We are currently looking for PhD-student in Multimodal Conversational HCI @ Bielefeld University, Germany Environment: Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability” - Project A02: Monitoring the Understanding of Explanations (https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/) - PIs: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Buschmeier, Dr. Angela Grimminger, Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner The project's objective is to process multimodal signals indicating whether a user understands or does not understand explanations in human-agent explanatory dialogue. - Multimodal signal processing, based on recent theoretical advances of Judith Holler and Stephen Levinson (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.05.006) - Development and evaluation of state-of-the-art computational models for monitoring user understanding in context of explanations - Interdisciplinary team (phonetics/psycholinguistics/computational linguistics/human-machine interaction), situated in a large interdisciplinary research centre with fantastic support structures → Official information and application link: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4541/research-position-in-the-sfb-trr-318-subproject-a02?page\_lang=en Don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to know more. -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hendrik Buschmeier (Juniorprofessor) Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme