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PhD Studentship in HCI at University of Lancaster
Mar 15 04
Source: BCS-HCI
EPSRC-funded PhD studentship in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Lancaster
This studentship is offered as part of a collaborative venture in human-computer interaction between the Departments of Psychology and Computing at Lancaster. We currently offer a Masters by Research in the Design and Evaluation of Advanced Interactive Systems, which also has EPSRC-funded places available for 2004, and we hope to recruit a postgraduate student interested in pursuing research under the general theme of interaction design and evaluation. Applicants will be co-supervised by both departments, and should be graduates, or about to graduate, with at least a 2i hons. in Psychology, Computing or a related discipline. Your research interests should match those of the departments'
research groups:
Psychology - The High-Level Cognition group focuses upon understanding human cognitive processes including memory, reasoning, problem-solving, creativity, task analysis, human error, interaction design and evaluation, ethnography. Likely supervisors include Professor Tom Ormerod and Dr.
Linden Ball. More information at http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/
Computing - the department have a large number of international leaders in human-computer interaction research, and two core research groups in Cooperative Systems Engineering and Distributed Multimedia Systems. Likely supervisors include Professor Alan Dix, Professor Hans Gellersen and Dr.
Corina Sas. More information at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/
The studentship will start on 1st October 2004, and the deadline for applications is 31st March 2004. In addition to this collaborative studentship, both departments offer at least eight other research studentship opportunities.
Informal enquires should be addressed to the head of the psychology dept, Prof. Ormerod (t.ormerod@ at ancaster.ac.uk, tel. 01524 593164). Application forms are available via the Psychology or Computing departments' web sites, or from the Psychology postgraduate secretary, Clare Hannon, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YF (c.hannon at lancaster.ac.uk, 01524 94975).