The Creative Exchange Funded PhD Studentships Royal College of Art In partnership with Lancaster University and Newcastle University The closing date for applications is Thursday 31 May 2012. Innovation and Knowledge Exchange in Digital Public Space The Royal College of Art is seeking to recruit four PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial partners in the creative and digital industries. The four studentships are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via The Creative Exchange, one of four Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hubs for the Creative Economy established in January 2012…

RMIT University is a global university of technology and design and Australia’s largest tertiary institution (see http://www.rmit.edu.au/about). RMIT’s Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab) is offering two 3-year full-time PhD stipends, to highly motivated Australians or New Zealanders. At the GEElab, an international research team is investigating how game design thinking can affect and alter architecture & urbanism, mobility, popular media & storytelling, engagement as well as other sciences, cf. www.geelab.rmit.edu.au. The GEElab operates sites at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, as well as in Stuttgart, Germany, there as GEElab Europe, and is based in RMIT’s School of Media and Communication.…

Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Research Assistants in Human Factors in Surgical Simulation and Training Cambridge Health Alliance Hospitals, Department of Surgery, Cambridge, MA Please circulate. Review of applications will begin immediately until the positions are filled. We are seeking several highly qualified postdoctoral research associates (2) and research assistants (3) to perform research in surgical simulation and training. This multidisciplinary research is funded by 3 NIH R01 grants and is multi-institutional, involving engineers and physicians from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Wright State University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, and the Cambridge…

Full-time PhD Studentship Department of Computing Centre for Research in Computing The Open University Based in Milton Keynes, UK Closing date: 09/04/2012 Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship. Project: Investigating the success factors in the creation and sustenance of online communities This project aims to investigate: the factors that contribute towards the creation and sustenance of online (2D and 3D) virtual communities, and the challenges that communities experience to sustain themselves? The outcomes of this project will be of particular interest to organisations in the e-government and e-commerce domains, that are aiming to engage with customers through…

Phd Position at LABSTICC/ENIB/CERV Subject: Cognitive Architecture for a bodily coupling between human and virtual creature. Supervisor: Pierre De Loor Co-supervisors: Elisabetta Bevacqua and Cédric Buche The aim of this PhD Thesis consists in developing a cognitive architecture able to reproduce the dynamics of the coupling between two humans during a bodily interaction. Various phenomena such as synchrony, imitation and subtle behavioral variations that emerge in human interactions are taken into account. The final goal is the real-time animation of a virtual character during the interaction with a user. Different contexts (like sport, theater, education…) will be considered. The work…

2 PhD Researchers ERC Project “Charting the Digital” Utrecht University, The Netherlands Faculty of Humanities Salary starts at € 2,042.- and increases to € 2,612.- gross per month in the fourth year of the appointment Respond before 01-04-2012 Job description Two PhD positions are now available as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project “Charting the Digital: Digital Mapping Practices as New Media Cultures.” The key objective of this research programme is to investigate to what extent and how digital maps can be considered as new techno-cultural phenomena that have altered our way of being in and moving…

Multiple postdoctoral positions in virtual surgery at RPI Description & Requirement The Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA invites applications for several postdoctoral positions to work on multiple projects funded by the NIH on developing virtual surgery technology.  The ideal candidate will develop the next generation surgical simulator based on advanced physics-based computational methods and robotic systems in collaboration with surgeons at Harvard Medical School.…

PhD in adaptive user interfaces – University College London User interfaces that adapt to the user’s activities, situation and knowledge promise a significantly improved user interaction. Adaptive user interfaces need to model the user to make inferences about the interaction, requiring techniques such as agent-based modelling, machine learning and data mining. This PhD will investigate users’ interactions with adaptive user interfaces and novel techniques for adaptation in user interfaces, particularly in relation to mobile devices. The student will be supervised by John Dowell and based in the Computer Science department at UCL within the user interaction research centre UCLIC. The…

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 …