15 fully funded PhD positions – visuAAL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network on Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living

Open call for 15 fully funded PhD positions

visuAAL – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network on Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living
Deadline: 20 November 2020
More information and application: https://www.visuaal-itn.eu/esr-vacancies

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network visuAAL (Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living) invites applications for 15 early-stage researcher (ESR) / PhD positions, available with a starting date in the period February 2021 – March 2021. The duration of the appointment is 36 months, full-time employment contract.

The aim of visuAAL is to bridge the knowledge gap between users’ requirements and the appropriate and secure use of video-based AAL technologies to deliver effective and supportive care to older adults managing their health and wellbeing.

visuAAL will seek to increase awareness and understanding of the context-specific ethical, legal, privacy and societal issues necessary to implement visual system across hospital, home and community settings, in a manner that protects and reassures users; outputs will stimulate the development of a new research perspective for constructively addressing privacy-aware video-based working solutions for assisted living.

visuAAL is a four-year (2020-2024) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN), which brings together 5 beneficiaries and 14 partner organisations from Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom. visuAAL will provide a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral combination of training, non-academic placements, courses and workshops on scientific and complementary skills to 15 high achieving ESRs. These newly hired ESRs will contribute through their individual research projects to fulfil visuAAL’s aims.

A list of the 15 PhD positions /ESR projects is presented below. To apply to a specific position/project, click on the title and follow the instructions. Please, check individual ESR projects for details as well as for specific / local acceptance requirements.

List of available PhD / ESR positions:

RWTH Aachen University, Germany
– ESR 1: Perceptions of personal privacy in health monitoring technologies (in different users)
– ESR 2: (Dis)Trust in medical technologies and medical support considering (severe) health decisions
– ESR 3: Acceptance of artificial intelligence in health-related contexts
Stockholm University, Sweden
– ESR 4: Video-based AAL technologies and colliding legal frameworks
– ESR 5: Video-based AAL technologies and balancing of interests
– ESR 6: “Digital twins” as a way to help ensure legal compliance of video-based AAL technologies
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
– ESR 7: Use of camera systems to support home based multiple chronic disease (multimorbidity) self-management
– ESR 8: Application of behavioural change theory to the design, development and implementation of camera systems to support home-based multiple chronic disease (multimorbidity) self-management
– ESR 9: Personalisation of self-management education/training for individuals with multiple chronic health conditions (multimorbidity) using visual based data –
TU Wien, Austria
– ESR 10: Behaviour modelling and life logging
– ESR 11: Algorithmic governance for active assisted living
– ESR 12: AI for dementia care
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
– ESR 13: Privacy preservation in video-based AAL applications
– ESR 14: Context recognition for the application of visual privacy
– ESR 15: Perceptions of personal safety and privacy in frail elderly, disabled people and their caregivers in the context of video-based lifelogging technologies

Requirements
• Applicants must hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) relevant to the project(s) they apply for
• Applicants should not have been awarded a PhD degree
• At the time of recruitment, applicants must have less than four (full time equivalent) years of experience within a research career (measured from the date when the applicant obtained the first degree entitling him/her to embark on a doctorate, even if a doctorate was never started or envisaged)
• Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting institution for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Additional criteria can apply for each specific research project (see the details about each project here)

For more information, contact visuAAL coordinator, Dr Francisco Florez.