New PhD Position: Affective Communication in Human-Robot Interaction at IIT

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has announced a new PhD position in Affective Communication in Human-Robot Interaction. The position is part of the PhD Program for the curriculum "Cognitive Robotics, Interaction and Rehabilitation Technologies", which provides interdisciplinary training at the interface between technology and life-sciences. The project aims to study the kinematic features characterizing different human actions performed with different forms and to enable the iCub humanoid robot to express them with its own behavior and detect them from visual observation of human actions. The project will leverage Real Time functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technique to quantitatively evaluate the impact on humans from behavioral and neural point of view. The successful candidate will participate in the generation of iCub robot’s actions, develop algorithms to detect action forms, develop and test cognitive paradigms coupled with cortical and subcortical Real Time fMRI recordings, and compute brain activity maps from fMRI data. The deadline for applications is July 9th 2024 at 12 noon (CET).

For more information and to apply, visit https://biorob.phd.unige.it/how-to-apply and contact the prospective tutors at giuseppe.dicesare at iit.it, radoslaw.niewiadomski at dibris.unige.it, or alessandra.sciutti at iit.it.