Connectionists: Two Post-Doc Positions at IIT working on Perception and HRI

[Alessandra Sciutti]

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     Two Post-Doc Positions at IIT working on Perception and HRI
     Italian Institute of Technology – Genoa
     Deadline: 14 January 2019
     Project: ERC Starting Grant “wHiSPER”
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Perception is a complex process, where prior knowledge is incorporated into
the current percept to help the brain cope with sensory uncertainty. This
implies that two individuals could perceive differently the very same
physical stimulus, e.g. the duration of an interval of time could look
longer to one than to the other. Yet, humans are very good at achieving a
tight coordination in space and time. 

The project aims at understanding how such a shared perception is achieved,
by modelling how visual perception of time and space changes during
interaction and enabling a robot to adapt its perception to the individual
needs of the partner. 

These aims require a multidisciplinary team of motivated researchers, coming
from different backgrounds and eager to address the challenges of
understanding humans and of making better robots! 
If you want to be part of the team, here you find the official calls: 

• Postodctoral position in "Enabling shared perception with robots" 
https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/903-postdoctoral-position-in-ena
bling-shared-perception-with-robots 

 oriented to researchers with a background in computer science, robotics,
engineering or related fields;

• Postoctoral position in “Investigating perception during interaction with
humans and robots" 
https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/902-postdoctoral-position-in-inv
estigating-perception-during-interaction-with-humans-and-robots
  
 oriented to researchers with a background in psychology, neuroscience,
biomedical engineering or related fields;

The successful applicants will join an interdisciplinary team based at
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Erzelli, Genoa, Italy, and conduct
research in the context of the ERC Starting Grant “wHiSPER – investigating
Human Shared PErception with Robots” funded by the European Research Council
with Grant Agreement n. 804388 (Principal Investigator: Alessandra
Sciutti). Research will happen in a fully equipped laboratory, supplied with
a iCub humanoid robot, motion capture and eye-tracking devices, in a group
with a variety of competences ranging from robotics to psychology and
bioengineering.

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   The deadline for applications is: 14 January 2019
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The project will start in March 2019. Additionally positions are available
at the PhD level and projects for Bachelor and Master preparation can be
discussed.
Please contact: alessandra.sciutti at iit.it for any further question or
information and share this communication with anybody who could be
interested.

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Alessandra Sciutti (PhD)
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Center for Human Technologies 
Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B
16152 Genova, Italy
tel: +39 010  8172 210
email: alessandra.sciutti at iit.it 
website: https://www.iit.it/people/alessandra-sciutti
twitter: @alefreedot
TEDx talk (Italian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=e0eMayWU_lc