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Technische Universität Berlin invites applications for a PhD
position for the Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence". <br>
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Field: Social responsiveness and its effects on learning in
human-human and human-robot interaction</strong><br>
<p>This interdisciplinary research projects combines research from
educational psychology and computer vision to examine principles
of social responsive teaching behaviors in social learning
situations. Perceiving and appropriately reacting to social cues
facilitate effective knowledge transfer between interaction
participants, whether they be humans or humans and an artificial
agent such as a robot. The main goal of this project therefore
is to develop synthetic systems (robotic teaching assistants)
with high-level perceptual capabilities in social learning
situations and, in the course of that, synthetic systems that
are able to simulate social responsive behaviors.</p>
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<p><strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px;
outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Doctoral
project: “Perception, Categorization and Synthetization of
social responsiveness in human-human and human-robot
interaction during learning situations”</strong><br>
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<p>The project focuses on the identification of teaching behaviors
that can be labeled as ‘social responsive’ in learning
situations. We aim to automatically understand relations between
social responsive teaching behaviors and student engagement,
emotion, and cognitive performance in Human-Human and
Human-Robot interaction. One aim is to sensitively categorize
behaviors that define social responsive teaching behaviors, to
synthesize such behaviors and to apply synthesized behaviors in
learning situations using robotic teaching assistants.</p>
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<b>Duties: </b><br>
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- Conducting experimental research in computer vision <br>
- Analysis of video data to generate algorithms for computer
vision <br>
- Automated evaluation of behavior <br>
- Modeling of behavior using representation and reinforcement
learning <br>
- Interaction within the SCIoI cluster of excellence <br>
- Compilation of the results for presentations, project reports,
and publications<br>
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<b>Requirements: </b>Applicants must hold a Diploma/Master’s
degree in Computer Science or related sciences and should have
proven skills/background in following topics:<br>
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- profound expertise in computer vision and machine learning<br>
- expertise in robotics and visualization<br>
- excellent mathematical skills,<br>
- in depth programming skills (C/C++, Python, Matlab),<br>
- very good command of English, both written and spoken,<br>
- a keen interest in understanding intelligence,<br>
- the strong communicative skills required for interdisciplinary
research,<br>
- a conscientious work approach, flexibility, good time
management, and ability to work in a team<br>
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<b>Application procedure:</b> Candidates should upload their
application preferably via the portal<span> </span><font
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order to receive full consideration.<br>
Applications should include: motivation letter, curriculum
vitae, transcripts of records (for both BSc and MSc), copies of
degree certificates (BSc, MSc), abstracts of Bachelor-,
Master-thesis, list of publications and one selected manuscript
(if applicable), two names of qualified persons who are willing
to provide references, and any documents candidates feel may
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Hellwich
Technische Universität Berlin, Computer Vision @ Remote Sensing
MAR 6-5, Marchstr. 23, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49(0)30/314-22796; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de</a></pre>
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