28 February: FYI -- PhD Funding (Aix-Marseille, FR)
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PhD fellowship
Towards a Computational Model of Social Skills for Human-Computer Interaction
Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS
The goal of this project is to develop a computational model of social skills
for multimodal interaction systems. The model will focus more precisely on a
specific context, task oriented dialogues, in which all semantic and pragmatic
aspects are controlled. It will be built by means on different machine
learning methodologies applied to the analysis of natural corpora. This work
will be part of an ongoing project (http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~acorformed/),
aiming at developing a virtual reality system for training doctors to break
bad news, with an embodied conversational agent playing the role of a virtual
patient.
The PhD is organized around 4 main tasks:
- Describing the social skills relevant to the use case, with a specific focus
on empathy and persuasion, through a corpus analysis. This task is done in
collaboration with doctors involved in such training activities.
- Modeling the social skills, by means of machine learning techniques
- Implementing the social skills in the communication environment
- Developing a tool for the automatic evaluation of doctor's skills, adapted
to the training goals
The PhD candidate should have a master's degree completed in one of the fields
below:
- Computer science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Applied mathematics
The candidate should have a strong background in machine learning and modeling
methods. Some complementary previous experience would be appreciated in the
following topics:
- Human-computer interaction
- Multimodal data processing
- Data acquisition
- Corpus-based studies
- Affective computing
- Conversational agents
This fellowship is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND action. It is a
three-year work contract, with a monthly net salary of approximately
1625€/month, a 500€ travel allowance per year between Marseille and the place
of origin, a financial support for international research training and
conferences participations plus a contribution to the research costs of up to
12.600€.
More information here:
https://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/towards-a-computational-model-of-social-skills-
for-human-computer-interaction-so-human
For any question, contact Philippe Blache or
Magalie Ochs .
Application Deadline: 09-Apr-2018
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Dr Philippe Blache
5 Avenue Pasteur
Aix-en-Provence 13100
France
Web Address for Applications: https://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/towards-a-computational-model-of-social-skills-for-human-computer-interaction-so-human
Contact Information:
Dr Philippe Blache
blache@lpl-aix.fr
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