There is currently an opening for a PhD position in the Robotics, Brain, and Cognitive Sciences Department (RBCS) at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology — IIT) to work on the development of a novel tactile feedback device for enhancing stroke rehabilitation.  The PhD candidate will work directly with an interdisciplinary team of researchers: Dr Alberto Ansaldo, Dr. Michela Bassolino, and Dr. Netta Gurari.  IIT is an English-language based research center located in Genoa, Italy with state-of-the-art laboratories and international collaborations in the field of robotics, neuroscience, cognitive systems, and nanotechnologies.  The position is fully funded, with…

The Center for Games and Playable Media (CGPM) at the University of California, Santa Cruz  invites applications from outstanding game designers for the position of Game Designer in Residence . The Game Designer in Residence has two main roles: (1) individual game design research developing innovative interactive works, and, (2) participation in the academic community of the Center at several levels, most notably by teaching undergraduate level courses focused on game design. In research, the Game Designer in Residence creates original game design concepts which are then realized into working games. The Game Designer in Residence will also work collaboratively…

A 1.5 year postdoc position is available in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University, Germany (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/biologie/cns/) to work with Prof. Marc Ernst on the EU funded Project “The Hand Embodied – THE” (http://www.thehandembodied.eu/). In this project a highly interdisciplinary team of 10 European Universities covering fields from perception, neuroscience, engineering and robotics work together with the ultimate goal to understand and learn from the highly sophisticated human dexterous abilities. In our group we are focussing on questions related to human multisensory perception necessary for interacting with the environment and for manipulating objects.…

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (ref. 17344) Department of Computer Science University of Bristol Contract: Permanent; rank equivalent to US Assistant Professor Salary: £33,884 – £52,706 Grade: Level b – Level d in Pathway 1 Closing date for applications: 9:00am 17 Aug 2012 DESCRIPTION The Merchant Venturers School of Engineering would like to appoint a talented individual to join the Department of Computer Science. We are interested in candidates who have demonstrated potential in areas related to two or more of the School’s current research groupings, especially in computer vision, computer graphics and human-computer interaction.…

Research Engineer/Scientist Immersion Corporation – Montreal, Canada Area More information: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=3308682&trk=job_nov Job Description An energetic and innovative organization, Immersion Corporation brings human touch to the user experience through touch feedback – known as haptics – that allow people to experience rich tactile sensations when using digital devices. Our technology has broad consumer appeal and is licensed to product manufacturers and application developers in the mobile, gaming, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial and medical markets. Immersion partners and licensees include industry leaders like Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, LG Electronics, Nokia, Toshiba, Logitech, and Daesung. Immersion has an immediate opening for a Research Engineer/Scientist…

Faculty openings in game research at ITU Copenhagen Application deadlines: August 5, 2012 We just announced several openings for tenured or tenure-track faculty here at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen. We are looking for at least three outstanding researchers to join our research group and help advance games research.…

Dear colleagues, Please distribute this call widely to anyone interested in a game development faculty position. The University of Ontario Institute of Technology is looking to grow its game development program with excellent new researchers. UOIT is a young, vibrant university in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada and currently seeking to grow the game development faculty with excellent new members. Please don’t be puzzled by the standard job ad text; we are explicitly looking for people with research expertise in the following areas: Game design/game studies. Someone that has a track record of publishing at DiGRA, FDG, Future Play,…

Open PhD Position Virtual reality exploration for multi-dimensional land use management The Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand The goal of this PhD project is to explore how virtual-reality technology and super-computing capability can be used to assist decision-makers in understanding the impact of alternative optimal solutions in land management. Over 50 years worth of spatial data showing land use changes over time has been collected.  An evolutionary algorithm has been developed to find optimal solutions for land use, using this data set. However the output of this algorithm is difficult to visualize and understand. So the PhD work will…

PhD Student Positions in Speech Technology and Communication KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) announces 4 PhD positions in Speech Communication and Technology at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing. The goal of the positions is to contribute to the research foundation for speech technology in tomorrow’s conversational systems. Anticipated specializations: Data-driven Dialogue Management development and evaluation of a dialogue authoring framework that includes data-driven methods for action selection and multimodal output generation Incremental Input Fusion and Understanding data-driven semantic interpretation of input from several sources (speech, gesture, gaze, prosody)…

The School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Birmingham, UK, offers a fully funded PhD studentship on Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis starting in September/October 2012 (dates are negotiable). The recent rise of behavioural computing has brought a lot of attention to the design of systems for the automatic analysis of human behavior in computer-based applications. Applications cover a large range of domains, from security to robotics, from entertainment to assistive technology. Recent research on social robots shows that robots are increasingly been studied as partners that collaborate and do things with people. Social robots, for example,…

LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES First International Master of MediaArtHistories (low-residency, English language, international faculty) In affiliation with a driving force leading the field, Leonardo/ISAST, The Center for Image Science is pleased to announce their continued cooperation with a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course in MediaArtHistories, for the start in November 2012. LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist. The…

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Position Vacancy Listing: PVL# 73108 http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_073108.html Working title: Learning Technologies Design Research Specialist Official title: ASSISTANT SCIENTIST (E10LN) Degree and area of specialization: PhD in Learning Sciences, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or Statistics or related field. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Minimum of three years of experience in the following (years of post doc experience may be included): Essential: Skills in experience design, interface design, and developing software for learning. Excellent software engineering, programming and tool development skills in a design research setting. Deep understanding of assessment in formal and informal learning…