<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Call for Multiple PhD positions in Human-Machine Interaction funded by the ANIMATAS Innovative Training Network </b></div></div><div class=""><br class="">ANIMATAS (MSCA – ITN – 2017 - 765955 2) is a H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network funded by Horizon 2020 (the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation), coordinated by Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ANIMATAS partners are: UPMC (coord.), Uppsala Univ., Institut Mines Telecom, KTH, EPFL, INESC-ID, Jacobs Univ. and SoftBank Robotics Europe.</div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Scientific and technical objectives</b><br class=""><br class="">ANIMATAS focuses on the following objectives:<br class=""><br class="">1) Exploration of fundamental questions relating to the interconnections between robots and virtual characters’ appearance, behaviours and perception by people<br class=""><br class="">2) Development of new social learning mechanisms that can deal with different types of human intervention and allow robots and virtual characters to learn in an unconstrained manner <br class=""><br class="">3) Development of new approaches for robots and virtual characters’ personalised adaptation to human users in unstructured and dynamically evolving social interactions </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Multiple Positions in Human-Machine Interaction: </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">15 early-stage researchers (ESR) positions of 36 months are available within ANIMATAS. The successful candidates will participate in the network’s training activities offered by the European academic and industrial participating teams. The successful candidate will be have the opportunity to work with Interactive Robotics, Furhat Robotics, Mobsya, University of Wisconsin- Madison, University of Southern California,<span class="" style="font-size: small;"> </span>Immersion SAS, IDMind, Trinity College Dublin. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Details and specific deadlines are available at <a href="http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/" class="">http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 1 - Social context effects on expressive behaviour of embodied systems</div><div class="">Contact: Arvid Kappas (Jacobs Uni)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:a.kappas@jacobs-university.de" class="">a.kappas@jacobs-university.de</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 2 - Modeling communicative behaviours for different roles of pedagogical agents</div><div class="">Contact: Catherine Pelachaud (UPMC)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr" class="">catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 3 - Modeling trust in human-robot educational interactions</div><div class="">Contact: Ginevra Castellano (UU)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se" class="">ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 4 - Synthesis of Multi-Modal Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction</div><div class="">Contact: Amir Pandey (SBR)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:akpandey@softbankrobotics.com" class="">akpandey@softbankrobotics.com</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 5 - Socially compliant behaviour modelling for artificial systems and small groups of teachers and learners</div><div class="">Contact: Christopher Peters (KTH)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:chpeters@kth.se" class="">chpeters@kth.se</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 6 - Teacher orchestration of child-robot interaction</div><div class="">Contact: Pierre Dillenbourg (EPFL)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch" class="">pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 7 - Which mutual-modelling mechanisms to optimize child-robot interaction</div><div class="">Contact: Pierre Dillenbourg (EPFL)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch" class="">pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch</a> <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 9 - Learning from and about humans for robot task learning</div>Contact: Mohamed Chetouani (UPMC)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr" class="">mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr</a> <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 10 - Let’s Learn by Collaborating with Robots</div><div class="">Contact: Francisco Melo (INESC-ID)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:fmelo@inesc-id.pt" class="">fmelo@inesc-id.pt</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 11 - Disfluencies and teaching strategies in social interactions between a pedagogical agent and a student</div><div class="">Contact: Chloé Clavel (IMT)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:chloe.clavel@telecom-paristech.fr" class="">chloe.clavel@telecom-paristech.fr</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PhD 12 - Automatic assessment of engagement during multi-party interactions</div><div class="">Contact: Pierre Dillenbourg (EPFL)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch" class="">pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 13 - Automatic synthesis and instantiation of proactive behaviour by robot during human robot interaction: going beyond just being active or reactive</div><div class="">Contact: Amit Pandey (SBR)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:akpandey@softbankrobotics.com" class="">akpandey@softbankrobotics.com</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 14 - Socio-affective effects on the degree of human-robot cooperation</div><div class="">Contact: Ana Paiva (INESC-ID)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:ana.paiva@inesc-id.pt" class="">ana.paiva@inesc-id.pt</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESR 15 - Adaptive self-other similarity in facial appearance and behaviour for facilitating cooperation between humans and artificial systems</div><div class="">Contact: Christopher Peters (KTH).<br class=""><a href="mailto:chpeters@kth.se" class="">chpeters@kth.se</a> <br class=""><p class=""><strong class="">Requirements:</strong></p><p class="">To apply, candidates must submit their CV, a letter of application, two letters of reference and academic credentials to the recruitment committee, Mohamed Chetouani (network coordinator), Ana Paiva and Arvid Kappas at <a href="mailto:contact-animatas@listes.upmc.fr" class="">contact-animatas@listes.upmc.fr</a> and to the main supervisor of the research project of interest.</p><div class="">Please note that different deadlines of applications occur and are detailed here : <a href="http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/" class="">http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reviewing and selection of applications will start in October 2017. <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The positions will remain open until filled. </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The application procedure will be carried out in compliance with the Code of Conduct for Recruitment of the European Charter and Code for Researchers.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="">Contacts:</b></div><div class="">Mohamed CHETOUANI (ANIMATAS Coord.)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr" class="">mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Emily MOTU (Project Manager)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:emily.motu@upmc.fr" class="">emily.motu@upmc.fr</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/" class="">http://animatas.isir.upmc.fr/</a> </div></div></div><div class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Mohamed Chetouani<br class="">Université Pierre et Marie Curie<br class="">Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique<br class="">UMR7222<br class=""><br class="">Pyramide – Tour 55<br class="">Boîte courrier 173<br class="">4 Place Jussieu<br class="">75252 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE<br class=""><br class="">Tel : (33) 01 44 27 63 08<br class="">Fax : (33) 01 44 27 44 38<br class="">Email : <a href="mailto:Mohamed.Chetouani@upmc.fr" class="">Mohamed.Chetouani@upmc.fr</a><br class=""><a href="http://people.isir.upmc.fr/chetouani/" class="">people.isir.upmc.fr/chetouani/</a> <br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>