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…

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.…