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JOBS: Telefonica Digital Research

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.

We are seeking candidates for Researcher/PostDoc/Intern positions to strengthen and complement our efforts in the areas we currently work on:

  • Distributed systems and networking
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile computing
  • Multimedia analysis
  • Speech processing
  • Recommender systems
  • User modeling and machine learning
  • Security and privacy
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Sensors that understand facial expressions, ‘virtual reality’ screens: Google’s Android boss reveals the phone of the future

[From The Daily Mail; see the video interview at CNN International; a related interview excerpt from 2012 follows]

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Sensors that can understand your facial expressions and ‘virtual reality’ screens: Google’s Android boss reveals the phone of the future

  • Matias Duarte said making world more ‘tangible’ is next step
  • Team also working on Google’s Glass wearable computer
  • Computers must work ‘as people expect not the other way round’

By Steve Robson
Published: 25 February 2013 | Updated: 26 February 2013

The mobile phones of the future will recognise our faces and hands and create a world that is like virtual reality.

These were the claims of Matias Duarte, Google’s Director of Android User Experience talking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

He said the ability to to make objects more ‘tangible’ will be the next major development in mobile technology.… read more. “Sensors that understand facial expressions, ‘virtual reality’ screens: Google’s Android boss reveals the phone of the future”

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