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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>PhD
position in Computational Cognitive Modeling at the University of
Grenoble, France</b></font><font size="3"><br>
________________________________________________________________________________</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">A full-time PhD
position is available at the University of Grenoble, France, for a
period of 3 years in order to qualify for a PhD degree. The position
is funded by the National Research Agency of France (ANR). The
successful applicant will work as part of the Gaze&EEG project
whose one of the goals is to design and implement a computational
model of information search in web-like materials, using data from
both eye-tracking and EEG.</font></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Interested
individuals should send an email with their detailed CV and
motivation letter to Anne Guérin-Dugué
(</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:anne.guerin@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">anne.guerin@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr</font></font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">)
and Benoît Lemaire (</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Benoit.Lemaire@imag.fr"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Benoit.Lemaire@imag.fr</font></font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">)
before July 10, 2009. </font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Salary:
1,400€ net / month<br>
Starting
date: October 1st, 2009<br>
Contact
information: Benoît Lemaire,
TIMC-IMAG, University of Grenoble, France, </font></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Benoit.Lemaire@imag.fr"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Benoit.Lemaire@imag.fr</font></font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">,
</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www-timc.imag.fr/Benoit.Lemaire"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">http://www-timc.imag.fr/Benoit.Lemaire</font></font></a></u></span></font>
</p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thanks to the joint EEG-eye
tracking
methodology, this project gives us the great opportunity to deal with
more ecological visual tasks, in order to propose cognitive models
partially explaining the human behavior during natural cognitive
tasks. The task we will study is information seeking on Web pages.
Knowing where and why a user is likely to gaze at is important for
the design and evaluation of complex documents and especially web
pages. Many works have already been done in this area, in particular
in the context of web usability [1], but they usually consider that
the user is processing the page without any specific goal, because
they can only take into account visual features, without
incorporating the processing of textual data and its relationship to
the user goal. A completely different approach have been to model to
semantic similarity between the textual material and the goal [2] but
without taking into account the visual features, which is known to
affect the gaze. Therefore, we want to develop a computational model
based on complex materials composed of textual items and images,
integrating memory, visual and semantic processes, and will
validate experimental data on eye movements and eye-fixation-related
potentials extracted from EEG signals. </font>
</p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The PhD student
will first familiarize with the eye-fixation-related potentials
(EFRP) technique [3] at the University of Nice during a semester.
This technique records at the same time eye movements and EEG
signals. Then the PhD student will design experiments in order to
study specific brain waves (such as the N400) on stimuli composed of
text and natural images referring to congruent or not congruent
concepts. Finally, the student will use that information to design a
computational model of information search, extending the existing
models of our team [4,5].</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">The
successful applicant will be supervised by Anne Guérin-Dugué
(GIPSA-lab) and Benoît Lemaire (TIMC-IMAG). </font></font>
</p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Applicants should
have a master degree in cognitive science, computer science or
psychology and demonstrate their ability to carry out high-quality
research in cognitive modeling. A good level of proficiency in
computer programming is necessary. Familiarity with signal processing
is desirable. Good knowledge in either vision or semantics would be
an advantage.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">[1]
Baccino, T., Bellino, C., & Colombi, T. (2005). Mesure de
l'utilisabilité des Interfaces. Paris: Hermès Science Publisher
(Lavoisier).</font><br>
[2] Blackmon, M. H., Kitajima,
M., & Polson, P. G. (2005). Tool for accurately predicting
website navigation problems, non-problems, problem severity, and
effectiveness of repairs. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on
Human factors in Computing Systems, pp. 31-40.<br>
<font size="3">[3] Baccino, T.,
& Manunta, Y. (2005). Eye-Fixation-Related Potentials: Insight
into Parafoveal Processing. </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Journal
of Psychophysiology</i></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">,
19(3), 204-215.
(</font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.lutin-userlab.fr/baccino/Publications/Articles/Baccino%20et%20Manunta%20%282005%29.pdf%29"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">http://www.lutin-userlab.fr/baccino/Publications/Articles/Baccino%20et%20Manunta%20(2005).pdf)</font></font></a></u></span><br>
<font size="3">[4]
Chanceaux, M., Guérin-Dugué, A., Lemaire, B., Baccino, T. (2009). A
model to simulate Web users' eye movements. In </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Proceedings
of the 12th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
(INTERACT' 2009)</i></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer Verlag.
(</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2009_interact.pdf"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2009_interact.pdf</font></font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">)<br>
[5]
Chanceaux, M., Guérin-Dugué, A., Lemaire, B., Baccino, T. (2008).
Towards a model of information seeking by integrating visual,
semantic and memory maps, In B. Caputo, M Vincze (Eds), </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Proceedings
of the 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5329, Berlin: Springer Verlag,
65-78.
(</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2008_icvw.pdf"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2008_icvw.pdf</font></font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">)</font></font></p>
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