Interaction Lab and Knowledge Transfer Manager, City University London

Reference Number: 60010778
Location: Northampton Square
School / Central Function: Conjoint Schools of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and Informatics
Department: School of Informatics
Contract Duration: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Salary Range (£): 34223 – 39649

Background

Outstanding individual to manage City University London Interaction lab resources, business development, and conduct UX consultancy services and knowledge transfer activities.

City University London is a global University committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location. The University is in the top 5% of universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012/13 and fifteen of its subject areas were identified as undertaking world-leading or internationally-excellent research in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

The Interaction Lab and Knowledge Transfer Manager manages the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design’s Interaction Lab within the School of Informatics. The Lab is a 75m2 facility that provides advanced digital facilities and consultancy services to bring together academic research and teaching with digital practitioners in Tech City and the wider environment. Read more on Job: Interaction Lab and Knowledge Transfer Manager, City University London…

Brooklyn Atlantis (http://brooklynatlantis.poly.edu/) is an National Science Foundation-funded project in which we design and implement peer production systems consisting of socially interacting volunteers and underwater robots that jointly perform distributed tasks.

Read more on Job: PhD studentship at NSF-funded Brooklyn Atlantis…

The Open University is offering fully funded, full-time, three-year PhD studentships to start in October 2013.

Applications and enquiries are welcome in the following areas, or any area related to HCI and Music.  Applicants may also construct their own topics.

New kinds of Musical Interaction
Gestural Interfaces
New Musical Instruments
Interactive Music Systems
Computational Models of Music Perception
New approaches to traditional musical activities
Tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible
Collaborative Music Interaction
Evolutionary and Biologically-inspired Music Systems
New Interactive Tools for Rhythm, Harmony, Melody or Timbre. Read more on Jobs: Funded 3-year PhD studentships in HCI and Music at The Open University (UK)…

The Telefonica Digital Research group was created in 2006 and follows an open research model in collaboration with Universities and other research institutions, promoting the dissemination of scientific results both through publications in top-tier peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and technology transfer. Our multi-disciplinary and international team comprises more than 20 full time researchers, holding PhD degrees in various disciplines of computer science and electrical engineering.

Read more on JOBS: Telefonica Digital Research…

Technician on Project Programmer/Developer (M/F)

The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire outstanding researchers at its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust(SnT).

SnT is a recently formed centre carrying out interdisciplinary research in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems and services, often in collaboration with industrial, governmental or international partners.  SnT is active in several international research projects funded by the EU 7th framework programme and the European Space Agency.

For further information you may check: www.securityandtrust.lu.

Project Reference: SNT-ColT-EU-LCTY-1012

Contract: 6 months fixed-term contract (CDD)

Status: Employee – Full Time (40 hrs/week)

Number of Positions: 1

Your Role

You will be a member of the EC funded LiveCity project www.Livecity-psp.eu which is developing a set of HD video test applications that will connect a number of European Cities for us in areas such as e-health, cultural heritage and education. Your role will be to assist in the research, design and development of a cultural heritage game that will connect the cities of Luxembourg and Athens. The experience will use the new Internet right-of-way technology developed within LiveCity coupled with advanced multi-touch tables to deliver a rich interactive experience that will be live for one year in two cultural venues. You will have a chance to work alongside some of Europe’s leading telecom providers such as P&T, OTE (Greece), Deutsche Telekon, Telefonica O2 (Ireland) as well as SMEs and leading academic institutions.

You will be a member of a research team focusing on human-computer interaction issues across a range of domains that is part of the SECAN-Lab research Group which is led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel. Read more on Job: Developer/Technician in HCI for EC funded LiveCity project at University of Luxembourg…

The University of Skövde (Sweden) is a small and modern university with highly relevant programs and socially beneficial research. Our students and staff have the prerequisites for success through our innovative thinking, openness to strategic collaborations with the surrounding world and because we take good care of our students and employees. The University has approximately 500 employees and about 11000 students and is an important asset in the development of the district.

The School of Humanities and Informatics is looking for a Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration

Ref nr HS 2013/20-42

The position refers to the area of Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration, which at the University of Skövde is defined as studies of the technical, cultural and social forms and expressions of new media. The focus is on how the forms and expressions of the media are produced, distributed and consumed, and how narration and aesthetics are given expression and are influenced by technology.

In the research team Technology and Environments in New Media, research is carried out in areas such as narration in different media forms in a contemporary as well as a historical perspective, game development, game study, cultural heritage and game technology, and sound- and image narration. We particularly welcome applicants, whose research has clear connections to at least two of these research fields. Read more on Job: The University of Skovde seeks Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration…

Internships at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies

http://ict.usc.edu/academics/internships/

The University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies offers interdisciplinary paid summer internships for creative and technical students wishing to pursue careers in embodied conversational agents, simulation, interactive media and virtual reality fields.

The official application process for ICT’s summer 2013 internship program is now open.

View the list of internship positions.

Apply now.

The deadline to apply is February 17, 2013. Read more on Jobs: Paid summer internships at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies…

Dear all,

We are seeking a Digital Project Manager to work at UCL Museums and Public Engagement, London.

The UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is a space for innovation and experimentation with new digital technologies. We are developing new interactive applications that provide unparalleled access and engagement with the museums’ collection for visitors.

The Digital Project Manager will be responsible for designing and overseeing the production of digital applications using 3D images and a website housing a 3D image library and relevant applications. The postholder will be responsible for auditing existing prototype 3D applications, proposing new digital applications for web, mobile devices and museum spaces, and project managing the development of the interactive website. They will also initiate and supervise the user testing and evaluation processes. The post is funded for 9 months in the first instance. Read more on Job: Digital Project Manager at UCL Museums and Public Engagement, London…

2 PhD positions in Interaction Design and Psychology

Function: PhD-student
Departments: Department of Industrial Design
FTE: 1,0
Date off: 20/01/2013
Reference number: V51.1654

We are seeking candidates for a collaborative project between the Department of Industrial Design (ID) of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) & the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building (DAB) of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

PhD Position 1 (Media Creation Devices Supporting Remembering) will be based at:
The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, www.tue.nl) is one of Europe’s leading research universities. The Eindhoven area, in the southern part of the Netherlands, is one of Europe’s top ‘innovation ecosystems’, with many high-tech companies and institutes. TU/e is intertwined with many of these companies and institutes, and research at TU/e is characterized by a combination of academic excellence and industrial relevance. Historic cities such as Amsterdam, The Hague, Maastricht, Brussels, and Antwerp are all within easy reach from Eindhoven.

The Department of Industrial Design (ID) of the TU/e, founded in 2001, is a rapidly growing department with over 600 students, both Bachelor and Master, around 130 research staff members and about 60 lecturers and support staff. ID focuses on intelligent services, products, and related services. These a priori innovative systems enable people to interact with the environment in an optimal and flexible way.

PhD Position 2 (Effects of Personal Media on Remembering) will be based at:
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS, www.uts.edu.au) is a world class research intensive university with a rapidly growing reputation for its research quality and impact across a wide range of discipline fields. We are committed to practical innovation and to the development of impact-driver research that benefits industry and the broader community.
UTS is ranked in the top 500 research universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. In 2012 UTS was ranked 29th in the world in the new QS Top 50 Under 50 rankings.

The Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building (DAB) of UTS seeks to lead the development of the academic disciplines of design, architecture and the built environment. The Australian Government’s 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation assessing research quality within Australia’s higher education institutions ranks the faculty’s design research as being at world standard and as the highest of the eleven universities in the state of NSW.

Project description:
These two PhD-positions are part of a body of research called “Materialising Memories”, which studies how we can design for improved reliving of personal memories through the innovative use of (digital) media. The trends show that people create more and more digital media, without organising or archiving, which in the end prevents them from using the media as desired. Materialising Memories looks into several relevant aspects, for example, what type of remembering experiences can be identified in everyday life.

The TU/e PhD-position (ref.number 12666-1) will focus on facilitating the creation of fewer, but more appropriate personal media for an intended remembering experience. This will be done using a user-centred design process and the implementation of innovative interaction designs.

The UTS PhD-scholarship (ref.number 12666-2) is flexible as long as it is relevant for the Materialising Memories research. For example, it could focus on finding out what the effects are of personal (digital) media and media designs on remembering in everyday life, in the short- and long-term. Read more on Jobs: 2 PhD positions in Interaction Design and Psychology – “Materialising Memories”…

The innovative educational use of immersive 3-D virtual environments

To celebrate the University’s research successes, the University of Hull is offering one UK/EU PhD Scholarship, or International Fees Bursaries for candidates with a 1^st, 2(i), or equivalent, applying for the following project in Faculty of Education:

Closing date 11th January 2013. Studentships will start in September 2013

Supervisors:

Dr. Stewart Martin, stewart.martin@hull.ac.uk 01482 465191, Centre for Educational Studies

Dr. Kevin Burden, k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk 01482 466731, Centre for Educational Studies

The Faculty of Education invites applications for a PhD studentship that will explore the applications of immersive virtual environments (virtual worlds) in Higher Education for one or more of the following: creative approaches to learning and teaching; pedagogy; the development of taxonomies and assessment; individual identity in the virtual world. Read more on Job: University of Hull studentship – innovative educational use of immersive 3-D virtual environments…