Ukri Centre Doctoral Tender

Scope Social intelligence is an important aspect of human cognition making us capable of dealing with others attitudes intentions feelings personality and expectations. Correspondingly Artificial Social Intelligence is the area of Artificial Intelligence AI that aims at endowing machines with such social intelligence i.e. with the ability to interact with their users in the same way as people interact with one another. While being driven by technological needs Artificial Social Intelligence is an inherently interdisciplinary field that revolves around humans as much as it revolves around the building of machines. As a result the proposed Centre for Doctoral Training CD is based on the collaboration between different experts in human behaviour - students will be trained by specialists ranging in expertise from neural physiological cognitive and psychological processes to verbalnonverbal societal communication - and experts in AI methodologies. They will gain expertise and skills that will range from the synthesis of humansocietal interactive behaviour to the distillation of knowledge from sensors and data.