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Job: 3-year Doctoral Studentships at Centre for HCI Design, City University London

By Matthew Lombard | Published: February 21, 2012

Centre for HCI Design, City University London

3-year Doctoral Studentships
Closing date for applications: 9th March 2012

City University London is continuing its investment in academic excellence by offering up to 70 fully-funded, full-time, 3-year Doctoral Studentships for entry in October 2012.

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Job: University of Oxford Research Fellowship: Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI

By Matthew Lombard | Published: January 26, 2012

Alexander Tamas Research Fellowship: Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI
with the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology
University of Oxford
Faculty of Philosophy
The Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School

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Job: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist in IMMERSE project at UC Santa Cruz

By Matthew Lombard | Published: January 20, 2012

Job opening at UC Santa Cruz: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist

The Center for Games and Playable Media (CGPM) and the Expressive Intelligence Studio invites applications from outstanding individuals for a Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist position. We’re starting a new research project to create the next generation of interactive storytelling technology: autonomous characters, social simulation, and story management. The goal is to take as big a step beyond the interactive drama Facade as it took from previous efforts. Please see the following link for more information: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/immerse-project-job-opening. Both applicants with Ph.D.s and research experience and applicants without Ph.D.s but with industry experience are encouraged to apply. Read more on Job: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist in IMMERSE project at UC Santa Cruz…

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Job: Researcher at Ghent University – Games @ School (G@S) project

By Matthew Lombard | Published: December 14, 2011

JOB OPENING: FULLTIME PROJECT RESEARCHER
in the field of new media and ICT

The IBBT research group for Media & ICT (IBBT-MICT) of the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium, seeks to fill a fulltime position as project researcher in the field of new media and ICT.

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Job: Faculty positions at University of Connecticut

By Matthew Lombard | Published: December 5, 2011

The University of Connecticut has 5 openings, three at the assistant level (interpersonal, health, and new technology) and two open positions in Health Communication to begin in August of 2012.

The Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut (http://coms.uconn.edu/) invites applications for three tenure track faculty positions at the assistant professor level. The minimum qualifications for each position include: a completed Ph.D. in Communication or related field by time of appointment; evidence of research productivity; a publication record; the ability to work in a collegial manner with a diverse faculty, staff and student population; experience teaching undergraduate courses; and the ability to teach quantitative research methods. Candidates must possess the ability to conduct research in one of the three fields outlined below; to obtain grant funding to support research; and the ability and have experience performing professional service commensurate with rank. It is preferred that candidates possess the ability to contribute through research, teaching, and/or public engagement to the diversity and excellence of the learning experience. Read more on Job: Faculty positions at University of Connecticut…

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Job: Tenure track faculty position in Emergent Media at Temple University

By Matthew Lombard | Published: December 1, 2011

Position Announcement

Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media
Temple University

Tenure Track position in Emergent Media

The department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media (BTMM) at Temple University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in Emergent Media to begin in fall 2012. We seek a scholar whose work addresses the challenges and opportunities in emergent media, particularly social media environments including mobile media and gaming; other possible areas include telepresence and virtual/augmented reality. The ideal candidate would be qualified to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in media theory and analysis including Media Communication Research (social science emphasis); Technology & Culture; Mobile Media; The Video Game Industry and Game Culture; Information Technology Policy; and Information Society. Candidates must hold a PhD, and demonstrate evidence of excellence in teaching and a promising record of scholarship.

The department has approximately 750 majors who study audio, video and electronic media production; management of media institutions; and social and psychological functions, processes and effects of traditional and emergent media. It offers a master’s degree and contributes to an inter-departmental doctoral program in Mass Media and Communication. BTMM is one of six departments in a large, diverse and dynamic School of Communications and Theater. Read more on Job: Tenure track faculty position in Emergent Media at Temple University…

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Job: 1-year postdoc on “Laughing Virtual Characters” research at TELECOM ParisTech

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 29, 2011

Laughing Virtual Characters

The research is part of a European Project ILHAIRE. It is a 3 years FET-Open project whose main topic is laughter. Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.

ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different disciplines linked to this objective. Read more on Job: 1-year postdoc on “Laughing Virtual Characters” research at TELECOM ParisTech…

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Job: Faculty positions in Game Design and Interactive Media at Northeastern University

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 16, 2011

Tenure Track Faculty Position in Game Design and Interactive Media Joint between College of Arts, Media and Design and College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University

Job code: 114350

Northeastern University is seeking one or more tenure track faculty for interdisciplinary positions in Game Design joint within the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Arts, Media and Design starting September 1, 2012.  Positions will be filled at the assistant, associate or full professor rank depending on the qualifications of the candidate.

Northeastern University is in the heart of Boston and world leader in experiential learning. In the past few years, Northeastern University has made a major commitment to interdisciplinary education and research in select fields with the goal of achieving international leadership in these fields. The Game Design and Interactive Media program is one of the areas selected for growth and is being developed as a joint effort between the colleges of Arts, Media and Design and Computer and Information Science. Read more on Job: Faculty positions in Game Design and Interactive Media at Northeastern University…

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Job: PhD openings in the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 2, 2011

The Exertion Games Lab (exertiongameslab.org) in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking exceptional PhD candidates to research the future of exertion games and play.

The Exertion Games Lab is a new lab that researches the future of gaming in order to understand how to design better interactive experiences, in particular games that require intense physical effort from players. We call it the intersection between gaming and sports. Our research is focused on the merging of play and the active human body, drawing from research streams such as interaction design, human-computer interaction and computer games research.

The culture in the Exertion Games Lab is one of interdisciplinary work. At the Exertion Games Lab, we do not just philosophize and write about the future, we actively invent it. We emphasize the development of working prototypes in order to fully understand what play is, why we play, and how we will play in the future. We do this because we believe playing and gaming is a fundamental part of what makes us humans who we are, and an understanding of this brings us closer to our vision of a better world filled with interactive technologies that support human values.

We are looking for exceptional candidates who value an interdisciplinary perspective, are highly motivated, willing to learn a variety of new skills, can think outside the box, are creative as well as technical, and also have highly developed analytical and communicative skills. Read more on Job: PhD openings in the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia…

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Job: Post doctoral researcher on ultrasound sensor/haptics project at University of Bristol

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 1, 2011

The Bristol Interaction and Graphics group (big.cs.bris.ac.uk) of the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in the area of ultrasound sensor use and measurement or in haptic interaction. Ideally, you will have expertise in both topics, and it is anticipated that you will have skills in one of these two topics with an interest in learning more about the other.

The project will investigate the use of ultrasound transducers to provide ‘feelable’ feedback through air to provide multi-point haptic feedback on the surface of a multi-touch horizontal surface. You will develop experiments and simulations concerning the use of ultrasound sensors for generating force-feedback at multiple locations on a surface and identify physical setup for an integrated multi-touch system. Read more on Job: Post doctoral researcher on ultrasound sensor/haptics project at University of Bristol…

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