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<span>The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is looking for an excellent and enthusiastic researcher to join the ESRC-funded international collaborative project "Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences."
This is a new 3-year project which aims to investigate how a social robot can help children cope with potentially painful experiences in a healthcare setting. The system developed in the project will be tested through a hospital-based clinical trial at the
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<div>In Glasgow, we are looking for a researcher with expertise in applying deep neural network models to the automated analysis of multimodal human behaviour, ideally along with experience integrating such systems into an end-to-end interactive system.<br>
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<div>You will be working together with Dr. Mary Ellen Foster in the Glasgow Interactive Systems Section (GIST); you will collaborate closely with Dr. Ron Petrick and his team from the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at Heriot-Watt University, and will also collaborate
with medical and social science researchers at several Canadian universities including University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Ryerson University, McMaster University, and Dalhousie University.<br>
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<div>GIST provides an ideal ground for academic growth. It is the leader of a recently awarded Centre for Doctoral Training that is providing 50 PhD scholarships in the next five years in the area of socially intelligent artificial intelligence. In addition,
its 7 faculty members have accumulated more than 25,000 Scholar citations and have been or are leading large-scale national and European projects (including the ERC Advanced Grant "Viajero", the Network Plus grant "Human Data Interaction", the FET-Open project
"Levitate", and the H2020 project MuMMER) for a total of over £20M in the last 10 years.<br>
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<div>The post is full time with funding up to 27 months in the first instance.<br>
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<div>For more information and to apply online, please see <a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYX734/research-associate" id="LPNoLP999603">
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYX734/research-associate</a>.</div>
<div>Please email MaryEllen.Foster@glasgow.ac.uk with any informal enquiries.</div>
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<div>It is the University of Glasgow’s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment.<br>
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<div>We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equality.<br>
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Dr Mary Ellen Foster, Senior Lecturer in Human-Robot Interaction</div>
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<a href="http://maryellenfoster.uk/">http://maryellenfoster.uk/</a></div>
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