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The lab of Prof. Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel at the University of Mainz, Germany, is happy to announce an open postdoctoral scientist position (full time; 36 months;
net salary approx. 34,000 €/year after taxes, social security, health insurance). The position is available in a research project funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Its aim is to deepen our understanding of the role of auditory and audiovisual perception
in traffic safety. Pedestrians navigating in traffic must avoid to collide with vehicles. In such a situation, our sense of hearing provides important information in addition to available visual information. For example, we can auditorily detect a vehicle
approaching us from behind and thus outside our field of view. While there is a large body of literature on time-to-collision (TTC) estimation and street-crossing decisions based on
visual information, there are still significant gaps in our knowledge about collision avoidance based on
auditory information, when visual information is additionally available or not.
Using state-of-the-art auditory and visual virtual-reality simulations of approaching vehicles, the experiments of the project will contribute to a broad range of
open questions concerning fundamental and applied aspects of collision avoidance, such as pedestrian behavior in interaction with vehicles driving at constant speed or accelerating, or potential risks posed by the different acoustic characteristics of electric
vehicles. We will develop observer models of audio-visual TTC-estimation and street-crossing decisions and conduct perceptual and behavioral evaluations of different auralization methods.
We are looking for a person with a Ph.D. and research experimence in a relevant area and motivated to make major contributions to the research strategy. Audio-visual
psychophysics and modeling combined with virtual reality to address the real-world issue of pedestrian safety is an innovative approach and will need methodological thinking and additional development. All details can be found here:
Best Daniel --------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz, Experimental Psychology & Laboratoire ICube UMR7357 Université de Strasbourg Wallstrasse 3 55122 Mainz Germany Phone ++49 (0) 6131 39 39274
Fax ++49 (0) 6131 39 39416 http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/oberfeld/ |