/*********************************************************** *******************/ /* *PhD in Mobile Robotic Telepresence at Örebro University, Sweden* */ /*********************************************************** *******************/
Örebro University is seeking outstanding candidates for a *PhD position at the * *Center of Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems*. The Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), carries out multi-disciplinary research environment at Örebro University in the intersection of robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision and computer science. *RESEARCH PROJECT * Mobile robotic telepresence is used as a social communication aid for older adults, with remote users steering the robot in its environment using feedback from a robot's sensors. For unfamiliar drivers, this often creates a heavy workload and therefore reduces focus on social interaction. One way to reduce the workload is to introduce adjustable autonomy to assist the remote user in operating the robot. The successful candidate will study how sliding autonomy can be implemented in social robotic telepresence by integrating two complementary issues of non-verbal cues and social norms. Only three questions for a four year project: *1.** How non-verbal cues can be used to automatically adjust autonomy.* *2.** How to modify the behaviour of the robot, when in autonomous mode, to take * *social norms into account. * *3.** How inclusion of social norms in the robot’s behaviour is related to the * *cognitive workload for operating the robot, and the associated Interaction * *Quality.* The researcher will undertake two secondements: (1) an academic secondment to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel; (2) an industrial secondment to Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart, Germany. *SOCRATES* The recruitment is done as part of SOCRATES (SOcial Cognitive Robotic Agents in The European Society), a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network (ETN) comprising 7 universities/research institutes: Umeå University and Örebro University in Sweden, Universität Hamburg and Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart in Germany, CSIC Barcelona in Spain, University West of England, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Additional non-academic partners are: Pal Robotics, Adele Robots, Alfred Nobel Science Park, Urquhart-Dykes & Lord LLP, Center for Digital Innovation, UMINOVA, Asea Brown Boveri, S.A, and Fundació ACE. *CONTACT* Please, contact amy.lou...@oru.se for more details on the position. Application form is available at: /*********************************************************** *******************/ *oru.se/english/working-at-orebro-university/jobs-and-vacancies/job/?jid=20150529 <https://www.oru.se/english/working-at-orebro-university/jobs-and-vacancies/job/?jid=20150529>* /*********************************************************** *******************/
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