Since 1999, Jean-Claude Martin is an associate professor at the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI-CNRS), Orsay France.
He received the PhD degree in Computer Science in 1995 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST, Paris). He is head of the Conversational Agents thematic team created in 2003 within the Architecture and Models for Interaction Group (AMI) at LIMSI-CNRS. He is also associated to the LINC laboratory, University Paris 8.
He is and has been local scientific leader at LIMSI for several European research projects related to multimodal communication such as: HUMAINE Network of Excellence (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions) funded by the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (2004-2008), IST-NICE (Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment) which features multimodal input, Embodied Conversational Agents, Wizard of Oz, educational games (2002-2005), IST-ISLE (International Standards for Language Engineering) which studied multimodal corpora, coding schemes for multimodal behaviour, surveys and guidelines (2001-2003).
Jean-Claude Martin's research focuses on the study of cooperation between modalities both in human communication and human-computer interaction. His research programme about multimodal communication includes a typology of cooperation between modalities (TYCOON), the creation / annotation / analysis of corpora of multimodal human-human and human computer interactions (Wizard of Oz, TV news), the modelling of relations between emotions and multimodal behaviour, the design of bi-directional multimodal interfaces featuring the specification of cooperation between input modalities and design of a multimodal fusion engine (e.g. speech and 2D gestures) and output modalities (e.g. TYCOON mark-up language for the specification of 2D embodied conversational agents in the Limsi Embodied 2D Agents), evaluation methodologies for multimodal interfaces and application to user interfaces for education applications (game, technical instructions, autism). He is currently co-directing 3 PhD students on the following topics: "Conception and evaluation of bi-directional multimodal conversational agents", "Modelling relations between annotated multimodal behaviours and emotions for the detection and synthesis of emotional behaviour in HCI", "Human-Computer Interfaces for Autistic People".
He is a member of the Programme Committee of several conferences and workshops including: International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’2005), Interspeech’2005, IHM’2005, the tutorial and research workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS'04), the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL'04), the AAMAS'04 workshop on "Embodied Conversational Agents: Balanced Perception and Action", the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'2003). He has reviewed papers for the Journal of HCI, the International Journal of Speech Technology, the French Journal on Cognitive Sciences (InCognito), the French Journal on Human-Computer Interaction (RIHM).
He has co-organized two international workshops at the Language and Resources Evaluation Conference (LREC) on "Multimodal Language Resources" in May 2002 and May 2004.