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

E.J. Krahmer E.J.Krahmer at tilburguniversity.edu
Thu Feb 27 15:34:03 PST 2020


[Apologies for multiple postings]

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 conversational 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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Emiel Krahmer

Department of Communication and Cognition
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
Tilburg University Language Production group<https://tulp.uvt.nl/>



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