Connectionists: PhD studentship on Trust and Wellbeing in Transparent Human-Robot Interaction Teams (University of Manchester, UK)

[Angelo Cangelosi]

University of Manchester, UK
Cognitive Robotics Lab

A PhD studentship on “Trust and Wellbeing in Transparent Human-Robot Interaction Teams” is available at the University of Manchester, UK.
This is a 3-year PhD studentship funded by Honda Research Institute Europe, with Dr Christian Goerick as industry co-supervisor and Professor Angelo Cangelosi as academic supervisor.
This PhD project aims at the design of a novel AI cognitive architecture for transparent collaboration amongst a group of human participants and cobots. In particular. it focuses on designing an AI explanatory architecture to enhance trust, wellbeing and harmony in heterogenous collaborative teams. The cognitive architecture will be able to read the intention of the two agents and provide explanatory strategies and information for trustworthy interaction to enhance the harmony and social dynamics of the interaction and group performance.

The funding includes a standard PhD bursary and the UK/EU fees for students starting by 1st April 2020.
For informal enquires, email angelo.cangelosi at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:angelo.cangelosi at manchester.ac.uk>
Deadline for application is 15 December 2020.
Interviews will be in January 2020, subject to confirmation of contract.

For more information and for the application website, see:
https://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/research-projects/description/?projectid=28901

Angelo Cangelosi
University of Manchester
Cognitive Robotics Lab

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