[Tccc] Open PhD position: Activity and context inference for adaptive lighting in healthcare at TU Eindhoven

A PhD position is available on "Activity and context inference for adaptive lighting
in healthcare" at Signal Processing Systems, TU Eindhoven, NL.

Project description:
Both artificial and natural light surrounds us every day. It cues day-night rhythms,
moods, attention, and could communicate information such as for home care patients.
These properties are particularly enhanced through novel solid-state lighting
technologies (LED and OLED) in combination with adaptive control functions. Thus, new
enriching environments could be enabled by actuating these lighting functions in
smart ways. Activity and context information on the environment and its occupants,
gathered by a distributed modular architecture of sensing and processing elements can
enable this functionality. In this project applications of adaptive lighting are
sought in patient care with regard to coaching daily rhythms, and in an educational
setting, regarding attention and interaction.

The goal of this PhD project is to create conceptual frameworks and practical
demonstrations of activity and context-aware functions in adaptive lighting
environments. In particular, the candidate's work will focus on developing novel
modular and adaptive activity and context recognition techniques that can be used to
control lighting functions based on information obtained from ambient and on-body
multimodal sensors. An important aspect will be the dynamic self-adaptive operation.
The candidate's work will span electronic systems, pilot studies, signal processing,
and pattern recognition fields, with a focus on the latter.

This PhD project is embedded in a joint endeavour involving in total 3 PhD students
from the departments industrial design, computer science, and electrical engineering
at TU Eindhoven. Thus this project will provide unique opportunities to become
acquainted and inspired by related fields in distributed system architectures,
wireless sensor networks, human-computer interaction, and design. Besides
demonstrated talents and experience, teamwork in this multidisciplinary group is a
primary concern for the candidate selection process.

For further information please contact Oliver Amft, amft@tue.nl. Applications
including a full CV and a letter of interests should be submitted to the same
address. The position will be filled as soon as possible.

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Oliver Amft, PhD Phone: +31 40 24-7 5261
Assistant Professor Fax: +31 40 24-6 6508
Signal Processing Systems Mobile: +31 63 159 58 21

http://www.sps.ele.tue.nl/members/O.Amft email: amft@tue.nl

TU Eindhoven (TU/e), Location: Den Dolch 2, PT 3.23
Mail: P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
ETH Zurich, Location: ETZ H60.1
Mail: Gloriastrasse 35, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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