Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in Cross-sensory Cognition

That is an thrilling alternative for a Analysis Affiliate / Senior Analysis Affiliate place to affix the Numerous-Potential Interplay Lab (Dive Lab), led by Dr Oussama Metatla, throughout the Bristol Interplay Group (BIG) on the College of Bristol.

Within the Dive Lab, we research interactions between disabled and non-disabled individuals to design, engineer and consider applied sciences that help extra inclusion in human society, spanning a variety of teams, domains, and contexts, together with visible impairments, neurodiversity, and cognitive and bodily impairments in schooling, work, and leisure.

The postholder will be a part of a multidisciplinary crew engaged on the inclusiveXplay venture, (supported by an ERC-selected Consolidator Grant, funded by UKRI), through which we’re investigating how cross-sensory and embodied cognition can inform the design of novel applied sciences that may help early motor, cognitive and social improvement of blind and visually impaired (BVI) preschool-aged kids after they work together with their sighted friends. The postholder will lead on the cognitivescience elements of the inclusiveXplay venture: to empirically research cross-sensory notion in BVI and sighted kids, to characterise cross-sensory correspondences between sensory modalities (visible, auditory, haptic, olfactory and gustatory), and to provide basic insights into BVI and sighted kids’s potential shared cross-sensory cognition.

You’ll research cross-sensory cognition in BVI and sighted kids by extending present cross-sensory paradigms of symbolic transformations and communication throughout sensory modalities.

This may embody using managed experiments grounded in experimental psychology and cognitive science to deal with questions resembling: What are cross-sensory correspondences between sensory symbolic stimuli in BVI and sighted kids? Are there pure cross-sensory correspondences which can be shared between BVI and sighted kids? And the way are these cross-sensory correspondences impacted by stimuli type elements resembling form change?

This may contribute new data to the rising physique of literature on crossmodal correspondences and their potential for multisensory and accessible human-computer interplay.

You have an interest in understanding cross-sensory cognition in BVI and sighted pre-school aged kids, and in collaborating with interplay designers, engineers, and human-computer interplay consultants, to:

• Lead the research of cross-sensory correspondences throughout a wider vary of sensory modalities in BVI and sighted people.
• Design, plan and execute managed experiments of cross-sensory cognition.
• Acquire and analyse knowledge characterising cross-sensory correspondences.
• Translate findings into insights that may feed into different inclusiveXplay venture actions, e.g., co-design actions, and engineering of cross-sensory shape-changing interfaces.
• Write up and submit analysis findings to high publication venues

For casual queries please contact Dr Oussama Metatla; [email protected]

To seek out out extra about what it is prefer to work within the College of Engineering, and the way the College helps individuals to attain their potential, please see our employees weblog:

https://engineeringincludesme.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/

Interviews are anticipated to be held on 10/01/2024.

We lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels in a position to be themselves and do their greatest in an inclusive working setting the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We would like to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – significantly individuals of color, LGBT+ and disabled individuals – as a result of range of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a world civic establishment.

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That is an thrilling alternative for a Analysis Affiliate / Senior Analysis Affiliate place to affix the Numerous-Potential Interplay Lab (Dive Lab), led by Dr Oussama Metatla, throughout the Bristol Interplay Group (BIG) on the College of Bristol.

Within the Dive Lab, we research interactions between disabled and non-disabled individuals to design, engineer and consider applied sciences that help extra inclusion in human society, spanning a variety of teams, domains, and contexts, together with visible impairments, neurodiversity, and cognitive and bodily impairments in schooling, work, and leisure.

The postholder will be a part of a multidisciplinary crew engaged on the inclusiveXplay venture, (supported by an ERC-selected Consolidator Grant, funded by UKRI), through which we’re investigating how cross-sensory and embodied cognition can inform the design of novel applied sciences that may help early motor, cognitive and social improvement of blind and visually impaired (BVI) preschool-aged kids after they work together with their sighted friends. The postholder will lead on the cognitivescience elements of the inclusiveXplay venture: to empirically research cross-sensory notion in BVI and sighted kids, to characterise cross-sensory correspondences between sensory modalities (visible, auditory, haptic, olfactory and gustatory), and to provide basic insights into BVI and sighted kids’s potential shared cross-sensory cognition.

You’ll research cross-sensory cognition in BVI and sighted kids by extending present cross-sensory paradigms of symbolic transformations and communication throughout sensory modalities.

This may embody using managed experiments grounded in experimental psychology and cognitive science to deal with questions resembling: What are cross-sensory correspondences between sensory symbolic stimuli in BVI and sighted kids? Are there pure cross-sensory correspondences which can be shared between BVI and sighted kids? And the way are these cross-sensory correspondences impacted by stimuli type elements resembling form change?

This may contribute new data to the rising physique of literature on crossmodal correspondences and their potential for multisensory and accessible human-computer interplay.

You have an interest in understanding cross-sensory cognition in BVI and sighted pre-school aged kids, and in collaborating with interplay designers, engineers, and human-computer interplay consultants, to:

• Lead the research of cross-sensory correspondences throughout a wider vary of sensory modalities in BVI and sighted people.
• Design, plan and execute managed experiments of cross-sensory cognition.
• Acquire and analyse knowledge characterising cross-sensory correspondences.
• Translate findings into insights that may feed into different inclusiveXplay venture actions, e.g., co-design actions, and engineering of cross-sensory shape-changing interfaces.
• Write up and submit analysis findings to high publication venues

For casual queries please contact Dr Oussama Metatla; [email protected]

To seek out out extra about what it is prefer to work within the College of Engineering, and the way the College helps individuals to attain their potential, please see our employees weblog:

https://engineeringincludesme.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/

Interviews are anticipated to be held on 10/01/2024.

We lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels in a position to be themselves and do their greatest in an inclusive working setting the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We would like to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – significantly individuals of color, LGBT+ and disabled individuals – as a result of range of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a world civic establishment.

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