Offer Description Work Plan:
- Creation of a video game featuring adaptive level generation, through procedural generation techniques, such as wave function collapse, composition grammars, marching cubes, among others.
- Creation of a conversational agent that can guide and manage the game's interactions and gameplay.
- Creation of a system that supports both "wizard of oz" tests, allowing researchers to manipulate and simulate the conversational agent's responses.
- Creation of a framework using large language models (LLMs) and other techniques to establish meaningful and immersive interactions.
- Creation of a system for managing the conversational agent's proactive changes in the interface, using current state-of-the-art technologies, such as LLMs and semantic analysis through sentence transformers.
- Conduction of a user study through mixed-method approach featuring both quantitative and qualitative methods for user data analysis (Conversational Analysis, questionnaires and experience observations).
- Participation in the activities of the research group.
Fellowship duration: The scholarship will last for 6 months, eventually renewed within the duration of the project.
Application deadline and form of application submission: this call is open from 15/10/2024 to 28/10/2024.
The application must include the following documents: CV, motivation letter, copy of academic records/certificates* and proof of enrollment in a Doctoral program (or, if not registered in a doctoral program on the date of application, a declaration on honor by the candidate that he or she meets the requirements to enroll in a doctoral program).
Applications should be sent by e-mail to Professor Rui Nóbrega (******) and CC to ****** with the subject UIDP/04516/2020/BIM/17.
Documents that are of mandatory submission, for purposes of the studentship contracting: proof of enrollment in a PhD program. * In case of foreign academic degrees, and to guarantee the application of the principle of equal treatment to applicants with national and foreign academic degrees, it is mandatory to submit the recognition of such degrees and the conversion of the respective final grade to the Portuguese grading scale.
Applicable legislation and regulations:
Law No. 40/2004, of August 18, amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 202/2012 of August 27 (Statute of the Scientific Research Fellow) and amended by Decree-Law No. 233/2012 of October 29, by Law No. 12/2013 of 29 January, by Decree-Law No. 89/2013, of 9 July and Decree-Law No. 123/2019, of 28 August; Regulation of Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. in force (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/regulamento.phtml.pt);
Where to apply E-mail: ******
Requirements Research Field: Computer science » Other
Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications:
Recipients profile/category:
Mandatory requirements: Computer Science MSc. Be enrolled in a Computer Science doctoral program.
Preferred factors: At least 2 years of experience in HCI research, with an emphasis on fields such as UI/UX, Conversational Interfaces, and Game Design. Broad knowledge in Conversational Agents, within multimodal environments, "Nudging", proactivity applied to conversational interactions, adaptive interfaces, and implementing procedural generation systems for multimodal interfaces.
Monthly maintenance allowance amount: The amount of the monthly maintenance allowance corresponds to €1259.64 euros.
Eligibility criteria:
Selection criteria:
For all candidates who meet the minimum requirements, a classification will be made, on a scale of 0 to 20, taking into account the weighting of the following selection methods: a) curricular assessment (50%) and b) prior knowledge of concepts and technologies relevant to project execution (50%). The scholarship may not be awarded if applications are not suitable.
Selection process:
Form of advertising/notification of results:
The evaluation results proposed by the jury will be notified, up to 90 days after the deadline for the submission of applications, by email, of the results proposed by the jury, with access to the minutes and the final ranking list.
After notification, candidates will have 10 working days to comment on the draft decision (prior hearing of interested parties, under the terms of the Code of Administrative Procedure). The final decision will be taken after the expiry of the prior hearing period, again notified to all candidates by e-mail. Of this final decision, the candidates can file a complaint within 15 working days (to the e-mail address used for the notification), or a hierarchical appeal, within 30 working days, addressed to NOVA.ID.FCT's Board through the address ******.
Additional comments:
Drafts:
The drafts of: i) fellowship contract, ii) final report to be presented by the fellowship holder, iii) final report to be presented by the scientific advisor, and; iv) declaration on honor, can all be found on NOVA.id.FCT website.
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