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<font face="Helvetica" style="color:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Heriot-Watt
University in Edinburgh is looking for an experienced Research Fellow to lead a body of work looking at trust and how it manifests in language and human-robot interaction. This work will be part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node on Trust, with
collaborators the University of Manchester and Imperial College London, researching into how trust can form between robots and humans through interaction (see</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">
</span><a href="http://trust.tas.ac.uk/"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,238); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">http://trust.tas.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,238); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">for more details). The successful applicant will be based at our Edinburgh, UK campus and be affiliated with the Edinburgh Centre
of Robotics, the new National Robotarium opening in early 2022 and the Interaction Lab. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The role will include using the latest
machine learning methods to model dialogue and predict trust, moving towards intelligent conversational systems and social robots that can detect and adapt to fluctuations in user</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif">
trust. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">The
role will also involve evaluations with human subjects in realistic scenarios. For further details and to apply see
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