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PhD Studentship on the Negotiated Interaction Project Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow, UK
A three-year PhD studentship is available in the area of novel gestural, audio and tactile user interfaces on the EPSRC-funded "Multimodal, Negotiated Interaction in Mobile Scenarios" project. This is a joint project between the departments of computing science at Glasgow and Swansea Universities.
The project as a whole will investigate and evaluate a new approach to the integration of physical and digital resources which we call negotiated interaction (NI). This framework draws on dynamic systems theory, probabilistic reasoning and multimodal feedback. Our dynamic framework allows us to make use of the continuous control actions humans have evolved to perform on the physical world (grasping, probing, tracking sounds) to create new ways to interact with mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs. Multimodal techniques can be used to present the feedback the human needs to collaborate with the machine. A key part of this proposal will be the careful combination of audio, haptics and gestures in such a way as to give the user a sense of the uncertainty of states in the machine, and, through the continuous negotiation process, to refine the shared understanding of context.
The focus of the PhD studentship will be to design and evaluate dynamic, multimodal interaction techniques. Some key areas to be investigated are:
* The design of new dynamic forms of interaction that use gesture for input and 3D audio and tactile displays for continuous feedback;
* The investigation of two-handed or head+hand gestures;
* Dynamic allocation of modalities to the interaction;
* Novel evaluation methods to assess the effectiveness of the techniques developed.
The PhD will give you the chance to design and evaluate exciting new interaction techniques for mobile devices on a wide range of different platforms.
The post is available from 1 May 2007 (the start date is negotiable up to 6 months so could start anywhere until November) for three years and would suit applicants with a good honours or Masters degree in computing science and an interest in Human-Computer Interaction, multimodal interaction and mobile devices. The student will be supervised by Professor Stephen Brewster, and will be based in the Department of Computing Science at Glasgow, working alongside a postdoctoral researcher at Glasgow and another in Swansea.
The studentship will fully fund a UK or EU student, paying home fees plus the EPSRC standard living allowance (currently £12,500/year). The closing date for applications is 23rd March, 2007.
Applications should include a CV, two references and a covering letter. Application forms and further details are available from www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/NI.shtml <outbind://49/www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/NI.shtml>
Applications should be sent to:
Jacqui Brannan,
Department of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, G12 8QQ,
UK.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the studentship please feel free to email me at [log in to unmask]
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