Overview
Four-year employed PhD using VR/XR to study and design safer, more inclusive interactions between automated vehicles and vulnerable road users, including people with disabilities.
Complete research opportunity details
The project is based in TU Delft's Mobility in eXtended Reality Lab. Research includes accessible VR simulators, experiments on automated-vehicle and vulnerable-road-user interaction, modelling human decision making, external human-machine interface design and real-world evaluation. TU Delft lists a gross monthly PhD salary rising from EUR 3,059 to EUR 3,881 on a full-time basis, plus holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants need a relevant master's degree such as Human-Computer Interaction, Transportation, Computer Science or a related field, plus strong VR/XR development skills using Unity or Unreal, experimental research capability, programming skills such as Python or C#, statistics and strong English communication.
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Verified on the official TU Delft Careers page as open with submission possible until 30 August 2026, job ID 3625. The source gives no exact closing clock time, so no timestamp was fabricated.
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