<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class="">We have a position for a postdoctoral Research Assistant to investigate the realization of meaningful nonverbal behavior in embodied conversation agents, <br class="">with a specific focus on using data-driven approaches to computationally model the generation of gestures during face-to-face interactions. <br class=""><br class="">The work will specifically explore the relation in human face-to-face interaction between participants’ mental states and their nonverbal behaviour, <br class="">computationally model that relation using data-driven/machine-learning techniques, work with the team to realise that model in a virtual human </font><div class=""><font size="2" class="">and experimentally evaluate its impact in interactions between humans and virtual humans. <br class=""><br class="">The post will be located at the Artificially Intelligent Social Agents Lab (Artisal) at the University of Glasgow.<br class=""><br class="">For further details, please see:<br class=""><a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CLS313/research-associate-computational-modelling-of-human-behaviour" class="">https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CLS313/research-associate-computational-modelling-of-human-behaviour</a><br class="">Closing date: Jan 10th, 2022<br class=""><br class="">For any enquiries, please get in touch with Stacy Marsella — stacy.marsella@glasgow.ac.uk<br class=""><br class="">PS: Please also get in touch if you are interested in programming positions in human behaviour modeling.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>