[iva] PhD Position in Human-Machine Interaction, Aix Marseille Université, France

[Magalie Ochs]

*PhD fellowship*
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/Towards a Computational Model of Social Skills for Human-Computer 
Interaction/
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Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS

 >>> Deadline for application: *April 9th, 2018*

The goal of this project is to develop a computational model of social 
skills for multimodal interaction systems. The model will focus more 
precisely on a specific context, task oriented dialogues, in which all 
semantic and pragmatic aspects are controlled. It will be built by means 
on different machine learning methodologies applied to the analysis of 
natural corpora. This work will be part of an ongoing project 
(http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~acorformed/ 
<http://www.lpl-aix.fr/%7Eacorformed/>), aiming at developing a virtual 
reality system for training doctors to break bad news, with an embodied 
conversational agent playing the role of a virtual patient.

The PhD is organized around 4 main tasks:

  * Describing the social skills relevant to the use case, with a
    specific focus on empathy and persuasion, through a corpus analysis.
    This task is done in collaboration with doctors involved in such
    training activities.
  * Modeling the social skills, by means of machine learning techniques
  * Implementing the social skills in the communication environment
  * Developing a tool for the automatic evaluation of doctor's skills,
    adapted to the training goals


The PhD candidate should have a master's degree completed in one of the 
fields below:

  * Computer science
  * Artificial Intelligence
  * Natural language processing
  * Applied mathematics

The candidate should have a strong background in machine learning and 
modeling methods. Some complementary previous experience would be 
appreciated in the following topics:

  * Human-computer interaction
  * Multimodal data processing
  * Data acquisition
  * Corpus-based studies
  * Affective computing
  * Conversational agents


This fellowship is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND action. It 
is a three-year work contract, with a monthly net salary of 
approximately 1625€/month, a 500€ travel allowance per year between 
Marseille and the place of origin, a financial support for international 
research training and conferences participations plus a contribution to 
the research costs of up to 12.600€.

More information here: 
https://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/towards-a-computational-model-of-social-skills-for-human-computer-interaction-so-human 


For any question, contact Philippe Blache <philippe.blache at univ-amu.fr 
<mailto:philippe.blache at univ-amu.fr>> or Magalie Ochs 
<magalie.ochs at lis-lab.fr >


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