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Applications are invited for a studentship for full-time, three-year
funded Ph.D. studentship starting on 1 October 2004. The student will be
based at The Open University campus at Walton Hall in Milton Keynes.
Applicants should have obtained, by the start of study, a first class or
upper second class degree, and preferably a Masters, in Computing or
related discipline.
The Department is undertaking research within a number of themes (AI &
natural language processing; empirical studies of software development;
human-computer interaction; requirements engineering & design) and
priority will be given to applications that address one of our open PhD
projects (http://computing.open.ac.uk/Research/List_PhD_Proposals.cfm)
Note that around a dozen of these projects focus specifically on HCI or
closely related
topics, including:
* Mobile and Ubiquitous HCI: there are numerous specific projects within
this area including, amongst other things: Gesture; Older People; Music;
and the Evaluation of new Interaction Principles.
* There are several projects to do with Web-based systems and HCI,
including:
Educational issues in Web-based E-learning; User issues in Web-agent
Recommendation and Negotiation; and Trust in E-Commerce.
* There are several other HCI projects on diverse topics such as:
Visualisation of Evolving Hierarchies; HCI and Aspects; Navigation, and
HCI and Music.
Finally, there are also projects in areas cognate to HCI such as empirical
studies of Software Engineering (including XP).
Full details of these and other projects can be found at
(http://computing.open.ac.uk/Research/List_PhD_Proposals.cfm).
We encourage applicants to contact potential supervisors before
applying.
For more information, please contact the Department's Postgraduate
Research Tutor, Dr Neil Smith ([log in to unmask]), or the Director of
Research, Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh ([log in to unmask]).
Administrative information can be requested from the Research Secretary,
Merisa Hooton (Tel: +44 - (0)1908-858462; email:
[log in to unmask]).
Application forms are available from the Research School (
http://www.open.ac.uk/research-school/prospectus/pdf/5_1a.pdf ) which
also has details on becoming a full-time research student
(http://www.open.ac.uk/research-school ).
The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 18 June 2004.
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