[Dutch-chapter] Post-doc position @ TU Delft - Declarative Modeling of Narrative Worlds

[Rafael Bidarra]

__________________________________________   Post-doc position on        Declarative Modeling of Narrative Worlds    at   Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science   Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands   Duration of contract: 18 months (starting no later than 1/March/2017)   Salary scale: €2532 to € 3997 per month gross   Apply before: November 15th, 2016    __________________________________________   JOB DESCRIPTION   This position is integrated in the 'Virtual eCoaching and Storytelling technology for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment' project, which studies how effective an online guided self-therapy system could be for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients. This research focuses on methods for enabling patients to easily re-create a personal experience within a suiting virtual environment.   This project aims at investigating  how declarative and procedural modeling methods can automate the generation of such narrative worlds , and how such methods could involve PTSD patients in casting their storytelling process for therapeutic purposes.    The generic methods developed will help users  create a virtual world that supports enacting an input story . A proof-of-concept system based on such  mixed-initiative methods  will be developed, enabling authors to customize their own narrative world version for a given story they like. This system will combine new techniques with in-house algorithms and systems, e.g. procedural methods, constraints solvers, and graphical libraries.   The candidate will investigate (1) how the use of rich object semantics can steer the creation of a narrative world; (2) how to create and interpret a story's plan, and to materialize it in a narrative world layout; and (3) how to make procedural techniques accessible to non-technical users.   The project will be mainly performed within the  Computer Graphics and Visualisation Group , which has more than 30 years of experience in research in a wide range of topics in computer  graphics, visualisation, game technology, augmented/virtual reality, and geometric modeling.   REQUIREMENTS   You have a university PhD degree in computer science, human-computer interaction or a related area, with excellent grades. Experience with computer graphics and other game technologies is a plus. You have excellent programming skills in languages such as C#, C++ and Python, and have a passion for game technology, computational storytelling 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, spanning areas such as human-computer interaction, computer graphics, serious gaming, and clinical psychology.   __________________________________________   See the  vacancy page , for more details.   For information on this position, contact  Rafael Bidarra    __________________________________________      
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