PhD position on perception and action in interceptive behaviors in sports
at Universiteit Twente
7522 Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 26 Oct, 2024 | ANG 2 Annual | 29 Jul, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
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Hours
40 hr.
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Salary gross/monthly
based on full-time
€ 2,872 - € 3,670
Deadline
15 Sep 2024
This PhD position is about the continuous visual guidance of locomotor behavior in team sports. In this project, you will develop and test ecological models of how athletes (decide to) act upon moving targets. Existing models typically dissociate decision making and motor control. Either focusing on the information that is needed to perceive relevant action possibilities (known as affordances) or focusing on the information that is needed to control behavior (known as control laws).
In a recent modelling study on the kinematics of catching in baseball, we found that the information that guides the control of action might actually be the same information that also informs decision making. This unification of information challenges traditional models of control in perception-action research. With this PhD project, we aim to extend our model to include all interceptive behaviors in sports, such as tackling / evading an opponent or running to receive a pass.
In this position, you will collect kinematic data that allows you to make inferences on the perceptual information that is used to guide interceptive behaviors in sports. Data may be collected using sensor platforms such as XSens Link; OptiTrack; JohanSports GPS tracking; and Tobii eye tracking. You will also work with – and build on – Virtual Reality setups that allow you to investigate interceptive behaviors in a range of sport specific scenarios. You will perform high quality and internationally visible research that gets published at top tier conferences and journals.
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REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
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7522 Enschede, Netherlands