START

Spring 2019

DURATION

The grant will be for 12 months, with a yearly salary from € 15.000,00 up to 25.000,00 (depending on the experience and seniority of the candidate)

Topics

Social Signal Processing in Rehabilitation Domains

Language requirement

English

Description

Social Signal Processing is the discipline concerned with the automatic analysis of human social behaviour and with the generation of coherent social signals in artificial embodied agents. The AVATEA project (Advanced Virtual Adaptive Technologies e-hEAlth) aims at providing an adaptive support to therapists and children during motor rehabilitation sessions so, in this domain, the proper recognition of social signals, such as attention, engagement and distress could provide a valuable index of therapeutic effectiveness.

Formalising such measures will be the main topic of interest for candidates to this position, together with the appropriate research about methods to elicit social behaviour in children suffering from different, and possibly limiting, diseases.