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POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
LIMERICK
The Media Technology Group is a vibrant interdisciplinary research team
based in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the
University of Limerick. Applications from outstanding graduates wishing to
pursue research leading to a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science specialising
in Interactive Media Systems are invited.
The research of the Media Technology Group, is an exciting mix of academic,
technical and applied specialists in the fields of Computer Science and
Information Systems, Mathematics and Statistics, Electronics, and Material
Sciences. The group has developed links with a range of outstanding partners
such as the Irish World Music Centre (IWMC). The IWMC is a postgraduate
music and dance unit with nine MA programs interlinked by a unique elective
system where, if interested, students can pursue projects relating to music
technology. The Media Technology Group has also developed MSc programs in
Music Technology and Interactive Media that have attracted outstanding
candidates from around the world.
Research in this project addresses a range of technical, theoretical and
practical issues in the development of interactive performance systems.
Novel input devices are currently at an exciting development and application
stage - for example a floor that tracks footsteps. - This research
specialisation emphasises the development of bodily control of creative
processes through performance.
The current research project seeks to recruit brilliant, enthusiastic and
flexible people to research interactive performance systems architectures
and sensor technology. The research is currently focused on the LiteFoot
project, a dance floor with embedded proximity sensors that is used as an
input device and controller in generating multimedia processes in response
to the movements of choreographers or dancers as they move.
Applicants should have excellent programming skills but more importantly,
creative individuals who work with flair and imagination are sought. The
creation of visual and auditory compositions via bodily movement raises
representational and control issues. Modelling the relationship between
different perceptual modalities so that these models can be used by artists
and others in the creative process is central to this research work.
Opportunities to discover the visual and performing arts applications of
technology abound in this project and it is certain that applicants will
enrich their own creative energies and interests in the realisation of this
project.
Details of the LiteFoot project can be found at
http://www.ul.ie/~pal/litefoot/ <http://www.ul.ie/~pal/litefoot/>
For informal queries, please contact
Niall Griffith +353 61 202785, [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Mikael Fernstrom +353 61 202606, [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject to satisfactory progress, funding for successful applicants will be
for 3 years and will include: payment of fees, a (tax free) stipend of 6,000
pounds per annum, travel costs to attend selected conferences and to visit
collaborators in other institutions.
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