PhD Contract : "CrossKid: Towards the design of a serious-games-type device to raise children's awareness of road safety." M/F

26 Jan 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

CNRS

Department

Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

Research Field

Neurosciences
Psychological sciences » Cognitive science
Psychological sciences » Psychology

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

France

Application Deadline

16 Feb 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

1 Oct 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The CLLE Laboratory: Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics (CNRS Joint Research Unit N°5263, University of Toulouse), is located at the “Maison de la Recherche” of the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. The laboratory is equipped with the CCU experimental platform.
The laboratory is structured into 3 teams, each composed of an average of 25 Teachers-Researchers and Researchers:
• “Language Sciences” team, working more particularly on themes relating to linguistics;
• “Language and cognitive processes” team, focused on the interdisciplinarity between language and psychology;
• “Cognition in complex situations” team, working more particularly on themes of social and cognitive psychology.
The laboratory is also developing transversal research axes between these teams.

The doctoral student will join the psychology team called “Cognition in complex situations”.

Context: The thesis was co-financed by the MIDOC federation and the VILAGIL interdisciplinary project.
MIDOC Federation
The MIDOC federation (Intelligent and Sustainable Mobility in Occitania) is one of the 15 key challenges funded by the Occitanie region. It is made up of 20 laboratories or research centres in Occitanie, whose main missions are to resource and develop research related to the autonomous, acceptable and connected vehicle and sustainable, user-centred mobility services, promote scientific innovation in conjunction with regional businesses, enhance and strengthen platforms and experimental sites, develop new synergies and consolidate existing synergies between researchers from different disciplines to make a communitý.
By tackling the issue of road safety training for children and teenagers, the CrossKid research project is part of the MIDOC theme - Connected Urban Infrastructure to Protect Vulnerable People.
VILAGIL project
The 'Acceptability' section of the VILAGIL project involves the CLLE, LISST and SMAC-IRIT laboratories. The aim of this work is to understand the acceptability of all the mobility systems of tomorrow, whether you are a user of these vehicles or interacting with them. The VILAGIL project benefits from two technological platforms: Simulauto (a mobile driving simulator) and autOCampus (an experimental road incorporating connected street furniture and a level 5 vehicle).
The CrossKid research project aims to raise awareness of road safety, thereby helping to improve the acceptability of mobility solutions.

Field: Developmental and Cognitive Psychology

Objectives
The aim of this project is to understand and explain the determinants of accidents in child pedestrians aged 9 to 14 on the basis of their cognitive and emotional skills at this stage of development, and to propose an alternative road safety awareness system (CrossKid) based on children's understanding of the processes involved in their urban journeys on foot. This system will incorporate various tasks formatted according to the principle of serious games. Experimental validation of this CrossKid awareness programme will take place in virtual reality.

Duties of the doctoral student
The doctoral student will be responsible for :
1. To review the state of the art on child pedestrians, drawing on cognitive and developmental models (particularly attentional, memory and problem-solving models, which are a priori the most involved in pedestrian activity).
2. Participating in the identification of the characteristics most frequently encountered in accidents involving children and selecting representative accident scenarios on the basis of both the Bulletins d'Analyse des Accidents de la Circulation (BAAC) over the period 2010-2024 and a descriptive study of the behaviour of child pedestrians.
3. To design experimental protocols making it possible (1) to test the impact of the accident-causing factors identified; (2) to assess the effectiveness of a road safety awareness system (CrossKid) based on serious games focusing on the skills and knowledge needed for children to adapt correctly to the situation of being a pedestrian in an urban environment, in line with the state of the art.
4. Recruiting, collecting, processing and analysing data
5. Promoting results through articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and at national and international conferences
6. Taking part in meetings to monitor the Autocampus and Territoires Citoyens actions under the Vilagil project, as well as MIDOC monitoring meetings.
Keyword : Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Child pedestrian, Attention, Emotion, Learning, Virtual reality, Serious games

Supervisory team : Aurélie Simoës-Perlant, PU in Development Psychology (CLLE), Céline Lemercier, PU in Cognitive Psychology (CLLE), Guillaume Saint Pierre, CR-HDR in Sustainable Development (Cerema)

Profile required
Training/skills :
- Have obtained a Master 2 in Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Development Psychology or Cognitive Ergonomics or Cognitive Sc.
- Experience in human behaviour studies
- Fluency in spoken and written French and English
- Collection and statistical processing of qualitative and quantitative data
- In-depth knowledge of the experimental method
- Writing and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a team, ability to make proposals, autonomy, adaptability

Requirements

Research Field

Neurosciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Psychological sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Psychological sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Languages

FRENCH

Level

Basic

Research Field

Neurosciences

Years of Research Experience

None

Research Field

Psychological sciences » Cognitive science

Years of Research Experience

None

Research Field

Psychological sciences » Psychology

Years of Research Experience

None

Additional Information
Additional comments

More informations about CLLE on the website : http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr/

Website for additional job details

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5263-ANNCAM-055/Default.aspx

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

Country

France

City

TOULOUSE

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Candidat/Offre/UMR5263-ANNCAM-055/Candidater.aspx

Contact

City

TOULOUSE

Website

http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr

STATUS: EXPIRED