Applications are invited for a two-year visiting postdoctoral appointment in multimedia communication in the Perceptual Science Laboratory, under the direction of the Principal Investigator, Dominic Massaro. Effective date of appointment is flexible. Salary is negotiable. Experience in speech science, computer programming, computer animation, and experimental psychology desirable. Goals of the project are 1) to develop and evaluate a computer-animated talking head in several applied situations; 2) to create applications of this technology within a general speech toolkit, with an emphasis on language training; and 3) to carry out empirical and theoretical research on multimodal speech processing. The candidate will work closely with the Principal Investigator, other researchers, other postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students.

Second Position Available: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow on Language Learning in Children with Autism, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Applications are invited for a two-year visiting postdoctoral appointment in multimedia communication in the Perceptual Science Laboratory, under the direction of the Principal Investigator, Dominic Massaro. Effective date of appointment is July 1, 2002. Salary is negotiable. Experience in language acquisition and experimental psychology desirable. The goal of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of computer-assisted speech and language tutors with autistic children to train and develop their language skills, and to determine whether these skills improve their communication in everyday situations. Our language-training program utilizes a computer-animated talking head, Baldi, as the conversational agent, who guides students through a variety of exercises designed to teach vocabulary and grammar, and to develop linguistic and phonological awareness.

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