Fully funded 3-year Collaborative PhD Studentship – Experience design for sensory storytelling UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre Deadline for applications: Friday September 1, 2017 Applications are open for a three-year full-time Doctoral studentship, fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to undertake practice-led research into creative forms that engage the senses beyond the audio-visual. Emerging digital creative technologies are enabling the development of immersive experiences and installations that engage with audiences through senses including touch, taste, smell, thermoception, proprioception. This studentship, based at UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre, offers a unique opportunity for a practice-based…

Research Assistant Professor for Immersive Environments Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, Virginia Faculty Rank: Research Assistant Professor Posting Number: SR0170329 Quick Link: http://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/79113 Employee Category: Research Faculty If restricted or temporary, enter end date: Reviewed annually Tenure Status: Non-Tenure Track Academic Year or Calendar Year: Calendar Year Percent Employment: Full-time Pay Range: Commensurate with Experience Job Posting Date: 08/18/2017 Review Begin Date: 09/11/2017 ABOUT VIRGINIA TECH: Virginia Tech is a public land-grant university, committed to teaching and learning, research, and outreach to the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world. Building on its motto…

Multiple Job Openings in HCI at the University of Bremen, Germany http://hci.uni-bremen.de/jobs/ [Application deadlines: Immediate] The Digital Media lab (http://dm.tzi.de) and the HCI lab (http://hci.uni-bremen.de) at the University of Bremen (http://www.uni-bremen.de ) (department heads: Rainer Malaka and Johannes Schöning) have multiple job openings for researchers, PhD students and Postdocs in the areas of: HCI Novel Interfaces Entertaining Computing Serious Games Artificial Intelligence Semantic Modelling of Everyday Activities We look for full time researchers (reimbursement according to TV-L EG13). The successful candidates will be working with a dynamic, friendly, and helpful team of computer science researchers.…

Assistant Professor of Media Studies – Games Studies The School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) University of Oregon Eugene, OR http://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/520583/assistant-professor-of-media-studies-games-studies Job no: 520583 Work type: Faculty – Tenure Track Location: Eugene, OR Categories: Instruction, Journalism/Communication Department: School of Journalism & Communication Rank: Assistant Professor Annual Basis: 9 Month Application Deadline: October 2, 2017; position open until filled (Apply now) Required Application Materials: Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest, CV, and the names of four academic references. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) at the University of Oregon seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in media…

Assistant Professor, Media Theory, Culture, and Technology at Media School of Indiana University Initial application deadline: October 20, 2017 The Media School at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2018. Candidates for this position should have an established record of publication and teaching at the intersection of media theory, culture, and technology. Areas of specialization may include but are not limited to screen studies, emergent media, sound studies, software studies, media history, and technology studies. Digital humanities approaches are welcome. The successful candidate…

Three PhD positions on Virtual Coaches European Horizon-2020 project Council of Coaches http://council-of-coaches.eu/3-phd-positions-on-multi-party-virtual-coaching/ Do you want to put your talents at work to develop a new coaching concept? Do you want to work on an innovative project in an international environment? Are you excellent in what you do and do you have strong social skills? Come and apply for one of three PhD positions available on Multi-Party Virtual Coaching! In the context of the European Horizon-2020 project Council of Coaches, the University of Twente and Roessingh Research and Development are looking for three highly motivated PhD candidates to help shape…

Oxford Internet Institute A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet. Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethics of AI Grade 7: £31,076 to £38,183 p.a. Vacancy ID: 129889 Closing Date: 3 August 2017 12:00pm BST Posted Date: 5 July 2017 https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/ The Oxford Internet Institute is a leading centre for research into individual, collective, and institutional behaviour on the Internet. We are looking for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher to collaborate with Professor Luciano Floridi on existing and plausible, foreseeable ethical challenges and opportunities posed by AI and our interactions with AI.…

Full Research Assistant position for 3 years (further extension possible) The Social Cognitive Systems Group (led by Prof. Stefan Kopp) Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) Bielefeld University, Germany Application deadline: July 19, 2017 Salary is according to German TVL-E13 scale, which is around 3500 EUR per month before taxes (depending on age, experience, family status). The successful candidate is highly motivated to contribute to the group’s research and teaching in the field of responsive interactive cognitive systems like virtual agents and/or social robots. The group is part of the Center of Excellence in “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC) at Bielefeld University and…

Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality American University, Washington, D. C. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000374908-01 Deadline: Review of applications will begin Sept. 1, 2017; open until filled Date Posted: July 3, 2017 Type: Tenured, tenure track Salary: Competitive Employment Type: Full-time The School of Communication (SOC) at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in the field of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning August 1, 2018. Rank is dependent on experience. Applicants should have a terminal degree in an appropriate field.…

Postdoctoral position in Dialog systems and Social robotics KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science and Communication Stockholm, Sweden https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:158099/where:4/ Last application date: 31 August 2017 JOB DESCRIPTION The work will be done in a newly funded project called “Exploring situated interaction with social robots using augmented reality”, lead by Assoc. Prof. Gabriel Skantze. The goal of the project is to explore how augmented reality can be used to create virtual robots that can interact with humans. A central question will be how social robots should engage in spoken interaction with humans in their surroundings, and how they…

Northumbria University, UK Position: Professor of Digital Living (with tenure) Faculty: Engineering and Environment https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/work-for-us/details/?roleId=92 Deadline: 7th June 2016 Northumbria University, UK, is currently recruiting for a Professor of Digital Living. To further strengthen our world-leading research we are investing to develop exciting opportunities in multi-disciplinary research areas. The Digital Living multidisciplinary research theme draws together expertise from the Faculty of Engineering & Environment, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Faculty of Business & Law and Faculty of Art, Design and Social Sciences. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from those with research interests in the areas of: Urban…

Postdoctoral position in the GIFT project on design of museum experiences The IT University of Copenhagen Application Deadline: 6 June 2017 The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a postdoc position starting on 1 September 2017 or soon thereafter for a duration of one year, with a possibility for extension. The position will form part of a Horizon 2020 project entitled “Meaningful Personalization of Hybrid Virtual Museum Experiences Through Gifting and Appropriation (The GIFT project)”, at the Center for Computer Games Research. The GIFT project aims to develop a framework with tools, theory, and best…