR) on topics related to “Socially Intelligent ICT Systems” mixing humans and autonomous agents, where developmental learning and Social Artificial Intelligence approaches are investigated.

Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre is an Associate Professor in German Linguistics at University Lumière Lyon 2. She has coordinated together with colleagues projects in conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, mostly related to gaming interaction and technological devices. She also participates in collaborative projects exploring innovative methodologies and complexity of interaction (BODEGA, INTERJEUX). Her expertise is in the field of multimodal interaction analysis, particularly in interactions with technological devices, stance taking and the construction of participation frameworks.

Frédéric Armetta is an Associate Professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He is an expert in developmental approaches using neural network architectures and deep learning. He is also knowledgeable in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Pentti Haddington is Professor of English language in the Research Unit for Languages and Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is also director for GenZ and one of the PIs in the COACT community. He is interested in how participants talk, use their bodies and other multimodal resources as part of their everyday social activities. He is currently doing research and leading funded projects on talk and multimodal interaction in digital and technological settings, interactional multitasking and multinational crisis management training.

Carole Etienne is a CNRS Research Engineer. Her expertise is situated in the fields of multimodal databases and modeling interactions in terms of pragmatics and verbal/multimodal resources. She also leads different projects concerning the learning of French with the help of interactions.

Erwan Guillou is an Associate Professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He is an expert in Image Processing and Interpretation, with a particular interest in motion tracking and gesture identification from fixed and mobile cameras.

Florence Oloff is an Assistant Professor in Multimodal Interaction and Discourse at the Faculty of Humanities (Univ. of Oulu). She has been working on fundamental communication practices in different languages. As PI of the research project Smart Communication, she is currently investigating how mundane technology is used in and impacts face-to-face interaction.

Isabel Colón de Carvajal is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the ENS of Lyon. She is an expert in the field of multimodal interaction analysis with a particular interest in interactions with technological devices. In her research she combines qualitative and quantitative methods.

Justine Lascar is a CNRS Engineer. Her expertise is situated in the field of conception, digitalisation, transcription and management of complex audio-visual data.

Laëtitia Matignon is an Associate Professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is an expert in Reinforcement Learning (RL and DeepRL) and unsupervised Machine Learning models based on Intrinsic Motivation.

Lydia Heiden is a doctoral student (CIFRE) under the supervision of Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre and Matthieu Quignard. Her PhD thesis deals with multimodal alignment in a cooperative video game which is destined for the automatic detection of soft skills.

Mathieu Lefort is an Associate Professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He is an expert in multimodal perception with a particular interest in neuro-computational approaches and developmental learning.

Matthieu Quignard is a CNRS Research Engineer. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Sciences and has an expertise in natural language processing (and particularly in human-machine interactions) and mixed methodologies, integrating quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Saida Bouakaz is Full Professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is an expert in Image Processing, Computer vision, motion tracking and gesture identification from fixed and mobile cameras as well as interpretation of posture and the recognition of body and facial expressions.

Samira Ibnelkaïd is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (“Smart Communication” Project). Her expertise is within the fields of Visual Ethnography, Multimodal Interaction Analysis and Phenomenology and sheds light on the complex and renewed intersubjective practices of techno-bodily presence enacted in digitally artifacted interactions.

Antoine Bouquin is an R&D Engineer on a temporary contract for the CNRS. He works for the LIRIS lab in the SyCoSMA team. He is charged with the task of developing the initial Pepper Software, that will be used for the rest of the PepperMint project.

Lucien Tisserand is a multimodal conversation analyst. He has conducted applied research in the health care domain. He is interested in exploring how the specificities of each interactional setting are implemented through linguistic and embodied resources.