Applications are invited for a Permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant
Professor in Information and Communication Studies within UCD School of
Information and Communication Studies.
We invite applications from scholars who can complement and expand our
current strengths in HCI, Communication and/or Media based teaching and
research, contributing to the growth of our MSc Information Systems
and/or our MSc Communication & Media programmes.
==The School==The School of Information & Communication Studies (UCS
ICS) is a QS 2019 top 50 ranked school and the only Irish member of the
iSchool network. The school’s research and teaching is at the
intersection of technologies, people, and information. In particular the
school has research strengths in human-computer interaction, digital
media and platform studies, information design, social computing/social
media, data analytics, artificial intelligence, information literacy,
and other related topics. The school has an active research environment,
housing a number of permanent academic staff, PhD students and PostDocs,
receiving both national and European level funding. Academics in the
school are members of the SFI ADAPT Centre (https://www.adaptcentre.ie/)
and SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality
(D-REAL-
https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/digital-enhanced-reality/)
and Machine Learning (ML- Labs
https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/machine-learning/).
The school has leading masters programmes in the areas of HCI/Systems
Design (MSc information Systems), Communications (MSc Communication &
Media), Library and Information Studies (MLIS) and Digital Curation and
Information Management (MSc Digital Information Management).
==HCI@UCD Group== The HCI@UCD group (https://www.hci.ucd.ie/) is a
collaboration between academics at the School of Information &
Communication Studies and the School of Computer Science. It is one of
the largest HCI groups in Ireland publishing regularly in leading HCI
venues. Academics in UCD ICS lead research strands in Conversational
User Interfaces & Interaction Science (Dr Benjamin Cowan) and
Communication, Media & Ethical Design (Dr Marguerite Barry). Academics
in the group collaborate regularly with international researchers in
their related fields of study.
==The applicant== We are looking for the successful applicant to
contribute to and strengthen our research and teaching activity, with
particular emphasis on HCI and Communications research and teaching
domains. Further specifications can be found by visiting
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ > External Applicants > Search by UCD
School/Unit (Information & Comms Studies).
It is anticipated that interviews will take place in January 2020. The
appointed Lecturer will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2020.
95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar Salary Scale: €53,773 - €
84,544 per annum.
Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department
of Finance guidelines
Closing date: 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 1st December 2019
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified.
Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of
17:00hrs (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be
cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late
applications.
Prior to application, further information (including application
procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website:
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/.
Informal enquiries about the role can be made to Prof. Eugenia Siapera
([log in to unmask] - Head of School - UCS ICS) and/or Dr Benjamin
Cowan ([log in to unmask] Co-Director of HCI@UCD group & Director of
MSc Information Systems).
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Benjamin R Cowan PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Information & Communication Studies
University College Dublin
Twitter: @BCowanHCI
Web: www.benjamincowan.com
NB- I do not check my email at weekends or much in the evening.
If anything is urgent please phone.
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Recent papers:
Clark, L., et al., (In Press). What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents. Proceedings of CHI 2019, Glasgow, UK.
Pinder, C., Vermeulen, J., Cowan, B.R. & Beale, R. (2018). Digital Behaviour Change Interventions to Break and Form Habits. ACM TOCHI.
Gilmartin et al., (2018). Explorations in multiparty casual social talk and its relevance for social human machine dialogue. Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces, 12, 4, 297-308
Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Clark, L., & Cowan, B. R. (2018). Design guidelines for hands-free speech interaction. Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
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