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Post-doctoral position in haptic displays for visually impaired people - EU project BLINDPAD
Within the context of the EU funded project BLINDPAD (www.blindpad.eu), the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) at the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is looking for a Postdoctoral fellow in the field of haptic displays for human-machine interaction for both youngsters and adults with disabilities.
Goal of the project is to make graphical contents accessible to blind and visually impaired people through touch by building and field-testing a personal assistive device. The device will use smart materials as actuators and will be connected to state-of-art mobile devices.The BLINDPAD will help, with serious games, visually impaired people in two paramount use cases:
(1) touch-based learning of symbolic content at school age;
(2) support orientation and mobility skills indoor and outdoor.
Research for this position will involve:
- mechanical validation of the actuation system when in contact with hands and fingers
- assessment of efficient information gathering of three-dimensional haptic information
- design of rendered haptic shapes as simple but highly informative graphics in both use cases
Being BLINDPAD a highly multidisciplinary project, the candidate will work in close collaboration with scientists active in the field of cognition, human-machine interaction, rehabilitation, material engineering and nanotechnology.
Candidates should have a PhD in haptics or mechanical/computer science/electronic engineering, with a publication record in one of the following areas: tactile displays, tactile actuators, physical modeling, and force-feedback devices.
Experience with tactile pin arrays, assistive technologies, statistical signal processing, computer science or with human factors and experimental psychology are an asset.
The contract is funded by an FP7 grant under the Objective ICT-2013.5.3 "ICT for smart and personalized inclusion".
The research activities will take place at IIT in Genoa.
The working language of the institute is English. An internationally competitive salary, dependent on experience, will be offered.
Interested applicants should submit CV, list of publications, names of 2 references.
Please send your application to the following email address:
luca.brayda@iit.it
before September 30th, 2013.
Official job-post URL:
Within the context of the EU funded project BLINDPAD (www.blindpad.eu), the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) at the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is looking for a Postdoctoral fellow in the field of haptic displays for human-machine interaction for both youngsters and adults with disabilities.
Goal of the project is to make graphical contents accessible to blind and visually impaired people through touch by building and field-testing a personal assistive device. The device will use smart materials as actuators and will be connected to state-of-art mobile devices.The BLINDPAD will help, with serious games, visually impaired people in two paramount use cases:
(1) touch-based learning of symbolic content at school age;
(2) support orientation and mobility skills indoor and outdoor.
Research for this position will involve:
- mechanical validation of the actuation system when in contact with hands and fingers
- assessment of efficient information gathering of three-dimensional haptic information
- design of rendered haptic shapes as simple but highly informative graphics in both use cases
Being BLINDPAD a highly multidisciplinary project, the candidate will work in close collaboration with scientists active in the field of cognition, human-machine interaction, rehabilitation, material engineering and nanotechnology.
Candidates should have a PhD in haptics or mechanical/computer science/electronic engineering, with a publication record in one of the following areas: tactile displays, tactile actuators, physical modeling, and force-feedback devices.
Experience with tactile pin arrays, assistive technologies, statistical signal processing, computer science or with human factors and experimental psychology are an asset.
The contract is funded by an FP7 grant under the Objective ICT-2013.5.3 "ICT for smart and personalized inclusion".
The research activities will take place at IIT in Genoa.
The working language of the institute is English. An internationally competitive salary, dependent on experience, will be offered.
Interested applicants should submit CV, list of publications, names of 2 references.
Please send your application to the following email address:
luca.brayda@iit.it
before September 30th, 2013.
Official job-post URL:
