Internationally recognized generalist engineering school of the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom), leading French engineering school (Technological University), IMT Atlantique aims to support transitions, train responsible engineers, and use scientific excellence to serve teaching, research, and innovation. 

The Department of Social Sciences draws on the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of researchers in economics, sociology, management sciences and law. The researcher will be member of LEGO laboratory. The laboratory brings together researchers in economics and management in West Brittany, from Vannes to Brest. It operates under the triple supervision of Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Université de Bretagne Sud and IMT Atlantique.

The MODU project aims to measure emotions in online collaborative discussions, focusing on how emotional context influences knowledge production in virtual teams. By analyzing textual data from platforms like Wikipedia and Debian, the project seeks to understand the impact of emotions on cooperation and productivity. It addresses key challenges such as limited contextual information (interactions through text production only), precise emotion measurement in that context, and linking emotional states and expression to knowledge/information creation events. The project combines two broad streams of studies. On the one hand, we will rely on managerial and communication studies to theorize overall organizational behavior in such a realm. On the other hand, we adopt natural language processing approaches as well as mixed methods to gather and analyze data, but also to deliver actionable recommendations for participants for supervising and enhancing virtual team dynamics.

The findings will provide insights for managers to foster positive collaboration and prevent toxic behaviors in online communities as well as fostering the comprehension of Online Open Collaborative Communities (OOCCs). The post-doctoral project is part of the PEPR eNSEMBLE’s targeted sub-project CONGRATS as it aligns with Task 4.2.2 Community health, affect and cohesiveness.