The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) has opened a full time (100%) position for a at the Department of Innovative Technologies (DTI) located in Lugano, within the . Contract start 01.09.2026 or date to be agreed upon.

Scope and purpose of the position

The PhD student will contribute to ongoing national and European research initiatives focused on the development of adaptive systems that leverage multimodal data to support inclusive interactive experiences across domains such as education, cultural environments, and therapeutic contexts.

The research focuses on the design and implementation of systems capable of adapting interactive experiences based on user activity and contextual information collected in real time. In this context, multimodal data sources including video, audio, inertial data, and interaction data may be used to derive structured representations of events and user activity that can inform system behavi...