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> UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
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> Division of Applied Computing, Schools of Design and Life Sciences
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> RESEARCH ASSISTANT: ETHNOGRAPHER - INFORMATION BEHAVIOURS IN LIFE
> SCIENCES LABORATORIES
> £20,044 - £22,289 per annum/pay award pending
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> We require a creative and enthusiastic ethnographer to join our
> EPSRC funded e-science project team (http://
> www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ac_research/OME.pdf). The project is
> investigating new forms of interaction design to enable ease of
> access by the life sciences community to large collections of
> images produced by new imaging technologies. In particular this
> project seeks to develop a usable interface to the Open Microscopy
> Environment (http://openmicroscopy.org). The BBSRC and Wellcome
> Trust funded OME is a tool developed by a worldwide consortium of
> life sciences labs, and coordinated through the Wellcome Trust
> Biocentre in Dundee, in the laboratory of Dr Jason Swedlow. The OME
> is a test bed for developing techniques to assist the production of
> genuinely useful and usable interaction styles and interfaces to
> large complex datasets, within the wider e-science community.
>
> A crucial part of the project is to develop a rich understanding of
> the context of imaging work in the life sciences. The design
> ethnographer’s primary responsibilities will be:
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> - to conduct primary qualitative research to understand the
> information behaviours of life scientists, with specific reference
> to their needs for and responses to imaging technologies,
> - to translate research results into actionable ideas for design,
> - to collaborate with the other design stakeholders in developing
> techniques for communicating and exploiting these ideas within
> ongoing design processes
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> The ideal candidate will have a passion for understanding people, a
> background in qualitative work practice studies and a strong
> interest in working within a design context. S/he will also have at
> least a 2:1 Honours, and preferably a postgraduate qualification
> (Masters or PhD), in the social sciences, anthropology or
> interaction design/HCI. An interest in visual ethnography would be
> useful.
>
> The position is offered for 18 months and will be based in the
> Division of Applied Computing at the University of Dundee, with
> some travel to other laboratories required.
>
> Further details and an application pack are available from our
> website: www.jobs.dundee.ac.uk Alternatively, contact Personnel
> Services, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, tel: (01382)
> 344817 (answering machine). Please quote Reference number EPS/
> 1374/WW
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>
>
> Closing date: 19 July 2006
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>
>
> The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and
> welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
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> UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
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> Division of Applied Computing, Schools of Design & Life Sciences
>
> RESEARCH ASSISTANT/INTERACTION DESIGNER/DEVELOPER: INTERFACES TO
> VERY LARGE LIFE SCIENCES DATASETS
> (£20,044 - £22,289 per annum/pay award pending)
>
> We require a versatile, creative interactive system designer/
> developer to join our EPSRC funded e-science project team ().
>
> The work will involve the investigation of interaction design to
> enable ease of access by the life sciences community to large
> collections of images produced by the latest microscopes. These
> images are often produced in large sets over a period of time and
> require substantial processing and analysis. We are investigating
> new interaction design techniques within an existing project, the
> Open Microscopy Environment. A critical component of this system is
> a well developed user-interface that facilitates management of the
> resulting collection, including the results of analyses carried out
> on images (for more information about the BBSRC and Wellcome Trust
> funded Open Microscopy Environment project, see (). The designer/
> developer will be based in the School of Computing and will work
> with a design ethnographer attached to the project, the life
> sciences user community and the existing development team at the
> Wellcome Trust Biocentre in the laboratory of Dr Jason Swedlow.
>
> The successful candidate will work closely with the design
> ethnographer to seek insights into the scientific expectations of
> the environment, matching system interfaces to the working
> practices of scientists. Skills in requirements capture, usability
> evaluation, prototyping appropriate interfaces and gathering
> meaningful data about their suitability in a highly iterative
> environment will be required. The OME is a test bed for developing
> techniques to assist the production of interaction styles, and
> interfaces, which are genuinely useful and usable in situations
> involving large complex datasets in the wider e-science community.
> The ideal candidate will have at least a good first degree (2:1 or
> above) in HCI, computer science, interaction design or a related
> area. The position is offered for 3 years. Part-time/job share
> will be considered.
>
> Further details and an application pack are available from our
> website: www.jobs.dundee.ac.uk Alternatively, contact Personnel
> Services, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, tel: (01382)
> 344817 (answering machine). Please quote Reference number EPS/
> 1373/WW
>
> Closing date: 19 July 2006
>
> The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and
> welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
>
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> UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
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> Division of Applied Computing, Schools of Design & Life Sciences
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> PhD Studentship: Design Ethnography and Usable Imaging Technologies
> for Life Scientists.
>
> Closing date for applications: 19th July 2006
>
> Project to start: September 2006
> The Schools of Computing, Life Sciences, and Design have a fully
> Funded EPSRC PhD studentship position available from September
> 2006, for a project entitled Designing Usable Imaging Technologies
> for Life Scientists.
> The studentship is funded as part of an EPSRC E-Science research
> project on the development of usable human computer interface tools
> for molecular cell biologists, and the principal supervisor will be
> Dr Catriona Macaulay, Lecturer in Interactive Media Design within
> the Schools of Computing and Design and Director of the Interaction
> Design Lab at the University of Dundee. The thesis theme will
> examine how rich ethnographic data can best be made use of within
> interaction design processes. There is some opportunity within that
> for the selected student to orient the study in directions that
> suit them (for example by focusing on design workshop methods, or
> on visual ethnography as a technique for communicating complex
> information, or on prototype design methods). The successful
> candidate will work with an ethnographer and an interaction
> designer attached to the project.
>
> The studentship provides a three-year maintenance grant which
> includes fees. Candidates should have gained at least a 2.1 Honours
> classification in a relevant subject (for example, Interactive
> Media Design, Computing, Interaction Design, Psychology,
> Ethnography or Anthropology).
>
> Further details on the project are available from: http://
> www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ac_research/OME.PDF
>
> Please apply by email, attaching a copy of your cv (MS Word or PDF
> format only) and contact details for 2 referees, to Dr Catriona
> Macaulay ([log in to unmask]).
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> Closing date for applications: July 19th 2006.
>
> The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and
> welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
>
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