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<div><b style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Project Description: </b><font face="HelveticaNeue">The broad focus of this position pertains to computational modelling of high-level cognitive vision, with a focus on the formal and cognitive foundations of human-centered
AI. The specific research topics relevant to the position are declarative spatial reasoning, and development of methods for the integration of (commonsense) spatial reasoning and learning. Our aim with this new recruitment is to further advance our research
competences at the interface of Cognition, AI, Interaction, and Design (</font><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/hcc/agenda.html">www</a><font face="HelveticaNeue">).</font></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The doctoral candidate will (primarily) focus on developing the mathematical and computational foundations to represent, consistently maintain, and reason/learn about dynamic, relational knowledge about space,
motion, and (embodied) multimodal interaction in everyday contexts. </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The project will build on and advance recent research in spatial reasoning, (computational) cognitive vision and perception, and neurosymbolic
reasoning. Particularly, the planned PhD is intended to advance the scientific arc of the following recent publications:</span></div>
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<li>How do drivers mitigate the effects of naturalistic visual complexity? - On attentional strategies and its implications under a change blindness protocol. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) (2023).</li><li>Commonsense Visual Sensemaking for Autonomous Driving: On Generalised Neurosymbolic Online Abduction Integrating Vision and Semantics. Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) 2021.</li><li>Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind: An Answer Set Programming Based Online Abduction Framework for Visual Sensemaking in Autonomous Driving. IJCAI 2019.</li></ul>
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<div>We expect the basic research outcomes of this project to be contextualised and applicable in a wide range of computational cognitive systems contexts such as autonomous vehicles, cognitive robots, digital media systems, building architecture design systems.
Interest in one or more of these or other relevant applications will be an added advantage. In addition to the above publications, the technical context of the applicable research area may also be consulted at the following two project sites:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; white-space: pre;"></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">- </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Cognitive Vision and Perception > </span><a href="https://www.codesign-lab.org/cognitive-vision/" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">https://www.codesign-lab.org/cognitive-vision/</a></div>
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>- Counterfactual Commonsense > <a href="https://www.oru.se/english/research/research-projects/rp/?rdb=p2558">https://www.oru.se/english/research/research-projects/rp/?rdb=p2558</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Application Deadline</b>: October 9 2023</div>
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Formal announcement and application procedure: </b> <a href="https://www.oru.se/english/career/available-positions/job/?jid=20230269">https://www.oru.se/english/career/available-positions/job/?jid=20230269</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Contact</b>: For more information about the research / project focus relevant to the position, </div>
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">send an email to Professor Mehul Bhatt, e-mail: <a href="mailto:mehul.bhatt@oru.se">mehul.bhatt@oru.se</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><i>*** Apologies for possible cross-postings ***</i></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Örebro University, SWEDEN</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="mailto:mehul.bhatt@oru.se" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">https://mehulbhat.org</a><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"> / </span><a href="mailto:mehul.bhatt@oru.se" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">mehul.bhatt@oru.se</a></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b>CoDesign Lab EU</b> / Cognition. AI. Interaction. Design.</span></font></div>
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