Stillingstittel:
PhD Research Fellow in intelligent systems for Assisted Living Technology

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

PhD Research Fellow in intelligent systems for Assisted Living Technology

Fakultet for teknologi, kunst og design (TKD), Institutt for maskin, elektronikk og kjemi

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA) is Norway's largest state University College, with approximately 17000 students and 2000 employees. We conduct research in areas that are important for welfare and value creation, for instance health, education, social sciences, technology and design. HiOA has an academic stimulating environment with a variety of welfare schemes.

Our goal is to become a leading university in the Nordics within the field of applied sciences.

The Faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) offers higher education and research and development (R&D) activities within technical subjects, arts and design. The Faculty has approximately 2800 students and 240 staff members and is situated at Pilestredet Campus in downtown Oslo and at Kjeller Campus in Akershus.

The department offers bachelor's degree programmes in engineering, in addition to research and development activities. The department has approximately 40 staff members and 460 students.

Research within biotechnology and medical technology are priority areas at the department.

PhD Research Fellow in intelligent systems for Assisted Living Technology:

A position as PhD Research Fellow is available at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. The fellowship will be for a period of three years with no compulsory work at the department, with the possibility for an extension by up to 12 months with up to 25% compulsory work (teaching, lab, or project supervision responsibilities at the department).

The position is one of three PhD fellowships within the interdisciplinary Project The Assisted Living project - Responsible innovations for dignified lives at home for persons with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and conducts research within automation/ information and communication technology, health science, social science and ethics.

The project aims to develop Assisted Living Technology (ALT) solutions for users with mild cognitive impairment and dementia (MCI/D) by adapting a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach. It involves national and international academic partners, health care providers, and industry in a strongly interdisciplinary consortium with researchers, developers, users and students at all levels. Technology will be developed in close dialogue with all user groups - patients, family, and care providers - tested in a field trial with real users, and assessed using a holistic health technology assessment approach.

The successful candidate for this position will focus on the technological research and development. The candidate will work in close collaboration with a developer from the industry, a PhD candidate within health sciences and a PhD candidate within ethics.

Area of research:

The technological approach in this project is to develop intelligent self-learning assisted living systems for users with MCI/D. The characteristic of a self-learning system is that it evaluates its own performance and improves its algorithms automatically. The system learns by experience and employs the best learned strategy next time a similar situation arises. Hence it evolves to be better suited for the tasks at hand. In addition, such a system is self-adapting and tailors itself automatically, for example in accordance with user preferences and needs. Applied to solutions for persons with MCI/D or persons in a high-danger group for developing dementia, such a system may prove invaluable.

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Högskolen i Oslo og Akershus

Arbeidsgiver adresse: OSLO

Formen for kontakt:
Dr. Evi Zouganeli, Associate Professor, tel: (+47) 6723 8704 e-post: evi.zouganeli (at) hioa.no

Arbeidsgiver telefonnummer: 00

Job kort beskrivelse: Electronics engineers

Land: Norge

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Kontraktstype: Heltid

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Kilde til jobbtilbud:
Arbetsförmedlingen, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Sverige

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