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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Postdoctoral Researcher Position “Creative Technologies”,
UT-Human Media Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Human Media
Interaction (HMI) Department of the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Telematics</st1:PlaceName> and Information
technology (CTIT) of the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Twente</st1:PlaceName>, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>, has a vacancy for a
postdoctoral researcher on Creative Technologies for a period of two years.</span></font><b><font
size=4 color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Research
on ambient intelligence (ubiquitous computing and social and intelligent
interfaces) has made it possible to introduce games and entertainment where not
only the user’s physical activity is detected, tracked and monitored, but
where also this physical activity (probably complemented with physiological and
mental state information) is a major interaction modality to the game or
entertainment environment. Information obtained from these modalities can be
used to control the environment and also to let the environment adapt to the
particular user by deriving preferences and personality characteristics from
the user’s</span> behavior</font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:black'>. Technology that made it possible to develop engaging
games and environments that require bodily interaction is now also being
considered for environments for sports, physiotherapy, health-care prevention,
and patient examination.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The requested
postdoctoral researcher is expected to perform research on interactive
entertainment, strengthening the current HMI activities in this area. The
emphasis should be on bodily interaction in so-called exertion interfaces.
Research in this area also allows applications in sports, health care and
education. In the HMI approach to exertion interfaces interaction can be both
with human and virtual partners. Interaction is engaging and social, including
motivating community aspects. The main research question we want to tackle is
how to anticipate a user’s actions, taking into account other
(supporting) events in the physical environment. Armed with knowledge of this
research field the postdoctoral researcher is assumed to support the current
and new HMI activities that aim at taking more part in European and Dutch
initiatives in creative technology research.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The HMI Department of the
CTIT comprises more than forty researchers (including 20 Ph.D. students). It is
involved in many European and national projects and Networks of Excellence on
smart surroundings, ambient intelligence, multimodal interaction, speech and
natural language processing, multimedia retrieval, embodied agents, virtual
reality, adaptive user interfaces and affective computing, games and entertainment
computing. The HMI Department is also responsible for the Master of Science
track "Human Media Interaction" with more than fifty students. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Gross salary of a postdoctoral researcher starts at Euro 2740,--, but
it also depends on expertise and experience. Please send applications (with CV)
or requests for more information by email to Prof.dr. Anton Nijholt
(anijholt@cs.utwente.nl).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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