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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 student will also have the opportunity to work closely with researchers in ubiquitous computing at their London office as part of this project. EPSRC guidelines require candidates to 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 and a summary of research interests along with names/addresses of two referees to Dr Pragya Agarwal. Details are given below. Informal queries regarding the studentship can also be addressed to Dr P Agarwal. Closing Date: 30 November 2006. Dr Pragya Agarwal Lecturer in GIScience Director, MSc (GIS) Department of Geomatic Engineering University College London London WC1E 6BT Phone: +44 20 7679 2730 Email: pagarwal at ge.ucl.ac.uk ________________________________ Dr Duncan Wilson Associate http://blogs.driversofchange.com/emtech/ Arup Foresight Innovation + Incubation 13 Fitzroy St, London, W1T 4BQ, UK tel: +44 20 7755 2794 fax: +44 20 7755 3378 mob: +44 7799 133 540 skype: drdunc our team (http://www.arup.com/skill.cfm?pageid=2496) http://www.arup.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Electronic mail messages entering and leaving Arup business systems are scanned for acceptability of content and viruses