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VIRGINIA TECH
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
SENIOR HCI FACULTY POST
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The Department of Computer Science invites applications for a senior-level
faculty position in the area of human-computer interaction starting in
August 2004. The successful candidate should have a PhD degree in Computer
Science or an allied discipline, demonstrated ability to secure research
funding, and ability to lead the established HCI group in the Department.
The candidate should have the ability to teach HCI-related courses and would
be expected to assume the directorship of the University's Center for
Human-Computer Interaction.
HCI has been a major departmental focus for well over a decade. The HCI
group in CS includes at present 6 regular faculty, 6 research faculty, and
at least 50 graduate students. Current projects address collaborative
systems, community and educational computing, user interface software and
tools,3-D user interfaces, notification systems, virtual environments,
visualization, usability engineering, design process, pragmatics of
communication and handheld wireless technology. The CS faculty are
complemented by HCI faculty in Industrial and Systems Engineering who add
expertise in systems and cognitive ergonomics. Our work emphasizes
multidisciplinary cooperation throughout the university and beyond into
diverse areas such as bioinformatics, digital libraries, and computational
science. Additional information about Computer Science can be found at
http://www.cs.vt.edu and on our faculty search page, which
is located at
http://www.cs.vt.edu/site_pages/facultysearch/facultysearch_hci.php.
The Center for Human-Computer Interaction was established in 1995 in
recognition of the highly interdisciplinary nature of the field and to
create a collaborative community of researchers from diverse fields such as
Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Psychology,
Education, and Sociology. The CHCI occupies its own 3000 sq. ft. laboratory
suite in the new Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center.
Please view the center's website at http://www.hci.vt.edu.
Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, a scenic, lively, All-American
Award- winning town in southwest Virginia with affordable housing. Nearby is
the white water of the New River and 1.7M mountainous acres of national
forest.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a 1-2 page research statement,
a 1-2 page teaching statement, and have at least three letters of reference
sent to HCI Faculty Search, Dept. of Computer Science, 660 McBryde Hall,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. PDF file submissions to
[log in to unmask] are preferred. Review of candidates will begin
January 5, 2004, and continue until the position is filled. Virginia Tech is
an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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