🎙️ WordsArts et Métiers .20 - Jean-Rémy Chardonnet

Background 

In ParolesArts et Métiers, we talk about industry, innovation, transitions, health, materials, new technologies, and many other topics related to engineering sciences and Arts et Métiers. Everyone in the Arts et Métiers community—students, staff, and alumni—is involved in the adventure. In each episode, designed and hosted by Carole Wahnoun, a research engineer on the Paris campus, with technical support from Jean-Marc Rousseau, Multimedia Designer and Producer at ICIFTech, we take the time to discuss an important topic related to Arts et Métiers with a new guest.

Podcast introduction

In this twentieth episode, we will be discussing virtual reality with Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, Deputy Director of the Arts et Métiers Institute Arts et Métiers Chalon-sur-Saône, who will introduce us to the institute, his work as a teacher-researcher studying interactions in virtual environments and the effects of immersive technologies on humans, as well as his other roles withinArts et Métiers.  

Highlights 

• The Arts et Métiers Institute Arts et Métiers Chalon-sur-Saône
• Analysis of interaction in virtual reality  
• The Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation Program (PEIT) at the Cluny campus
• A research leave in Germany
• The Franco-German Institute for the Industry of the Future (Arts et Métiers Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 

Biography of Jean-Rémy Chardonnet

Jean-Rémy Chardonnet's career spans several areas of expertise and activities.  

Holder of a Master of Science in Mechatronics from the ENSMM Engineering School (now SUPMICROTECH) in Besançon and a PhD in Humanoid Robotics from the University of Montpellier II (LIRMM) completed in Tsukuba (Japan) with the Joint Robotics Laboratory (CNRS and AIST). From 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Institute for Information Management in Engineering.  

In 2020, he is pursuing a Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) in Automation at the Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France (LAMIH).

Deputy Director of the Arts et Métiers Institute Arts et Métiers Chalon-sur-Saône, Jean-Rémy Chardonnet is a full professor at Arts et Métiers , alongside Lionel Roucoules, a lecturer and researcher at the Aix-en-Provence campus, Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Engineering for Physical and Digital Systems (LISPEN) (EA 7515).  

His research focuses on virtual reality, particularly multimodal, personalized, and collaborative interaction in a virtual environment, with an interest in human factors (cyber discomfort, perception).

Jean-Rémy Chardonnet is head of the Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation Program (PEIT) at the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny and the Franco-German Institute for the Industry of the Future, supported by Arts et Métiers Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In this context, he is involved in the creation of a Franco-German GENIUS (Next Generation Industry) chair, which aims to promote the development of tomorrow's industry in Europe towards a more sustainable and resilient model, through four strategic areas: immersive technologies for collaborative design and virtual validation, advanced manufacturing processes and remanufacturing, optimization and reconfiguration of production systems, and the circular economy. 

References

• Chalon-sur-Saône Institute Arts et Métiers
• Laboratory of Physical and Digital Systems Engineering – LISPEN
• Jean-Rémy Chardonnet - LinkedIn Profile
• Jean-Rémy Chardonnet - Research profile
• Scientific launch of the Franco-German GENIUS chair in Bordeaux: a strategic lever for a sustainable European industry | Arts et métiers
• Genius, an academic collaboration within the French-German Institute for the Industry of the Future
• French-German Institute for the Industry of the Future
• A. Hadadi, J.-R. Chardonnet, C. Guillet, and J. Ovtcharova, " SmartSimVR: An Architecture Integrating Machine Learning and Virtual Environment for Real-Time Simulation Adaptation," in 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA), Athens, Greece: IEEE, Feb. 2024, pp. 531–535. doi: 10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10553156.
• E. Minder, S. Neyret, S. Fleury, C. Guillet, and J.-R. Chardonnet, " Optimizing social interactions in VR," Int. J. Virtual Real., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 32–37, Apr. 2025.
• A. Kemeny, J.-R. Chardonnet, and F. Colombet, Getting Rid of Cybersickness: In Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Simulators. Springer International Publishing, 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59342-1.
• A. Mayer, J.-R. Chardonnet, P. Häfner, and J. Ovtcharova, "Collaborative Work Enabled by Immersive Environments," in New Digital Work: Digital Sovereignty at the Workplace, E. A. Hartmann and A. Shajek, eds., Springer International Publishing, 2023, pp. 87–117. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-26490-0_6. 

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