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<div class="">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). </div>
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<div class="">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).</div>
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<div class="">“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). </div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">All PhD projects are intended to start before the summer.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD1 Engaging long-term interactions with conversational agents</b></div>
<div class="">Location: Radboud University </div>
<div class="">More information: prof. dr. Tibor Bosse (<a href="mailto:t.bosse@ru.nl" class="">t.bosse@ru.nl</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a href="https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1092173" class="">here</a>.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD2 Conversational agents supporting smoking cessation</b></div>
<div class="">Location: Tilburg University</div>
<div class="">More information: prof. dr. Emiel Krahmer (<a href="mailto:e.j.krahmer@tilburguniversity.edu" class="">e.j.krahmer@tilburguniversity.edu</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a href="https://www.tiu.nu/16656" class="">here</a>.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">PhD3 Conversational agents promoting safe sex</b></div>
<div class="">Location: University of Amsterdam</div>
<div class="">More information: dr. Gert-Jan de Bruijn (<a href="mailto:g.j.debruijn@uva.nl" class="">g.j.debruijn@uva.nl</a>)</div>
<div class="">Apply <a href="https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/02/20-134-phd-position-on-engaging-long-term-interactions-with-conversational-agents.html?z" class="">here</a>.</div>
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Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences</div>
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