Call for Applications
Research Associate
ESRC-funded international collaborative project “Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences”
University of Glasgow – School of Computing Science
Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYX734/research-associate
Application deadline (extended): 13 April 2020
The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is looking for an excellent and enthusiastic researcher to join the ESRC-funded international collaborative project “Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences.” This is a new 3-year project which aims to investigate how a social robot can help children cope with potentially painful experiences in a healthcare setting. The system developed in the project will be tested through a hospital-based clinical trial at the end of the project.
[Project abstract from https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT012986%2F1:
Children experience pain and distress in clinical settings every day, and the negative consequences of unaddressed pain can be both short-term (e.g.… read more. “Job: Research Associate for “Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences” project”