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.…

Dear colleagues, Note that the position is open to behavioral researchers as well as to architectural design or geoscience graduates. Please feel free to distribute to others who might be interested in this post. Best regards, Christoph Hoelscher OPEN POSITION Postgraduate Position / Junior Researcher at the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universitaet Freiburg Project R6-[SpaceGuide] ­ Human and Robot Navigation in Structured Environments Under the condition of job release / (vorbehaltlich der Mittelfreigabe) Project Description: The mission of our research group is to better understand human wayfinding processes and their interaction with the environment. The overall…

Project Officer/Manager (Requisition ID: 016JE) Job: Academic (Level B) Macquarie University Faculty / Office: Dept of Education Fixed term/part time The School of Education, Macquarie University has an opening for a Project Officer/Manager on an exciting Australian Learning and Teaching Council project investigating how synchronous technologies (desktop video-conferencing, web-conferencing, virtual worlds) can be most effectively utilised to unite remote and face-to-face university students. The successful applicant for this academic position will work with a national team of academics to identify, characterise, and evaluate technology-enhanced ways of bringing together on-campus and geographically dispersed students, as well as help coordinate a community…

PhD Candidates – Gaming and HCI in cars (2 PhD positions) (M/F) Application Deadline: Sunday October 09 2011 The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) is a recently formed centre carrying out interdisciplinary research in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems and services, often in collaboration with industrial, governmental or international partners. SnT is active in several international research projects funded by the EU 7th framework programme and the European Space Agency. The successful candidate will conduct research in one or more of the centre projects and assist in the development of the SnT…

Project: Telemedicine: A Virtual Reality Solution EPSRC DTA PhD Studentship available at the Virtual Reality Lab Computer Science University of Sheffield Deadline for application 30th October 2011 Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available and for example save lives in critical care and emergency situations. This project will be investigating the challenge of providing a virtual reality solution for rich interactions between remote medical staff, working over the superfast…