Tenure-track positions in game design/development or HCI, Virginia Tech Virginia Tech’s Department of Computer Science is searching for multiple tenured and tenure-track faculty members to join our vibrant, collaborative, and rapidly growing department. We are especially encouraging applicants with expertise in either game design/development *or* human-computer interaction (HCI). Gaming-focused applicants working in any technical area of digital game design/development are also encouraged, and this position is one of several gaming-related faculty searches happening this year as part of the new Creative Technologies + Experiences strategic growth area. HCI-focused applicants may complement our faculty’s existing strengths, including virtual/augmented reality, visualization, social…

Dear colleagues, We are hiring in the Department of Art+Design at Northeastern University. Feel free to contact me [see below] with questions, or you can direct questions to: gamesearch@northeastern.edu https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/45437 Application deadline for full review: December 31, 2016 The Department of Art+Design in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University invites applications for an open rank search for one or more positions in media arts/game design. We seek candidates with a national/ international record of excellence in research and/or creative practice in media arts, in one or more areas including but not limited to: animation, art games,…

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland (one of the most livable cities in the world) is offering a Fully funded Doctoral Candidate position in the field of COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES, with a focus on combining games and physical exercise and/or movement AI for physically based simulated characters (e.g., “active ragdolls”) Application deadline: December 7th 2016 The position belongs to Aalto University’s career system and the selected person will be appointed for a two-year fixed term appointment with an option for renewal for another two years. Aalto University is a new university created in 2010…

Full Professor and 2 Lectureships Department of Computer and Information Sciences / Faculty of Engineering and Environment Northumbria University, Newcastle Deadlines: November 26 and 23, 2016 Northumbria University has recently invested strongly in multi-disciplinary areas allied to digital living, interaction design and social computing with a number of senior, cross faculty, appointments in this area in the last 12 months. Currently, we are currently seeking to appoint to THREE new posts in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences: a Full / Associate Professor and two new Senior Lecturers / Lecturers. Details of the posts can be found here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AVB914/professor-associate-professor-in-computer-and-information-sciences/…

Research Software Engineer / Experimental Scientist Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Data61 Innovation Group Canberra, Australia Join CSIRO’s Data61 team – the largest innovation group in Australia! Software engineering and programming for rapid prototyping of Interactive Computer Graphics Applications Work in world class Advanced Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) facilities Applications Close: 19th December 2016 Data61 is the largest data innovation group in Australia. Bringing together CSIRO’s Productivity team and National ICT Australia (NICTA), we are unrivalled in our intellectual capital and our network with the global technology marketplace. The combined group will bring together approximately…

Researcher in Mixed Reality Training Environments (M/F) Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) REFERENCE: ERIN-2016-069 Type: Researcher Contract type: Fixed term contract Place: Belvaux http://www.list.lu/en/jobs/job-offer/erin-2016-069/ CONTEXT The successful candidate will join the “Environmental Research and Innovation” (ERIN) department. With a team of more than 170 scientists and engineers from life science, environmental science, and IT science, the department has the necessary interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to tackle major environmental challenges our society is facing today: climate change mitigation, ecosystem resilience, sustainable energy systems, efficient use of renewable resources, environmental pollution prevention and control. DESCRIPTION PROJECTS AND MAIN MISSIONS The…

University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Studentship (£17,040 PER ANNUM) http://www.antoniahamilton.com/hamilton_PhD_student_advert3.pdf Application deadline: 30th November 2016 A 3-year PhD studentship is available in the Social Neuroscience group (led by Dr Antonia Hamilton) at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, in collaboration with Prof Marco Gillies at Goldsmiths College. The PhD project is titled Understanding and generating real-time face-to-face social interactions, and aims to use new motion capture and virtual reality technology to understand the coordination of nonverbal behaviour between two people in high resolution. The student will have a lead role in recording and analysing data…

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Computer Science (HCI/Games Computing) University of Lincoln School of Computer Science Location:  Brayford Salary:  From £32,004 per annum Grade 7-9 Closing Date:  Sunday 13 November 2016 Interview Date:  Thursday 01 December 2016 Reference:  MHT106 https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MHT106 The School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln invites applications for three positions at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader grade in HCI/Games Computing. These appointments are parts of a strategic plan to strengthen research and delivery in interaction design, user studies and interactive technologies and to strengthen our well established team of Games academics. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to contribute to…

Uppsala University Associate Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction Final submissions due: 1 November 2016 The department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden, announces a position as senior associate lecturer in Human Computer interaction. This research area includes the study of the interaction between humans and digital technology; an interaction which in turn forms new digital usage patterns and digital practices. The associate senior lecturer is expected to contribute to the research area of embodied interaction, focusing on pervasive, physical, and social play. This is a full time position consisting of 50% research and 50% teaching. The post of associate…

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…