Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty, Open Rank and Tenure, Simulation and Digital Entertainment Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences University of Baltimore Vacancy Number 2013-011 Position Type: Faculty position with benefits package Opens: 10/24/12 Closes: Open Until Filled Salary: Competitive and commensurate with qualifications Open Until Filled. Apply by December 15, 2012 for best consideration. The Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore invites applications for a full-time, tenured/tenure-track faculty position (open rank and tenure) or senior level professor of practice position in game design to begin in August 2013. For consideration, applicants must have…

Faculty Position in Virtual Environments Assistant Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.hass.rpi.edu/pl/2012-job-announcement-immersive-intelligent-learning-environments The Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position in virtual environments, 3D animation, and new media art. We seek an artist whose work demonstrates creative and critical engagement with new forms of digital and virtual art in one or more of the following areas: experimental digital games and artgames; software art, interactive and computational media; interactive installation and physical computing; immersive environments, virtual and augmented reality; internet art; sound design & music for virtual environments, and 3D modeling and animation.…

RMIT University’s Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory –the GEElab– is currently offering a 3-year full-time PhD stipend, to a highly motivated and experienced recent graduate or young professional from Australia, New Zealand or another country, to work on a project co-sponsored by German car maker Audi and by RMIT. The successful applicant is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally not later than 1 February 2013, and will be located mainly in the GEElab in Melbourne, Australia. In this project, which has been operative for over a year, we are investigating how ‘gameful’ design methods can be applied for…

The PLAIT (Playable Innovative Technologies) research group at Northeastern University is seeking both PhD and Master’s students. This interdisciplinary group is comprised of several faculty members and resides within the Colleges of Computer and Information Science and Arts, Media and Design. Research focus areas in the group include (a) HCI and Games, (b) Adaptive Games, (c) Procedural Content Generation and Computer Creativity, (d) Games for Impact, (e) Interactive Narrative, (f) Game Analytics, and (g) Game User Research. Currently the group has funding to support 5 Research Assistants in these areas.…

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/) prides itself on its record of innovative development and understanding of technology to better the condition of individuals and society. We seek more than one new faculty member who will continue and broaden this tradition, through a program of cutting-edge research into the theory, substance, methods, and/or applications of HCI. Applicants are welcome from the diverse backgrounds that will further our goal. What is required is a strong record of research and teaching and the desire to work with our eminent faculty toward the HCII’s goals. We expect to hire at…

Georgia Tech Digital Media Tenure Track Position Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), which provides diverse humanistic perspectives on a technological world, is seeking to fill one Digital Media tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek practitioner / theorists who combine technical expertise with a strong grounding in the arts and humanities. Candidates should be prepared to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level in LMC’s Computational Media and Digital Media programs. A Ph.D. in an appropriate field is required (e.g. digital media / arts, human centered computing, computer science, education, or design),…

The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a tenure track (Assistant) or tenured (Associate and Full Professor) faculty position. We seek outstanding applicants in the area of games and playable media. Preferred applicants will have research and teaching experience in games and graphics, with a research presence in the graphics community and the games and/or interactive media community, though candidates with specializations in other areas of games and interactive media will be considered. Specializations in areas particularly appropriate to games and interactive media, such as real-time animation and effects, procedural content generation,…

The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media (TISM) at Michigan State University invites applications for an open rank tenure stream faculty position in the area of socio-technical systems. We seek a leader in the field whose scholarship is at the intersection of social sciences and technology with expertise in studying and/or building innovative systems of interaction between people (individuals, groups, communities, networks, crowds), technology and society.…

The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente (the Netherlands) is looking for two Assistant Professors (full-time, tenure-track). The  positions are in 1) Applied Ethics and/or Political Philosophy with a (future) emphasis on technology and 2) Philosophy of Technology with a (future) emphasis on philosophical anthropology and human-technology relations.…

PhD Openings in Haptic Systems Department of Advanced Robotics Italian Institute of Technology Application deadline: September 21, 2012 (12 noon, Italian time) The Department of Advanced Robotics (http://www.iit.it/en/advanced-robotics.html) at the Italian Institute of Technology IIT (an English language research Institute) placed in Genova has a number of PhD openings within the research area of Haptic and Interaction Technologies. The positions are fully funded and start in January 2013 (last three years). International applications are encouraged and will receive logistic support with visa issues, relocation, etc. All the successful candidates will work closely with a team of researchers working on Haptic…

The Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies Professorship in Digital Learning is a critical linchpin in the School of Education, Health and Society’s efforts to build interdisciplinary synergy among various technology initiatives. Desirable candidates will be influential, inspirational, and collaborative, inviting faculty and students to think and act differently as educators and researchers, and have knowledge of and experience with multicultural populations. A successful candidate will be one who can work independently within EHS, AIMS, and as an ambassador to other constituencies. Required qualifications include: earned doctorate in a field of study represented in the departments of the School of…

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS Department of Communication 2012­-2013 Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Associate Professor Communication and Information Technology Seeking an individual with research interests concerned with the social and/or psychological impact of communication and information technologies. Examples of research programs in this area include, but are not limited to, psychological and/or social effects of new communication technologies, social interaction through computers, social media, and virtual reality and identity. The contexts for this research may include formal organizations, health or political systems or global society at large. Applicants must be willing to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Communication, Technology and…