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Third-cycle subject: Technology and Health
The doctoral position is offered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems. We conduct research on medical information and communications systems in health care, nursing, rehabilitation, physical exercise and health.
The project focuses on the ‘Adoption and use of socially assistive robots for ethically sustainable care’. Socially assistive robots are assistive technologies providing physical, cognitive and social support for independent living for older adults or persons in a risk of disability. The implementation of these technologies in care practices remains a challenge, and health systems need to be designed to support patient-centeredness in robot-assisted care in an ethically sustainable way.
The doctoral student will investigate the adoption and use of socially assistive robots in patient-caregiver interactions, explore the development potential of socially assistive robots to enhance quality of care, and create new health system designs for robot-assisted care. The methodology will be based on digital ethnography, interaction analysis and participatory design, involving older adults and their care providers in the design process of new health systems designs for robot-assisted care.
The research area contributes to the digitalisation of health care, welfare technology, social robotics and artificial intelligence in the field on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Supervision: The doctoral student will be supervised by Professor Sebastiaan Meijer and Assistant Professor Sanna Kuoppamäki
To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:
In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.
Target degree: Doctoral degree
Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | According to agreement |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | C-2021-0701 |
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Published | 13.May.2021 |
Last application date | 23.Jun.2021 11:59 PM CEST |