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<p class="MsoNormal">A four-year fully funded PhD student position is available as a collaboration between Utrecht University and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this PhD project, you will investigate how to generate nonverbal behaviours (face, gaze, gestures) for virtual humans using motion capture and virtual reality technologies, statistics and machine learning, computational modeling and
experimental design. The project will break into new grounds on the one hand on how human like multimodal interactive communicative behavior can be simulated with 3D virtual humans and on the other hand will investigate whether such features enhance their
realism, facilitate and ease humans’ interaction with them. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Successful candidates must hold a Master’s degree in Computer Graphics/Animation, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, or related fields (or graduation from one within the next months).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More information and official link for application can be found at
<a href="https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/phd-position">https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/phd-position</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Deadline: March 30<sup>th</sup> 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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Dr. Zerrin Yumak | Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing,<br>
Founding member of the Departmental Diversity Committee,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL"><a href="https://www.uu.nl/mocapvrlab"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.uu.nl/mocapvrlab</span></a></span> |
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<p class="MsoNormal">Utrecht University | Department of Information and Computing
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Sciences | Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht | Buys Ballot Building room 4.20 <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">|+31 30 253 7578 | <span lang="NL"><a href="mailto:z.yumak@uu.nl"><span lang="EN-US">z.yumak@uu.nl</span></a></span>
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|<span lang="NL"><a href="http://www.zerrinyumak.com/"><span lang="EN-US">www.zerrinyumak.com</span></a></span>| Twitter: @zerrinyumak<o:p></o:p></p>
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