[iva] Three PhD positions on chatbots supporting a healthy lifestyle

[Bosse, T. (Tibor)]

*Three full time, fully funded PhD positions: Digital conversational 
agents ("chatbots") supporting a healthy lifestyle*.

We are looking for three enthusiastic PhD researchers for a national 
research project  “Look Who’s Talking? Towards Engaging Long-Term 
Interactions with Conversational Agents”, funded by the Netherlands 
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), within the Open Competition 
Digitilisation (SSH).

This 4-year project aims to develop and evaluate digital conversational 
agents ("chatbots") that are capable of understanding human utterances 
and can automatically generate appropriate, human-like responses. The 
main aim of our project is to study the long-term ‘relationships’ 
between such conversation agents and human users, with the goal of 
assisting people to engage in a healthier lifestyle (in particular, 
smoking cessation and safe sex promotion).

“Look Who’s Talking” is a collaboration with key academic expertise on 
communication, technology and computational linguistics (Tilburg 
University), artificial intelligence and human-machine interaction 
(Radboud University), and behavioural change, health technology and 
psychology (University of Amsterdam), and with national stakeholders 
regarding smoking cessation (Trimbos Institute) and sexual health (Soa 
Aids Nederland).

Three PhDs will be hired on this project, one at each of the 
participating universities. PhD1 will lay the technical foundation for 
the project, while the emphasis for PhDs2 and 3 is on developing and 
evaluating the applications. Although the three PhD candidates will work 
on related but different sub-projects, a close collaboration between the 
PhD candidates is important for successful completion of the project. In 
collaboration with the project supervisors, the PhD candidates will also 
work on a paper regarding the ethical implications of the use of 
conversational agents in health promotion.

All PhD projects are intended to start before the summer.

*PhD1 Engaging long-term interactions with conversational agents*
Location: Radboud University
More information: prof. dr. Tibor Bosse (t.bosse at ru.nl 
<mailto:t.bosse at ru.nl>)
Apply here 
<https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1092173>.

*PhD2 Conversational agents supporting smoking cessation*
Location: Tilburg University
More information: prof. dr. Emiel Krahmer 
(e.j.krahmer at tilburguniversity.edu 
<mailto:e.j.krahmer at tilburguniversity.edu>)
Apply here <https://www.tiu.nu/16656>.

*PhD3 Conversational agents promoting safe sex*
Location: University of Amsterdam
More information: dr. Gert-Jan de Bruijn (g.j.debruijn at uva.nl 
<mailto:g.j.debruijn at uva.nl>)
Apply here 
<https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/02/20-134-phd-position-on-engaging-long-term-interactions-with-conversational-agents.html?z>.

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