Tenure Track Position in Interactive Media and Game Development Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA For full consideration, applications due by December 15, 2016 The WPI Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) Program and the Computer Science Department jointly seek to hire a tenure-track faculty member to start July 1, 2017. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline at the time of appointment. Established in 2005, WPI’s top-ranked IMGD program is a collaborative venture between the Computer Science, Humanities & Arts, and Social Science & Policy Studies departments, with close affiliations to the Learning Sciences and the Robotics…

University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands PhD position on the improvement of the interactive technology that measures and interprets human behaviour and experiences https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/278285 Applications by 3 October 2016 The research falls partly under the multidisciplinary research institute CTIT (http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/) and the 4TU research centre Humans & Technology (http://www.4tu.nl/ht/en/) JOB DESCRIPTION The 4TU research centre Humans & Technology (H&T) has a vacancy for a PhD candidate to be based at the Human Media Interaction research group of the University of Twente and working on sensing and social signal processing. The research is to be carried out as part of a larger…

Research Associate – Social Neuroscience – Ref:1577576 University College London UCL Department / Division: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Grade: 7 Hours: Full Time Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £33,686 – £40,716 per annum DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Applications are invited for the position of post-doctoral research associate to model and generate human social behaviour using machine learning and virtual reality. The post-holder will be responsible for using machine learning to analyse human movement data and train computational models for controlling virtual characters, in a collaboration between computer science and psychology. The post holder will be based in Marco Gillies lab at…

Please note/reshare this UTA call for applications – this suits for people working in game studies, internet studies, digital culture or network society studies, for example – Best, Frans Five tenure-track posts of professor/associate professor in the New Social Research (NSR) programme at the University of Tampere (Finland) for the fixed term of five years Application deadline: September 30, 2016 The University of Tampere is a lively research environment with a staff of 2.200 and 15.000 students and with a strong emphasis on the study of topical societal phenomena. The University of Tampere has established a multidisciplinary New Social Research…

Postdoctoral Research Positions in Cognitive Interaction Technology Bielefeld University, Germany The Cluster of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University, Germany (www.cit-ec.de) is aiming to fill up to 10 postdoctoral positions in all areas of cognitive interaction technology. This includes all areas of social interaction in Virtual Reality (including recognition, analytics, learning, and simulation) as well as human-aware AI for conversational agents, where the Postdoc would work in the Social Cognitive Systems Group led by Stefan Kopp and/or the Computer Graphics Group led by Mario Botsch. The official text of the announcement is below. Deadline for applications is…

Senior Lecturer in Culture, Aesthetics and Media specialising in Interactive Media Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Type of employment: Permanent post First day of employment: By agreement Reference number: PER 2016/265 http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=100001&disableRedirect=true&returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gu.se%2Fomuniversitetet%2Faktuellt%2Fledigaanstallningar%2F%3Fid%3D19144%26Dnr%3D770674%26Type%3DS&Dnr=770674&Type=S Closing date for the application: 2016-09-15 At the Department of Cultural Sciences we offer courses and pursue research in Art History and Visual Culture, Children and Youth Culture, Cultural Studies, Ethnology, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Musicology and Scandinavian Studies. Whether the studies concern different kinds of specific cultural expressions or wider cultural perspectives, our shared aim is to explore a multitude of aesthetical, historical, communicative…

2 PhD positions in hybrid virtual museum design The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=180790&MediaId=5#sthash.5dGqp8Ta.dpuf Application deadline: September 20, 2016 The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites candidates to apply for 2 PhD positions starting in 31 December 2016 or soon thereafter. The positions will form part of a project funded by a grant from the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, entitled “Meaningful Personalization of Hybrid Virtual Museum Experiences Through Gifting and Appropriation (The GIFT project)”. The GIFT project aims to develop a framework with tools, theory and best practice guidelines to guide the development of mobile apps for museums that…

Postdoctoral position in social signal processing for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) University of Glasgow Closing date: 14 August 2016 The University of Glasgow invites applications for a post-doctoral position to work on Social Signal Processing in the context of social human-robot interaction. This position is part of the recently started European project MuMMER (“MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot”), which aims to develop a socially intelligent humanoid robot that is able to engage and interact autonomously and naturally in the dynamic environment of a public shopping mall. The project is an international collaboration with seven partners, led by the University of Glasgow, which…

The Emerging Analytics Center (EAC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions The Emerging Analytics Center (EAC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) has two (2) 3-year funded Postdoctoral Research Associate positions in the areas of virtual and augmented reality and interactive technologies. We are seeking highly creative and motivated individuals that would like to start their research career in VR/AR at the EAC. Candidates need to have a strong background in interactive computer graphics or related fields (Gaming, HCI, virtual reality); good programming skills and experience in C++, Python, OpenGL;…

6 month Research Post Centre for HCI Design, City University London Salary: £35,609 Closing Date: 3rd June 2016 The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University London is seeking to appoint a researcher with strong skills in building content for virtual worlds and accessibility. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly-motivated individual to join a team working on technology for people who have had a stroke. The successful candidate will work on a project developing a virtual world, funded by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. The project is a collaboration between the Centre for HCI Design (HCID) and…

PhD Student positions in Virtual and Augmented Reality and Interactive Technologies Emerging Analytics Center University of Arkansas at Little Rock The Emerging Analytics Center (EAC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) has multiple 3- and 4-year fully funded PhD student positions in the areas of virtual and augmented reality and interactive technologies. We are seeking highly creative and motivated individual that would like to pursue a PhD degree in our center. These candidates need to have a strong background in interactive computer graphics or related fields (Gaming, HCI, virtual reality); good programming skills and experience in C++,…

Vacancy: Researcher in Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality to work in a major new research centre at the University of Bath. We are seeking a talented and motivated researcher with excellent track record in human-computer interaction and/or 3D computer graphics. The post holder will work closely with computer vision and motion capture experts to research, develop and evaluate innovative 3D environments and interaction techniques for virtual and augmented reality. The Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA) is an exciting EPSRC funded large-scale…