<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">PhD position eye-tracking and interaction in Flemish Sign Language<br class="">KU Leuven (Belgium)</b><br class=""><br class="">Full-time postion in a 4-year research project<br class=""><br class="">For the research group Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse (MIDI) at KU Leuven, we are looking for a PhD student for a newly awarded project entitled: "Eye gaze in multimodal interaction management. An interdisciplinary study on speech, music and signed language". More specifically, we invite candidates for the third component of this project, viz. an empirical approach to the role of eye gaze in Flemish Sign Language interactions, based on eye-tracking data. <br class=""><br class="">The PhD candidate will strengthen our team for the above-mentioned project, awarded to Geert Brône, Myriam Vermeerbergen and Kurt Feyaerts (KU Leuven, Dept. Linguistics, MIDI) by the KU Leuven research fund. The MIDI research group (Multimodality, Interaction & Discourse: <a href="https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/midi" class="">https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/midi</a>) unites researchers with an interest in the study of language in interaction, with a specific focus on the social, cognitive and multimodal dimension of language use.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All relevant infomation on the project and the PhD position can be found here: <a href="https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53771983" class="">https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53771983</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deadline for application is 31 July 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="interesse" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For more information please contact Prof. dr. Geert Brône, tel.: +32 3 502 15 16, mail: <a href="mailto:geert.brone@kuleuven.be" class="">geert.brone@kuleuven.be</a> or Prof. dr. Myriam Vermeerbergen, tel.: +32 3 502 15 70, mail: <a href="mailto:myriam.vermeerbergen@kuleuven.be" class="">myriam.vermeerbergen@kuleuven.be</a></div><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Best wishes,</div><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Myriam Vermeerbergen</div><div class="omschrijving" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="omschrijving" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/midi/members/" class="">www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/midi/members/</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">myriamvermeerbergen</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/vlaamsegebarentaal" class="">www.arts.kuleuven.be/vlaamsegebarentaal</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span><span><span><img height="53" width="160" apple-inline="yes" id="BB64C507-D2D0-42D3-8DFA-E6B577028489" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:ED368856-BE75-4D4C-B122-9D99074205DE" class=""></span><span><img height="54" width="160" apple-inline="yes" id="0C6F4CDD-6C82-43EB-9782-01730DB8E6BF" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:CEE17B29-2AA7-4405-8080-A91259C7C5F0" class=""></span>
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