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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b>CALL FOR ONE RESEARCH GRANT UNDER THE RoboTherapist RESEARCH PROJECT</b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b>Grant</b>: Research Fellowship for Graduated Students<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b>Reference</b>: RoboTherapist<b> </b>-ISR-BIG<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b>Application period: </b>28th of July to 10th of August, 2022<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>The Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra (ISR-UC) opens a tender for the award of one (1) Research Grant (BI) for Graduated Students in the framework of the Project UIDB/0048/2020, designated by RoboTherapist - “Child-Robot Interaction (cHRI) in Pediatric Settings”, with funding supported by FCT/MCTES, funded entirely by national funds through the UIDB/0048/2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b>Scientific area:</b> Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related areas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b>Work plan/ Objectives</b>: Research and development activities will be carried out in the area of artificial intelligence (Machine Learning), and robotics focusing on deep-learning approaches for automatic perception of engagement in a cHRI task performed with a NAO robot, using methods such as transfer learning for high level feature extraction (child engagement in a task with a robot), which is expected to help dealing with the scarcity of children’s datasets as well as unbalanced data. This project is the result of a consortium between the ISR-UC and CINEEIC-UC research centers, as well as University of Hertfordshire.<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>More Information at:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span><a href="https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/819294">https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/819294</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cumprimentos,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Lara Costa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Gestora de Ciência<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Departamento de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pólo II, Universidade de Coimbra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>3030-290 Coimbra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Tel: 239 796 217 (Ext: 421113)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>