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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Postdoc TU Delft - Socially Adaptive Behavior Support Agents</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We are looking for a research PostDoc. The position focuses on behaviour support agents for helping people with chronic diseases, such as
people with diabetes, to engage with their social environment and establish the conditions for a healthier lifestyle. Specifically, the work focuses on how a conversational agent with a reinforcement learning algorithm can support individuals and their social
networks to improve these social conditions. The postdoc will empirically investigate this with a user study. For example, the study could be conducted on a crowd worker platform where people repeatedly engage with a conversation agent, allowing examination
of the impact and acceptance of conversational agents and the underlying persuasion algorithm.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This position is part of the 4TU programme "Pride & Prejudice - Tackling chronic disease prevention through real-life monitoring and context-aware
intervention design" (<a href="http://prideandprejudice.nl/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">prideandprejudice.nl</span></a>). Central to the Pride & Prejudice programme is the combination of monitoring in
real-life through sensors (food intake, physical activity and health parameters) with the development of health-promoting interventions at different levels of the system (person, group, society), and evaluation of the (long-term) effectiveness of these combined
interventions.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">As a postdoc, your tasks concern the following activities:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> perform a sound scientific empirical research study</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> develop a working conversational agent, for example, with RASA.</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> publish the work in a renowned scientific journal</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> participate in activities of the research group and project team</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> limited participation in teaching activities of the research group.</span>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Requirements</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> a PhD degree in computer science, human-technology interaction, artificial intelligence or a closely related field</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Good programming skills (e.g. capable of developing conversational agents)</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Experience in setting up, executing and analysing an empirical study</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Experience with machine learning, specifically to implement a reinforcement learning algorithm</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written English</span>
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Some expertise in or affinity with ethics of information technology is useful. </span>
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<div class="">for more information see <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yckw9x4y" class="">https://tinyurl.com/yckw9x4y</a></div>
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<div class="">Willem-Paul Brinkman</div>
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<div class="">Delt University of Technology, The Netherlands</div>
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