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HCI Graduate Assistantship, Oregon State University
Nov 29 05
Source: CHI-Jobs
TaskTracer – Next Generation of Desktop User Interfaces HCI Research Assistantships for graduate students in Computer Science School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon Application Deadline: January 15th, 2006
Want to be part of research that is applying exciting HCI research to achieve enormous broader impact? Come join a research group that is building innovative next generation intelligent user interfaces for day-to-day information work – document creation, email, web browsing, etc.
The TaskTracer (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/TaskTracer) project at Oregon State University is developing fully-functional prototypes of new task-oriented personal computer environments that track a user's interactions with applications, automatically organize the user's information naturally according to tasks, and intelligently leverage the collected data to make desktop applications more task-aware. TaskTracer not only improves personal productivity by reducing physical overhead and cognitive costs, but also will support collaboration in workgroups by allowing the sharing of task profiles - records of how a user completed a task, incorporating both the resources used, and high level records of actions on those resources. The TaskTracer group has recently received national attention – it is well-funded by federal sources such as the National Science Foundation, DARPA, and industry sources such as Intel, and its staff includes multiple professors, full time programming and research staff, and numerous PhD, MS, and undergraduate research assistants.
The TaskTracer group is now looking for graduate students, both MS and PhD with background and interests in Human Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, and Cognitive Science to fill research assistantships, starting Fall 2006 and likely continuing in future years. We are looking for students to work and lead work on designing and evaluating innovative user interfaces, designing and running user studies, and analyzing data collected in user studies.
Required skills:
* Background in human-computer interaction, usability engineering, cognitive science, information science, or related field.
* Undergraduate degree in computer science or background in basic computer science (necessary for graduate coursework)
* Strong communication skills, particularly verbal
* Must enjoy and desire tight collaborative work
Things you should mention when applying, if appropriate (but not required):
* Outgoing personality, desire for leadership, desire to continually improve one’s environment
* Experience with designing user interfaces for information management, particularly the desktop
* Experience with rapid visual prototyping
* Experience with designing or performing empirical user studies
* Experience working with artificial intelligence, knowledge management, information retrieval
To apply for these positions, please submit application materials as described at:
http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/graduate/admissions.html
Be sure to specify Human-Computer Interaction as your primary research interest area. Also, please send a copy of a cover letter to Jon Herlocker, herlock@eecs.oregonstate.edu, explaining why you are interested in HCI research on personal information systems.
If you have any questions, please contact Jon Herlocker Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator, TaskTracer Research Group herlock@eecs.oregonstate.edu
541-737-8894