1 Postdoctoral & 3 PhD Positions, University of Twente & Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (2016)

The University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology are currently looking for 3 PhD candidates and a part-time post-doc for the human factors subproject within the multidisciplinary i-Cave programme (stw.nl/nl/content/p14-18-i-cave-integrated-cooperative-automated-vehicle).

The i-Cave programme addresses automated and cooperative driving, and will develop and evaluate cars that can drive autonomously, and can also be driven by a human driver. These vehicles will be tested in a living-lab at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology. The Human Factors subproject within i-Cave will design and evaluate an intuitive interaction protocol between the automated vehicle and the human driver.

PhD1 will focus on how the automated vehicle should behave in order for a driver/user to feel safe. Elements such as social behaviour of cars and robots will be taken into account. PhD2 will design the transition from manual to automated driving and vice versa, while taking into account safety, situational awareness, comfort and trust. PhD3 will investigate expectations and responses of drivers of non-automated vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists to fully automated vehicles. The Postdoc will integrate the results from the three PhD projects, combining the vehicle behaviour from the perspective of the human driver and the surrounding traffic, and will be the linking pin with the rest of the i-Cave programme.
Requirements

The PhD students are expected to hold a MSc degree in cognitive psychology and/or human factors or in interaction design (PhD2) . They should have experience in designing and executing experimental research, preferably in the human machine interaction domain. The post-doc holds a doctoral degree in Human Factors, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science or related topics, has published in international journals, and has a clear affinity for vehicle control algorithms and engineering.

Further details:
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