Research Associate

Department

Psychology

Salary

£36,024 per year

Grade

Grade 6

Contract status

Fixed term

Hours of work

Full-time

Based at

University of York campus

Posted Date

27/10/2023

Apply by

26/11/2023

Job Reference

12789

Documents

The Department of Psychology at the University of York is seeking a Research Associate in the area of predicting and obviating human error in visual monitoring tasks. The project is focused on attempting to predict when a person is likely to commit an error whilst engaged in a mundane visual monitoring task. Aside from collecting simple key press responses, thermal imaging of facial skin temperature will also take place. The intention is to use such measures to predict the likelihood of committing an error on the monitoring task. Ultimately an aim is to use AI to learn to predict when an upcoming error is likely. If successful the intention is to explore effective means to obviate such errors.

The successful candidate will be primarily engaged with developing a variety of software to facilitate the design and running of the experiments and the processing of the data. In particular a key responsibility will be in the development of the AI to predict the likelihood of committing an error given the data from the experiments. This post is part of a DASA-funded project awarded to Dr Philip Quinlan.

This role is offered on a fixed term basis for 15 months

Interview date: December 2023

For informal enquiries: please contact Dr Philp Quinlan (email: [email protected])

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