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Announcement for a BIC scholarship in the scope of the FCT project SafeHomeHealthCare (SHHC), PTDC/EIA-EIA/108352/2008

23 Feb 2012 · News

Announcement for a BIC scholarship in the scope of the FCT project SafeHomeHealthCare (SHHC), PTDC/EIA-EIA/108352/2008

There is an open position for a scholarship in the scope of the project PTDC/EIA-EIA/108352/2008, entitled “SafeHomeHealthCare: Interference-free Home Health-Care Smart Spaces using Search Algorithms and Meta-Reality Reflection”. This project is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through structural EU founds and national MCTES founds. The conditions are the following:

1. Duration and Conditions: 3 months, beginning April 2012, with exclusivity, according FCT regulations (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/normasbolsasemprojectos.phtml.pt).

2. Goals and Activities: specification and development of a Personal Activity Detection system (PAD) to be used in a home assisted living environment. This system should be integrated with a set of other systems that will make part of the intelligent smart space environment for assisted living to be used/assembled in the scope of the SHHC project; the PAD system should combine information gathered through mobile devices (cf. Smartphones or PDAs equipped with, e.g., accelerometer and gyroscope) and images from digital cameras installed in the environment. The information will be collected and transmitted through standard communicating technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.) so that it may be used in the detection of location and activity of persons at home (e.g., detecting falls, medication or food intake, position and location, levels of activity, movement and efforts, etc.). Scientific Supervisor: Rui Silva Moreira.

3. Academic Degree: Lic. Informatics Engineering, Specialization in Mobile Computing. Other areas may be accepted if considered in the scope of the project.

4. Salary: 385,00€/month, according to the budget of the Project and amounts fixed by FCT (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.pt) plus Voluntary Social Insurance to Social Security (optional).

5. Documents: motivation letter; updated Curriculum Vitae; authenticated copy of the degree; copies of the published papers; recommendation letter (optional). Candidates may be called for an interview.

6. Dates:

  • Applications: should be delivered or sent by mail (registered with reception confirmation; applications sent by email will not be considered) between 24/2/2012 and 23/03/2012, to: Prof. Doutor Rui Silva Moreira, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
  • Period of analysis: 26 to 27/03/2012.
  • Interviews (jury may call the candidates for an interview in UFP, if necessary): 28/03/2012.
  • Results: will be published in the ISUS group site isus.ufp.pt and communicated to candidates): until 29/03/2012.

7. This announcement will be published in:

8. Contacts for more information: rmoreira@ufp.edu.pt

 

 

Lic. Informatics Engineering, specialization in Mobile Computing. Other areas will be accepted if considered in the scope of the project.

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