Three Year Fully Funded EPSRC Studentship
*_Ambient and ubiquitous designs for context-aware navigation_*
This is a *fully funded three year PhD studentship*. The overall aim of
the project is to explore ways in which navigation services can be
personalised and made more context-aware. This studentship will provide
a very exciting opportunity for a dedicated individual to advance their
knowledge and skills in this cutting edge area.
This project will address several questions related to the interplay of
technology and real world in creating personalised services, and the
nature and usability of technology and the interaction mechanisms used.
In this way, the project will direct future research in two ways: first,
by developing designs for better and more user-friendly navigational
models and second, by directing design of buildings and urban
environments to make them interactive and accessible.
The Department of Geomatic Engineering at University College London has
many leading researchers working in the areas of global positioning
systems, geospatial interoperability and mobile location based services.
The research will be supervised by *Dr Pragya Agarwal* at UCL and the
student will join the GIS Research Group. The Department of Geomatic
Engineering also runs a highly successful Masters in Geographic
Information Science and the successful candidate will also have the
opportunity to attend relevant modules on this course. The studentship
is part funded by ARUP, a global design business and consulting firm,
and the successful candidate will also have the opportunity to work
closely with researchers in ubiquitous computing at ARUP as part of this
project.
Candidates will be British nationals with a good first degree, and
preferably a Masters degree, in geoinformatics, geography, computer
science or related fields. The project will require programming skills
for development of interactive systems and interfaces, some prior
knowledge of GIS and also relevant interest and/or experience in
designing and carrying out human subject experiments, whether in the
field or a lab.
Applications should be sent in form of detailed CV along with
names/addresses of two referees to Dr Pragya Agarwal at
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Informal queries
regarding the studentship can also be addressed to Dr P Agarwal.
*Closing Date: 30 November 2006. *
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Dr Pragya Agarwal
Lecturer in GIScience
Director, MSc (GIS)
Department of Geomatic Engineering
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Phone: +44 20 7679 2730 (internal:32730)
Fax: +44 20 7380 0453
Email: pagarwal at ge.ucl.ac.uk
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