Senior Lecturer in Immersive Technology University of South Wales Cardiff Campus https://jobs.southwales.ac.uk/en/vacancies/5847/senior_lecturer_in_immersive_technology/ Closing Date: November 8, 2018 The USW Faculty of Creative Industries is one of the largest providers of creative education in the UK with over 2500 students studying across a portfolio of over 30 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, all contained within a campus in the heart one of the country’s most vibrant and creative cities. Having recently achieved outstanding national student survey results across the Design subject area, the Faculty is now looking to further develop its research profile and its capacity to collaborate with external partners. The…

Two-year Post-doctoral Position Multimodal data analysis of behavioral and physiological signals from human-human and human-machine interactions Laboratoire d’Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS) et Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS France Deadline for application: 30 October Keywords: conversational speech, multimodal data analysis, neurophysiological data, machine learning The A*MIDEX project PhysSocial aims at a better understanding of the specificities of social interactions by comparing relationships between behavior and neurophysiology in human‐human and human‐robot discussion. The goal of the post-doc is to analyze the multimodal signals (speech, eyes direction, physiological, and neurophysiologic signals) from conversational activity using signal processing and…

PhD fellowship Subject: Modelling a humanoid virtual assistant for remote and isolated caregivers ANR VR-MARS Project UMR-CNRS (French National Research Centre) Lab-STICC Brest, France Supervisor: Ronan Querrec Co-supervisors: Elisabetta Bevacqua ENIB – Brest National School of Engineering Lab-STICC – Laboratory in the field of Information, Communication and Knowledge Science Keywords: embodied conversational agents, multimodal data analysis and generation, medical procedures and assistance data, system trustworthiness. The PhD project is part of the ANR VR-MARS Project that aims at implementing an assistance system designed for emergency care support in remote and isolated sites. The system will be based on virtual reality…

[See last year’s position announcement here. –Matthew] Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Game Studies In the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00965 Applications received by November 8, 2018 will receive full consideration The Department of Media and Cultural Studies (MCS) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Game Studies. This appointment will begin July 1, 2019. We seek candidates with research expertise in Game Studies. Possible areas of interest include: gender and sexuality, queer and feminist approaches,…

Post-Doctoral Researcher Virtual Experiences Research Group University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA Posted September 19, 2018 We are announcing a virtual reality/human-computer interaction postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA). The postdoctoral researcher will work with Professor Benjamin Lok in the Virtual Experiences Research Group (ufverg.com). JOB SUMMARY: The postdoctoral researcher contributes to the Virtual Experiences Research Group’s success by: Applying their understanding of virtual reality technologies to develop user experiences involving virtual human characters in healthcare applications to achieve research grant goals Conducting user studies to evaluate the efficacy of virtual human systems Mentoring undergraduate…

Faculty Position: Assistant Professor of Games User Research at the University of Saskatchewan https://www.cs.usask.ca/news-and-events/2018/now-hiring-assistant-professor-game-user-research.php Review of applications begins September 15, 2018; open until filled Applications are invited from qualified individuals for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with the College of Arts and Science in the Department of Computer Science. The University of Saskatchewan, the College of Arts and Science and the Department of Computer Science are strongly committed to diversity. Applications from Indigenous persons and women are especially encouraged and will be given preference. The successful candidate will build a substantial, externally funded research program…

The department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK is currently advertising 5 new academic jobs. For the Media and Cultural Studies Programme, the department is particularly interested in receiving applications from scholars working on digital technologies, immersive media and social change, including scholars working on VR and games (serious games, games and gender, games and media literacy). Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor of Inequalities, in the disciplines of Sociology, Social Work or Media and Cultural Studies Sociology Salary: Lecturer: £33,518 – £47,722, Senior Lecturer/Reader: £50,618 – £56,950, Professor: minimum of £63,836 Closing Date:  Sunday 30 September 2018 Interview Date:  Thursday…

Position: Lab Coordinator at the MIT Media Lab No deadline, position open until filled The Scalable Cooperation Group directed by Iyad Rahwan at the MIT Media Lab is seeking a full-time or part-time lab coordinator to start in September, 2018 (exact date negotiable). The position is for one year with the opportunity to renew contingent on performance and funding availability. Applications are being accepted immediately and will continue to be reviewed until the position is filled. The Scalable Cooperation group seeks to answer the question: How can we anticipate and respond to major disruptions from Artificial Intelligence, the Web and social media…

Job Opening Announcement Want to… Teach games? Live in the NY Metro area? Teach at a top 40 games program? I am looking for a Visiting Professor of Games to join me this upcoming year! We are open to all different types of skills sets, but especially experience in teaching Unity, Game Art, level design, and/or digital tools (Photoshop, etc.). We are hoping to post a full-time (tenure-track or lecturer) position in the future. This is a *very* exciting opportunity to help build a brand new games and media program at an up-and-coming tech-savvy liberal arts college in the beautiful…

Postdoc or Research engineer position in Human-Agent Multimodal Interaction Laboratory: LITIS (Laboratory of Computer Science, Information Processing and Systems), INSA Rouen, Normandy University, France Application deadline: August 31, 2018 23:00 – Europe/Brussels Summary: Communicating freely and naturally with a virtual character or a robot is one of the great challenges in human-machine interaction. In particular, the modelling of multi-modal and affective dialogic interactions is a multi-disciplinary scientific issue. This modelling is most often based on a corpus of multi-modal dialogues, whose analysis aims at identifying a set of recurrent behaviours (i.e. to provide a model). The objective of the DAISI…

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor Applied Immersive Game Design University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand https://ucvacancies.canterbury.ac.nz/psc/ps/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=6049&PostingSeq=1& Job ID: 6049 Location: College of Engineering Full/Part Time: Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) Regular/Temporary: Regular The closing date for this position is: 29 June 2018 (NZ time) Applications are invited for a continuing academic position in the area of Applied Immersive Game Design, one of four new academic positions in the new, rapidly growing School of Product Design in the College of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. The School offers a new, exciting degree programme, the Bachelor of Product Design, with majors offered in…

Design Researcher 2 at Microsoft Redmond, Washington, United States https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/447298/Design-Researcher-2 Job number: 447298 Date posted: June 6, 2018 Travel: 0-25 % Job category: Engineering Role type: Individual Contributor Employment type: Full-Time To put it simply, we are all about fun! And at Team Xbox, we care deeply about facilitating fun for everyone. Are you curious about games and technology? We are seeking a researcher with a passion & skill for generating consumer insights to help drive the development of world-class entertainment games and experiences. You will be joining a unique team at Microsoft known for pioneering and institutionalizing the adaptation…