XARPER_RETAIL

About the Project

XARPER RETAIL (XARP Extended Reality for the Retail Industry) is an R&D project by the startup XARP that combines extended reality (XR) technology with artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the retail sector as a whole. Through 3D reconstruction of clothing items and in-store consumer skeletal tracking, AI will be used to infer consumer behavior. XARPER RETAIL aims to create immersive shopping experiences that enhance customer engagement, increase sales, and drive business growth. By integrating XR environments with AI-based analytics, retailers can gain valuable real-time insights into customers’ preferences, behaviors, and shopping patterns, enabling them to optimize product placement, personalize marketing strategies, and improve overall customer satisfaction. XARPER RETAIL represents the future of retail by bringing together the physical and digital worlds, transforming the way consumers shop and interact with brands.

Acronym

XARPER_RETAIL

Responsible

Nelson Bilber Rodrigues

Status

active

Starting Date

January 1, 2025

Ending Date

January 30, 2027

Effective End Date

Global Budget

€394,004.80

Funding

€121,680.56

Website

Datasheet

Members

Team Leaders

Nelson Bilber Rodrigues

Assistant Researcher

Team Members

Lino Oliveira

Area Manager

Nelson Bilber Rodrigues

Assistant Researcher

Dissemination

INESC TEC has a unique and differentiating management model, improved over its 35 years of history. Reflecting its unique position between academia and industry, the management at INESC TEC carefully balances, in a hybrid model, the academic culture of scientific freedom and dialogue with a culture of efficiency and responsibility in management.

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Associated Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.