PhD Contract : "IN BULK (EN VRAC, in French): Study on the effect of an immersive device (VR) for using an electric scooter under the influence of alcohol and narcotics on the safety attitudes and behaviors of young adults." M/F

27 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, Language, Ergonomics) is a CNRS UMR created in January 2007 and mainly hosted on the Toulouse Jean Jaurès University site. It is a multidisciplinary research unit relating to Cognitive Sciences: the work carried out there covers the fields, more or less broad in scope, of linguistics, psychology, computer science, philosophy, education and neuroscience. The laboratory, made up of 205 members, is structured into 3 teams each composed of an average of 25 Teachers-Researchers and Researchers:
• “Languages and language” 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.
It also welcomes many doctoral and post-doctoral students.
CLLE is a CNRS UMR with the CCU experimental platform.

Context : The thesis results from co-financing between the MIDOC federation and the VILAGIL interdisciplinary project
Partners: The thesis will be co-directed by Philippe Truillet (ELLIPSE Team – IRIT Laboratory, Toulouse).
MIDOC Federation
The MIDOC federation ( Mobility – Intelligent and Sustainable in Occitanie) is one of the 15 key challenges financed by the Occitanie region. It is made up of 20 laboratories or research centers in Occitanie whose main missions consist of resourcing and developing research related to autonomous, acceptable and connected vehicles and sustainable and user-centered mobility services, promoting scientific innovation in link with regional companies, promote and strengthen platforms and experimental grounds, develop new synergies and consolidate existing synergies between researchers from different disciplines to create a community.
VILAGIL Project
The “Acceptability” axis of the VILAGIL project involves the CLLE, LISST and SMAC-IRIT laboratories. The purpose of this work is to understand the acceptability of all of tomorrow's mobility devices, whether we are users of these vehicles or interacting with them. The VILAGIL project benefits from two technological platforms: Simulauto (mobile-based car driving simulator) and autOCampus (experimental road integrating connected street furniture and a level 5 vehicle).
The EN VRAC research project seeks to raise awareness of road safety, thus helping to improve the acceptability of mobility solutions.

Domain : Cognitive and ergonomic psychology

Goals
While they represent only 8% of the French population, 20-25 year olds constitute 16% of road deaths. Very fond of new technologies, they are also the first users of Motorized Personal Transport Vehicles (EDPM) whose accident rate is also increasing due to their misuse (under the influence of alcohol/drugs). The poor effectiveness of traditional prevention campaigns (centered on the car driver, in a “lecture-based” format) requires the development of new tools, more adapted to the target audiences to encourage the emergence of safer behaviors and attitudes. EN VRAC aims to design and validate an innovative system to raise awareness of the risks of the influence of alcohol and drugs on driving adapted to the major mode of travel of young people (EDPM) and in a format corresponding to them (Mixed Reality).
EN VRAC offers an innovative solution to raise awareness among young people of the risks involved in using EDPMs under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Current campaigns, based on lecture-type training, are focused on car or motorcycle drivers, which no longer represents the majority reality of mobility among young people. They therefore do not respond satisfactorily to the needs and expectations of young people. In this, they prove to be unsuitable, undoubtedly partly explaining their poor effectiveness in encouraging safer behavior among young people on the road. The EN VRAC solution is a mixed immersion device (integrating the projection of a scenario of using an electric scooter in a VR headset coupled with equipment on the person) allowing the young person to “ put themselves in the skin ” of an EDPM user under the influence of alcohol and drugs. In doing so, it responds to a double problem: firstly addressing a mobility context corresponding to the practices of young people and finally proposing an engaging awareness format.

Missions of the doctoral student
The doctoral student will have the following missions:
1. Carry out a state of the art on road safety, particularly with regard to electric scooters, the effects of alcohol and narcotics on cognitive processes, multimodal immersive methods and devices (immersive Virtual Reality) to raise awareness of disability and to aging and their effects on human behavior.
2. Design a questionnaire study on the mobility behaviors of young adults, in particular electric scooters.
3. Design an observational study of risky behavior on electric scooters
4. Participate in the design of an immersive VR device for traveling on an electric scooter (BULK device) in an urban space integrating the perceptual- cognitive -motor impairments linked to the use of alcohol and/or drugs.
5. Develop a protocol for evaluating the impact of raising awareness among young adults through the EN VRAC system on the attitudes and behavior of young adults in the use of electric scooters under the influence of alcohol and/or alcohol. narcotics
6. Collect, process and analyze data from designed studies.
7. Interpret results in relation to scientific literature
8. Promote results through the writing of scientific articles (IACL) and communications in national and international congresses and scientific seminars.
9. Participate in monitoring meetings for Autocampus and Citizen Territories actions of the Vilagil project as well as MIDOC monitoring meetings
Keywords: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Ergonomics, Alcohol and cognitive processes, narcotics and cognitive processes, attitudes, behaviors, Immersive virtual reality
Required profile
Training/skills:
• Have obtained a Master 2 in Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Ergonomics or Cognitive Sc.
• Experience in studies of human behavior
• Fluency in oral and written French and English
• Collection and statistical processing of qualitative and quantitative data
• Mastery of the descriptive approach and survey and observation techniques
• Very good mastery of the experimental approach
• Writing and relational qualities
• Ability to work in a team, strength of proposal, autonomy, adaptability

Requirements

Research Field

Neurosciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Psychological sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Psychological sciences

Education Level

PhD 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

Applications can be submitted in French or English.

National ou international trips may be considered.

Insofar as the circumstances would require teleworking, the recruited person must be equipped with suitable computer equipment allowing him to work remotely.

Website for additional job details

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5263-ANNCAM-056/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-056/Candidater.aspx

Contact

City

TOULOUSE

Website

http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr

STATUS: EXPIRED