Centre for HCI Design, City University London 3-year Doctoral Studentships Closing date for applications: 9th March 2012 City University London is continuing its investment in academic excellence by offering up to 70 fully-funded, full-time, 3-year Doctoral Studentships for entry in October 2012. As part of this initiative, the Centre for HCI Design (HCID) in the School of Informatics invites applications from well-qualified candidates wishing to join our vibrant research community.  We are looking for applicants who are interested in undertaking innovative and inspirational research in areas including: Novel interfaces: mobile and pervasive interactive systems, inclusive interaction for users with disabilities,…

Alexander Tamas Research Fellowship: Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI with the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy The Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School Grade 7: £29,099–£39,107 per annum Protocol reference number: HUM/11042F/E Applications are invited for a fixed-term, three-year Research Fellowship within the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, an interdisciplinary programme within the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University. The Programme, directed by Professor Nick Bostrom, analyzes possibilities related to long-range technological change and potential social impacts of future transformative technologies. Research foci include the…

Job opening at UC Santa Cruz: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist The Center for Games and Playable Media (CGPM) and the Expressive Intelligence Studio invites applications from outstanding individuals for a Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist position. We’re starting a new research project to create the next generation of interactive storytelling technology: autonomous characters, social simulation, and story management. The goal is to take as big a step beyond the interactive drama Facade as it took from previous efforts. Please see the following link for more information: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/immerse-project-job-opening. Both applicants with Ph.D.s and research experience and applicants without Ph.D.s but with industry…

JOB OPENING: FULLTIME PROJECT RESEARCHER in the field of new media and ICT The IBBT research group for Media & ICT (IBBT-MICT) of the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium, seeks to fill a fulltime position as project researcher in the field of new media and ICT. Job description You conduct research into the experience and effectiveness of learning games within the interdisciplinary Games @ School (G@S) project …

The University of Connecticut has 5 openings, three at the assistant level (interpersonal, health, and new technology) and two open positions in Health Communication to begin in August of 2012. The Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut (http://coms.uconn.edu/) invites applications for three tenure track faculty positions at the assistant professor level. The minimum qualifications for each position include: a completed Ph.D. in Communication or related field by time of appointment; evidence of research productivity; a publication record; the ability to work in a collegial manner with a diverse faculty, staff and student population; experience teaching undergraduate courses;…

Position Announcement Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media Temple University Tenure Track position in Emergent Media The department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media (BTMM) at Temple University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in Emergent Media to begin in fall 2012. We seek a scholar whose work addresses the challenges and opportunities in emergent media, particularly social media environments including mobile media and gaming; other possible areas include telepresence and virtual/augmented reality. The ideal candidate would be qualified to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in media theory and analysis including Media Communication Research (social science…

Laughing Virtual Characters The research is part of a European Project ILHAIRE. It is a 3 years FET-Open project whose main topic is laughter. Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter. ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different disciplines linked to this objective.…

Tenure Track Faculty Position in Game Design and Interactive Media Joint between College of Arts, Media and Design and College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University Job code: 114350 Northeastern University is seeking one or more tenure track faculty for interdisciplinary positions in Game Design joint within the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Arts, Media and Design starting September 1, 2012.  Positions will be filled at the assistant, associate or full professor rank depending on the qualifications of the candidate. Northeastern University is in the heart of Boston and world leader in experiential…

The Exertion Games Lab (exertiongameslab.org) in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking exceptional PhD candidates to research the future of exertion games and play. The Exertion Games Lab is a new lab that researches the future of gaming in order to understand how to design better interactive experiences, in particular games that require intense physical effort from players. We call it the intersection between gaming and sports. Our research is focused on the merging of play and the active human body, drawing from research streams such as interaction design, human-computer interaction and computer games research. The culture in the Exertion Games Lab…

The Bristol Interaction and Graphics group (big.cs.bris.ac.uk) of the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in the area of ultrasound sensor use and measurement or in haptic interaction. Ideally, you will have expertise in both topics, and it is anticipated that you will have skills in one of these two topics with an interest in learning more about the other. The project will investigate the use of ultrasound transducers to provide ‘feelable’ feedback through air to provide multi-point haptic feedback on the surface of a multi-touch horizontal surface. You will develop experiments and simulations…

Hi all, The University of Baltimore in Maryland is seeking a faculty member for our Science, Information Arts + Technologies division to teach in our undergraduate game design program and graduate interaction design programs to begin in January or August 2012. You can learn more about our programs at: http://iat.ubalt.edu/. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to teaching, demonstrated success in research, creative professional practices, and publications and the ability to teach a range of courses in our two undergraduate and two graduate degree programs. We are especially interested in innovative leaders whose vision and energy can help…

Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics Aalborg University Copenhagen Position No.201148 At the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen one or more positions as Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics is open for appointment from February 15st, 2012 or soon hereafter. The Department of Architecture and Media Technology, section for Media Technology, carries out research and education in a broad area of media technology covered areas as human computer interaction, multimodal interaction, perception and cognition, sound and music computing, virtual and augmented reality, cultural aspects of media technology.…