Aalto University is a new university with over a century of experience. Created from a high-profile merger between three leading universities in Finland – the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Art and Design Helsinki – Aalto University opens up new possibilities for strong multidisciplinary education and research. The university has 20 000 students and a staff of 5 000 including 370 professors.
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) is an institution of higher education for design, media, architecture, motion picture, art education and art. The current key areas of research are design, digital media, audiovisual representation, art, visual culture, welfare architecture and emerging technologies as well as urban planning and design. The school produces specialists and innovators of art, design and architecture with strong artistic and technical skills.
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Media invites applications for
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE or RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Sound and Physical Interaction Research Group
The job begins in winter 2015 and the duration is 4 months full time or part time. The position will remain open until it is filled.
Key Accountabilities and Qualifications
Sound and Physical Interaction (SOPI) research group at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture is looking for a doctoral student or a master’s student to work on a prototype of a smart interface in ambient human interaction context that will a) be interfaced with wearable technologies; b) detect and understand user’s actions and behaviour patterns to customise the functionality of a device to fit user’s needs; c) give the users control over the system with innovative uses of tactile, visual and audio modalities; d) offer adaptive and reactive features to better understand how and when to improve the interaction. This is a continuation project, therefore the tools/systems developed in previous NOISA project (http://sopi.aalto.fi/research/noisa/) will be available to be developed further. The doctoral student or master’s student will be responsible for the research and prototype implementation of this smart interface and its interactive system. The doctoral student and/or master’s student will also be responsible for publishing the results in international peer-reviewed journals.
A doctoral student must have a Master’s degree and possess a post-graduate study place in Aalto University or in any other equivalent University. A Master’s student must be enrolled in a degree programme at Aalto University or at any other equivalent University. The candidate also must have familiarity with sensor input/output devices (kinect v2, myo, leap motion, etc.), knowledge of digital sound synthesis methods & techniques and programming (especially in C, C++, and Pure Data Libpd) and some experience in statistical methods & machine learning techniques.
Location
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Miestentie 3, Espoo, Finland.
Wage level
Salary will be paid according to the University’s salary scheme.
Application period and instructions
Please submit your application through the eRecruitment system no later than 9 February 2015. The link to the eRecruitment system can be found at the bottom of the page. Interested doctoral students and master’s students should send their (1) CV, (2) short statement (up to 1500 words) of their current research or related projects, explaining the intended objectives, and (3) a possible certificate of the post-graduate and/or graduate study right. All application material should be in English.
Aalto University reserves the right for justified reasons to leave the position open, to extend the application period and to consider candidates who have not submitted applications during the application period.
The application materials will not be returned.
Further information
Koray Tahiroğlu
e-mail: koray.tahiroglu<στο>aalto.fi
tel. +358 50 4088441
www.aalto.fi/en
http://sopi.aalto.fi/
http://arts.aalto.fi/en/
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