Research Officer Project IVY – Interpreting in Virtual Reality Bangor University – College of Physical & Applied Sciences, School of Computer Science Starting Salary: £29,972 (on Grade 7) p.a. Applications are invited for the above post to work at the School of Computer Science, for 20 months on a European Commission funded project named IVY: Interpreting using Virtual reality.  IVY includes six international partner organizations and the successful applicant will be located in Bangor, UK, and will report to Dr. Jonathan C. Roberts. The project addresses the needs of future interpreters and users of interpreters.  IVY will use 3D virtual…

1 Year Human-Robot Interaction Post-doc, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm, Sweden When:  Available immediately, 1 year. start date March 1st. Where:  The researcher will be employed at SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and will work within the Mobile Life Centre (MobileLifeCentre.org) We are pleased to announce the availability of a one-year post-doc position in the area of human-robot interaction at SICS and the Mobile Life Centre. We are looking for recent Ph.D. graduates from all over the world with a strong interest in robotic artefacts and interaction design, who want to work in a dynamic research environment in Sweden.…

Assistant/Associate Professor in Media Arts at DePaul University (Tenure-track) The College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University is seeking applicants for a full-time tenure-track position for its cutting edge and fast-growing programs in cinema and interactive media. The ideal candidate should demonstrate innovative research in the learning sciences and/or social computing through the use of emerging interactive technologies. Possible areas of expertise include but are not limited to: game studies, computer supported collaborative learning, information design, interactive/experience design, cinematic arts, social media and related fields.…

Post-Doctoral Position in Games@NCSU The Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University is seeking applicants for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science, beginning as soon as January 15, 2010 for a one year term. The applicant will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Computer Science, Textile Chemistry and Industrial Design working on the IC-CRIME project.  Using 3D laser scanning technology paired with browser-based 3D game engines, the IC-CRIME system brings law enforcement teams together into 3D virtual reconstructions of real-world crime scenes to collaborate to solve crimes.  The post-doctoral fellow will be supervised by Dr. R. Michael…

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY in MIDDLE EARTH (Aotearoa New Zealand) Dr Gareth Schott (University of Waikato, New Zealand) invites applications for a PhD Scholarship connected to a three-year research project, funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund. The project, ‘Videogame Classification: Examining Player Experiences,’ is a collaborative project with Prof. Frans Mäyrä (Tampere University, Finland) and Dr Lennart Nacke (University of Saskatchewan, Canada). We are seeking an individual to join this team and contribute to the production of accounts of gameplay as a gestural, engaging, cognitive and affective activity.…

Positions at the University of Birmingham Chair, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, 2x University Research Fellows (5 year fellowship transferring to lectureship, permanent contract) The University of Birmingham has made a strategic investment in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. A new centre for HCI is being created, which will expand the existing research in this domain and integrate existing activities across the newly-created College of Engineering and Physical Science.  The vision for a world-class centre of HCI is based on a people-centred perspective on interaction and technology: it attempts to understand and create the future that we will inhabit and digitally interact with.…

The University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law and College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Invite applications for The Carol Kennedy PhD in Multi-Touch Technologies for Museums, Libraries and Archives The Carol Kennedy PhD is a fully funded studentship, covering fees and standard living costs, and will explore the use of multi-touch technologies in museums, libraries and archives (MLAs). The student will re-present existing digital content held by these institutions, creating novel and exploratory ‘demonstrator’ projects that build on existing datasets/databases of text, 2D and 3D data. The candidate will use the world class facilities at the University of…

There are two open tenure-track jobs in the Georgia Tech School of Literature Communication and Culture in Atlanta, Georgia. One position is in Digital Media and the other is in Cultural Studies of Science and Technology. Details are below. …

User Experience designer At the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the University of Trento Italy, we have an exciting opportunity for a talented Interaction Designer to help shaping and implementing new interaction paradigms for the management of digital content. Working across multiple products, the successful candidate will be required to conduct a range of qualitative and quantitative User Experience activities spanning the entire UCD process. Some of these include gathering requirements, building and using personas and scenarios, building and testing prototypes, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, planning and performing usability testing, and conducting user experience benchmarking.…

The Computer Science department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands has a vacancy for Full Professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/vacancies/fullprofessor The Human Media Interaction (HMI) group at the University of Twente performs research in the areas of natural interaction and intelligent environments: Natural interaction research includes human-computer interaction, multimedia processing, dialogue modeling, multimodal interaction, and brain-computer interfacing. Intelligent environment research includes multi-party interaction, embodied conversational agents (virtual humans), and virtual and augmented reality.…

JOB: Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Game Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden http://www.sh.se/ledigajobb (click the link: “Senior Lecturer in Media Technology, specialized in Game Studies, 50 – 100%”) This is a permanent position at the School of Communication, Media and IT at Södertörn University, Stockholm (http://www.sh.se/)…

PhD Openings in Haptic Systems Department of Advanced Robotics Italian Institute of Technology The Department of Advanced Robotics (http://www.iit.it/en/advanced-robotics) at the Italian Institute of Technology IIT (an English language Institute) placed in Genoa has a number of PhD openings within the research areas of Haptic Systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality (starting in January 2011). Please see below the list of the available themes [one position available per theme]. PhD Themes (Haptic Systems): Theme 1: Enhancing the Stability of Haptic Systems: Novel Haptic actuators with Variable Physical damping. Theme 2: Development of a Bi-manual Semi-Exoskeleton System for Enhanced Teleoperation and Virtual…