promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

PhD position in the field of audiovisual virtual reality at the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics at RWTH Aachen University

Application deadline: Sun 25 Aug 2024

We (Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA), RWTH Aachen University) have an open position (100% TV-L E13) in the AUDICTIVE Priority Program (www.spp2236-audictive.de).

As part of the DFG Priority Program AUDICTIVE, we are looking for a PhD student in the field of acoustics for an interdisciplinary project with project partners from psychology and virtual reality.

The aim of this research project is to investigate audiovisual variations of realistic listening situations (communication situations/classroom) in virtual reality (VR) and their effects on the auditory performance/attention/listening effort/listening comprehension etc. of listeners. By investigating the effects of different features of audiovisual VR on the above-mentioned cognitive performances, we aim to gain important insights for creating realistic and immersive verbal social interactions and thus contribute to current VR-based cognition research and provide recommendations for further research.

All details about the position and application can be found here (German language skills required): https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/kbag/file/V000008052/

We look forward to receiving your application!

The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in to promote development and progress of acoustics in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. EAA gathers 33 societies of acoustics and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe (ISE).

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