[Corpora-List] Position: Junior Research Scientist (Voice/Multimodal User Interface-HCI) at Trento

[Sebastian Varges]

** Junior Research Scientist (Voice/Multimodal User Interface-HCI) **

Job description:  The research scientist will be investigating
     innovative adaptive user interfaces for spoken and/or multimodal
     conversational systems.  He/she will be a member of the ADAMACH
     (`Adaptive and Meaning Machines') research team funded by a Marie
     Curie Excellence grant. The perspective candidate will have a key
     role in defining new models of human-computer interaction based on
     experimental work and evaluation of human-machine interactions. The
     candidate's responsibilities will include the design and supervision
     of the user interface experiments carried out within the ADAMACH project.

Requirements: The research scientist we are looking for has a Ph.D. in
     Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related disciplines. He/She
     has a background in human-machine user interface research for
     spoken and/or multimodal conversational systems.  He/she will have
     an international research track record and strong publication
     record in the VUI-HCI field. He/She will have strong programming
     skills.

How to apply: The University of Trento is an equal opportunity
     employer. Interested applicants should submit their CV along with
     their statement of research interest and reference letters before
     01/11/2007.  The position is open until filled, and the duration of the
     contract will be 24 months.  It is recommended to contact us before
     submitting a formal application:

     Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi           Dr. Sebastian Varges
     Email: riccardi at dit.unitn.it           Email: varges at dit.unitn.it
     www.dit.unitn.it/~riccardi             www.dit.unitn.it/~varges

The Research Lab: The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface
    (AMI2, casa.dit.unitn.it) research lab pursues excellence research
    in next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human
    communication. The AMI2 lab has a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure
    and collaborations with premiere international research centers and
    industry research labs.

    The Ph.D. research fellowships are funded by the prestigious
    Marie Curie Excellence grant awarded by the European Commission for
    cutting edge and interdisciplinary research. There have been many
    advances in the field of speech recognition and text-to-speech
    synthesis in the last decade. However, human-machine conversational
    system are still severely limited in the ability to understand and
    interact. The general research challenge of the project is to
    investigate innovative multimodal interfaces that will be adaptive,
    affective, usable and knowledgeable.


About University of Trento and Information and Communication
    Technology Department: The University of Trento is constantly
    ranked as premiere Italian graduate university institution (see
    www.dit.unitn.it).  The DIT Department has a strong focus on
    Interdisciplinarity with professors from different faculties of the
    University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics,
    Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with
    international background.  English is the official language.