[Note especially the fourth research area under “Duties > Research.” –Matthew] Call for Applications Full-time Professor position in Media and Health Communication Leuven School for Mass Communication Research Department of Communication Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences KU Leuven (Belgium) (ref. ZAP-2020-182) https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55921882?hl=en&lang=en Application deadline: February 22, 202 The fulltime professor position (open-rank) will be held within the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, a research unit within the Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven (Belgium). KU Leuven represents a leading academic institution in Europe that is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms…

Call for Applications Full-Time Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in Emerging Communication Technologies and Social Media for Fall 2021 Department of Communication Studies The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Ewing, New Jersey (Position 20001246) https://tcnj.taleo.net/careersection/00_ex_faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=20001246&lang=en Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Ewing, New Jersey, is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive campus and curriculum are critical to our educational mission. Tenure track faculty contribute to the…

Call for Applications (Senior) Research Associate / Post Doc in AR/VR (50-100%) Immersive Realities Research Lab Lucerne School of Information Technology Switzerland https://recruitingapp-2678.umantis.com/Vacancies/2018/Description/1 Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis with interviews ideally taking place in mid-December 2020 The Lucerne School of Information Technology is the first school in a Swiss university of applied sciences to be devoted to IT. The new Zug-Rotkreuz campus offers bachelor degree programmes in Digital Ideation, Computer Science, Information and Cyber Security, International IT Management and Business Information Technology and master’s degree programmes in Engineering and Business Information Technology. Rounding out the School’s offer…

Assistant Professor (Research) Faculty Opening Stanford University The Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16840 Application Deadline: December 1, 2020 The Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University invites applications for a fixed-term Assistant Professor (Research) faculty position. The appointment is for a non-renewable term of five years, beginning in September 2021. The selected candidate will be appointed in an appropriate disciplinary department (e.g., Communications, Computer Science, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology), and will be a Junior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. We are seeking applicants from all areas of research related to artificial intelligence,…

Call for Applications Junior Professorship with tenure-track in Human-Robot Interaction Institute for Computer Science University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/midas/2020/Ausschreibungen/2020-09-24_Ausschreibung_HRI_en.pdf Application deadline: 4 November 2020 The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Würzburg has an open tenured position in the Institute for Computer Science starting at the earliest possible date. The junior professorship is to be filled on a temporary basis as a civil servant for an initial period of three years. The temporary civil service relationship is to be extended on probation for a total duration of up to six years. The tenure and appointment…

Research Fellow: Human Factors and innovative technologies for surgical interventions UCL Interaction Centre – Division of Psychology and Language Sciences – London Hours – Full Time Salary (inclusive of London allowance) £35,965 – £40,062 per annum Ref: 1871388 https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1871388 Closing Date: 30 Oct 2020 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Novel imaging technologies combined with advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics are creating new possibilities for surgical interventions that exploit near-real-time imaging and imaging-informed information sources and new kinds of surgical tools that change the roles of the surgical team. Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow position in the Wellcome /…

Call for Applications Postdoctoral researcher on interactive machine learning and human-robot/agent interaction PIRoS (Perception, Interaction and Robotique Sociales) team of the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Sorbonne University (Paris) Submission deadline: End of September 2020 The PIRoS (Perception, Interaction and Robotique Sociales) team of the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Sorbonne University (Paris) is looking for a for a highly motivated and ambitious postdoctoral researcher to conduct research on interactive machine learning and human-robot/agent interaction. The successful candidate will work on several EU projects including the HumanE-AI-Net (ICT-48-2020 – Towards a vibrant European network…

The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente is urgently looking for two postdoctoral researchers for six months (October 1st, 2020 – April 1st, 2021) Position 1: Ethical assessment and guidance of emerging technologies, with particular attention to AI and robotics Position 2: Ethical assessment and guidance of emerging technologies, with particular attention to human enhancement Working from a distance is a possibility. Application deadline: September 7th, 2020 Both positions are for the Horizon 2020 SIENNA project (https://www.sienna-project.eu/). The SIENNA project, carried by 12 international partners and coordinated by the University of Twente, aims to promote enhanced consideration of…

MA, PhD, Postdoc positions in Computer-Human Interaction Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia Expressions of interest due by 20th September 2020 We are seeking applicants for Masters, PhD and Postdoctoral positions for our Australian Research Council funded projects and for the annual QUT scholarship round. We are seeking excellent candidates to research in the following areas: Augmented sociality – social interaction in augmented reality Technologies for Inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities Co-Designing activities and technologies to revitalise Australian Indigenous Languages Human interaction with AI and machine learning New technologies for engagement with nature. (Interaction with children, new food systems…

Job Opening The Ethics Institute of Utrecht University’s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies seeks a researcher for a 4-year, full-time PhD project “The Ethics of Humanoid Robots,” as part of the inter-university Gravitation consortium “Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technology”. Full details: Job listing on the website of Utrecht University Deadline for application: August 29, 2020 Intended starting date: January 1, 2021 AIMS OF THE PHD PROJECT Robots that look and act like humans are currently being created for a variety of purposes: care robots for children with autism and as companions for the elderly; so-called sex robots; display model…

Call for Applications: Associate Director, Center for Immersive Experiences Pennsylvania State University University Park Campus https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/University-Park-Campus/Associate-Director–Center-for-Immersive-Experiences_REQ_0000004529-1 Review of applications will be begin September 1, 2020 JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Penn State’s Center for Immersive Experiences (CIE; immersive.psu.edu) is seeking to fill the position of associate director. CIE is a Penn State signature initiative with university-wide participation of 12 colleges and research units and is an affiliated center of the Institute for Computational and Data Science (ICDS). The Associate Director will be appointed as an Assistant/Associate Research Professor based upon experience and is expected to have their faculty home in…

JOB ADVERTISEMENT IMT ATLANTIQUE is recruiting an Associate Professor in Computer Science, specialized in HCI and Mixed Reality Brest campus France https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/school/job-offers/recruitment-campaign Deadline for applications: September 20th, 2020 Start date: December 2020 Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, 3D User Interaction, Mixed Reality (Virtual Reality and/or Augmented Reality), Immersive 3D Visualization (Immersive Analytics) Administrative status: Associate/Assistant Professor, civil servant of the French Ministry of Economy and Industry PRESENTATION OF THE SCHOOL: IMT Atlantique, internationally recognized for the quality of its research, is a leading general engineering school under the aegis of the Ministry of Industry and Digital Technology, ranked in the 3 main…