Interface Your Fears
« Freelance job: usability test moderator, NY/NJ | Jobs @ OK/Cancel | Usability Engineer Trainee, XRT »
Research Assistant in Human Interaction, QMUL
Mar 11 04
Source: BCS-HCI
Department Of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
Research Assistant in Human Interaction
Salary up to £20,311 per annum plus £2,134 London Allowance, depending on qualifications and experience.
Applications are invited for a research assistant to work under the supervision of Dr Nicholas Bryan-Kinns, on an EPSRC funded project to investigate Engaging Collaborations.
The aim of the work is to investigate features of human interaction which contribute to mutual engagement in creative collaborations taking group music improvisation as an exemplar domain. This will involve studying group music improvisation in a conventional setting such as free jazz improvisation, developing novel tools to supports new forms of improvisation remotely, and studying the use of such forms of interaction and their effect on levels of mutual engagement.
Candidates must have a Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. In particular, the candidate should have experience of developing novel interactive systems for performing music and experience of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques.
Candidates will be considered who have a subset of these skills and are keen to develop the other required skills. In addition, candidates may have the opportunity to study for a PhD in conjunction with this post.
Applications in the form of a letter and curriculum vitae with the names and email addresses of two academic referees, who may be contacted prior to interview, must be sent to: David Irving, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Please quote reference number 04043/FD. Further particulars and an application form are available from:
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~nickbk/particulars/
Informal enquiries about the position should be made to Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns, by E-mailing nickbk at dcs.qmul.ac.uk or by telephoning 0207 882 7845.
The closing date for applications is 2nd April 2004.
Interviews will be held in the first week of May 2004 with the post starting in June 2004 or soon after.