Postdoctoral Position – CHI, CSCW.
Location: ICD/Tech-CICO, UMR 6279, Troyes University of Technology, France
Duration: 1 year
Starting September 2010
Salary: 28k€
Context
The candidate will be integrated in a 4 years pluri-disciplinary project
funded by ANR (National Research Agency) focusing on communication and
multi tasking at work.
Description
The post-doctoral mission will consist firstly in leading a functional
analysis of actual computer-mediated communication tools, in particular
email systems, and the way these tools are used to manage multi-tasking
work situations. The work will benefit from the results of another
analysis already conducted in the project by researchers in psychology
and conversational analysis about the strategies in use when writing
e-mails. The link between these observed strategies and the existing
functionalities of email systems will be questioned, for instance: are
these strategies reinforcing existing functions (e.g. writing “Urgent”
in the email subject and using the “important” tag)? Or do these
strategies exist to compensate for the functional weaknesses of the
system (e.g. quoting several previous messages in order to reconstruct a
thematic coherence)? Based on this critical analysis of existing
systems, the aim is to design new functionalities allowing users to be
“assisted” in their daily use of email systems, in order to enable them
to acquire and to implement skills related to the management of
communication and multitasking at work.
Profile
Ability to work in a multi disciplinary environment
Familiar with user-centred design
Being experienced in rapid prototyping
Skills related to the development of interfaces and multimedia contents
( (Java, Ajax, Flash, Director, TCL-TK, PHP,…)
Knowledge of e-mail API
Basic knowledge of network programming
Contact :
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Myriam Lewkowicz
Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor
Institut Charles Delaunay - UMR CNRS 6279
Tech-CICO (Technologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction
et les Connaissances dans les Collectifs)
Universite de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
12, rue Marie Curie, BP 2060, 10010 TROYES CEDEX, FRANCE
Tel. 33 (0)3 25 71 + 80 67(direct)/80 08(secr.)/76 98(fax)
mob. 33 (0)6 16 47 13 53
www.utt.fr - http://techcico.utt.fr - http://myriam.lewkowicz.free.fr/
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