[Dutch-chapter] PhD position @ TU Delft, The Netherlands - Declarative & Semantic Modelling for PTSD

[Rafael Bidarra]

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PhD position at

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Duration of contract: 4 years
Salary scale: €2062 to €2638 per month gross

Apply before: August 1st, 2013  (details at http://goo.gl/q8UuE)
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JOB DESCRIPTION

The candidate will participate in the “Virtual eCoaching and Storytelling 
technology for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment (VESP)” project, 
which studies how effective a stand-alone, multi-modal memory restructuring 
(3MR) system and an Internet-based, guided self-therapy system could be 
used for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients.
The main goal of this PhD project is to investigate how a storytelling 
framework could use declarative and semantic methods for enabling patients 
to easily re-create an experience via a virtual environment for therapeutic 
purposes. Among other tasks, the PhD student will investigate (1) desired 
object semantics and associations for virtual reality exposure therapy 
(VRET) environments, (2) how to integrate procedural techniques and 
non-intrusive interactive methods, and (3) methods to support the 
declarative creation of scenarios and their consistency maintenance.
The project will combine new techniques with existing, in-house algorithms 
and systems, e.g. procedural methods, solvers, and libraries. Within the 
VESP team, the candidate will work closely together with two other PhD 
students, who will respectively (1) investigate how to establish a virtual 
coach that assists in the treatment execution, and (2) design and conduct 
two Randomized Controlled Trials to evaluate the efficacy of PTSD treatment 
systems.   


REQUIREMENTS

You have a university MSc degree in computer science, human-computer 
interaction or a related area, with excellent grades. Experience with 
computer graphics and game technology is a plus. You have excellent 
programming skills in languages such as C#, C++ and Python, and have a 
passion for game technology and (serious) gaming. You have excellent 
communication skills, and a good mastery of both spoken and written 
English. You have a creative mind and are an excellent player in a 
multi-disciplinary team that spans areas such as human-computer 
interaction, computer graphics, serious gaming, and clinical psychology.

The project will be mainly performed within the Computer Graphics and 
Visualization Group, which has more than 25 years of experience in research 
in a wide range of topics in computer  graphics, visualization, game 
technology, augmented/virtual reality, and geometric modeling.

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For more details, see http://goo.gl/q8UuE

For information on this position, contact: R.Bidarra at tudelft.nl
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Rafael Bidarra                   http://graphics.tudelft.nl/~rafa

Fac. of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
P.O.BOX 5031  2600 GA Delft  The Netherlands Tel: +31 15 27 84564