SHARESPACE

SHARESPACE Project

CORDIS Reference	Start date	End date	Coordinator	Project website
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101092889	01/01/2023	31/12/2025	DFKI	https://sharespace.eu/

Project description

Extended reality (XR) is an emerging technology with promising potential in many areas, but several limitations must be overcome to enrich the interactive experience for users. The EU-funded SHARESPACE project aims to establish a novel prototype for a socially interactive avatar and/or agent based on human sensorimotor communication. It will capture natural body movements, facial expressions and hand gestures to compile an array of sensorimotor primitives: these will aid the design of AI-based architecture of a fully mobile human rendering with customisable characteristics. SHARESPACE will validate the prototype in three real-life situations of shared hybrid spaces involving human and artificial agents in the fields of health, sport and art

Project outputs

Publications

Domain	Type of output	Title	DOI URL
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Conference proceedings	The Unfaithful Copy: Performed AI ‘Personhood’in Mixed Reality Platforms	https://doi.org/10.32040/2242-122X.2024.T432
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Conference proceedings	Demonstrating the effectiveness of combining heuristic and data-driven methods to achieve scalable and adaptive motion styles	https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00144
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Conference proceedings	Rendering Togetherness: Embodied Social Synchronization in Multi-User VR	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR67309.2025.00079
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Conference proceedings	Learning-based cognitive architecture for enhancing coordination in human groups	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.06297
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Conference proceedings	Control- Tutored Deep Reinforcement Learning	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.01343
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Other	Continuification Control of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems Under Limited Sensing and Structural Perturbations	https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2303.13246
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Other	Data-driven design of complex network structures to promote synchronization	https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2309.10941
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Other	Local convergence of multi-agent systems towards triangular patterns	https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2303.11865
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Peer reviewed articles	Local Convergence of Multi-Agent Systems Toward Rigid Lattices	https://doi.org/10.1109/lcsys.2023.3289060
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Peer reviewed articles	Guaranteeing Control Requirements via Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning	https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.10026
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Peer reviewed articles	Kinematic priming of action predictions	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.055
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science	Peer reviewed articles	Action prediction in psychosis	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-023-00429-x.
Computer Vision, 3D Modeling & Rendering	Conference proceedings	Improving Image Reconstruction using Incremental PCA-Embedded Convolutional Variational Auto- Encoder	https://doi.org/10.24132/10.24132/CSRN.3401.12
Ethics, Society, Arts & Culture	Book chapters	Five Reality Types: The Embedded Ethicist in VR and Mixed-Reality Platforms	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1154-6_9
Extended Reality (VR/AR/MR) & HCI	Conference proceedings	Multi - Modal Signal Processing for Avatar Motion Adaptation	https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP65409.2025.11075085
Healthcare, Medicine & Accessibility	Peer reviewed articles	The emerging role of virtual reality as an adjunct to procedural sedation and anesthesia	https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12030843
Healthcare, Medicine & Accessibility	Peer reviewed articles	Data-driven architecture to encode information in the kinematics of robots and artificial avatars	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.06557
Robotics, Manufacturing & Industry 4.0	Other	eXtended Reality of socio-motor interactions: Current Trends and Ethical Considerations for Mixed Reality Environments Design	https://doi.org/10.1145/3610661.361798
Robotics, Manufacturing & Industry 4.0	Peer reviewed articles	Distributed control for geometric pattern formation of large-scale multirobot systems	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.14567

Technological assets

Domain	Title	Type of Asset	Link / DOI	Description
Digital, Industry & Space	CT-DQN: Control-Tutored Deep Reinforcement Learning	AI Model / Software	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.01343	Code base and model architecture for a control-tutored deep reinforcement learning methodology.
Digital, Industry & Space	Deep Space Starter Kit	Software	https://github.com/ArsElectronicaFuturelab/UE-DeepSpace-Starter	The Deep Space Starter Kit is an Unreal Engine template includes all configurations to quickly start a new project for this specific space. This plug-in is compatible with Unreal Engine 5.7.
Culture, creativity	pharus	Plug-in	https://github.com/ArsElectronicaFuturelab/UE-DeepSpace-PharusLasertracking	The pharus tracking system is developed by researcher and artist Otto Naderer from the Ars Electronica Futurelab. This tracking system allows for the locations of objects, people, or groups to be tracked on the Deep Space floor.
Culture, creativity	Deep Sync Infrastructure	Plug-in	https://github.com/ArsElectronicaFuturelab/UE-DeepSpace-DeepSync https://github.com/ArsElectronicaFuturelab/DeepSync-Wearable-Server https://github.com/ArsElectronicaFuturelab/DeepSync-Wearable-Firmware	The Deep Sync Infrastructure brings biodata to the co-immersive Deep Space 8K. It includes the development of custom-made wearables and an Unreal Engine plug-in.
Culture, creativity	Cognitive Architectures	Plug-ins	https://sharespace.eu/cognitive-architectures/	Within SHARESPACE, cognitive architectures were designed, developed, and validated by SHARESPACE partner CRdC to drive the movement of virtual characters with different levels of autonomization.
Culture, creativity	Pixel Streaming Service	Plug-in	https://github.com/ALE-Rainbow/sharespace-pixel-streaming-infrastructure	WebRTC enables direct peer-to-peer audio connections that avoid the mixing delays inherent in centralized voice systems. A mesh network architecture allows multiple P2P connections between emitters and receivers, minimizing latency while maintaining audio quality.
Culture, creativity	Web Client-Server Bundle	Plug-in	https://github.com/ALE-Rainbow/sharespace-pixel-streaming-cpp-service	The project delivered a web client-server bundle that could be hosted either locally or in ALE cloud with connectors for direct connection with XR applications.
Culture, creativity	Avatar Replication in Shared Environments	Plug-in	https://github.com/CYENS/virtual-share-space	A unified multi-user platform was developed in Unreal Engine 5 by the team of Cyens, allowing distributed clients to connect and interact within shared virtual environments.