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Applications are invited for the Ad Astra Fellows Lecturer/Assistant
Professor (Tenure Track) in Information and Communication Studies
within UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. <br>
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We invite applications from scholars who can complement and expand
our current research strengths, with focus in particular on
quantitative and/or mixed methods based HCI research. <br>
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==The School==The School of Information & Communication Studies
(UCS ICS) is a QS top 50 ranked school and the only Irish member of
the iSchool network. The school’s research and teaching is at the
intersection of technologies, people, and information. In particular
the school has research strengths in human-computer interaction,
digital media and platform studies, information design, social
computing/social media, data analytics, artificial intelligence,
information literacy, and other related topics. The school has an
active research environment, housing a number of permanent academic
staff, PhD students and PostDocs, receiving both national and
European level funding. Academics in the school are members of the
SFI ADAPT Centre (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.adaptcentre.ie/">https://www.adaptcentre.ie/</a>) and SFI Centre for
Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (D-REAL-
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/digital-enhanced-reality/">https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/digital-enhanced-reality/</a>)
and Machine Learning (ML- Labs
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/machine-learning/">https://www.sfi.ie/funding/centres-research-training/machine-learning/</a>).
The school has leading masters programmes in the areas of HCI (MSc
in HCI), Systems Design (MSc information Systems), Communications
(MSc Communication & Media), Library and Information Studies
(MLIS) and Digital Curation and Information Management (MSc Digital
Information Management). <br>
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==HCI@UCD Group== The HCI@UCD group (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hci.ucd.ie/">https://www.hci.ucd.ie/</a>) is a
collaboration between academics at the School of Information &
Communication Studies and the School of Computer Science. It is one
of the largest HCI groups in Ireland publishing regularly in leading
HCI venues. Academics in UCD ICS lead research strands in
Conversational User Interfaces & Interaction Science (Dr
Benjamin Cowan) and Communication, Media & Ethical Design (Dr
Marguerite Barry). Academics in the group collaborate regularly with
international researchers in their related fields of study. <br>
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==The applicant== We are looking for the successful applicant to
contribute to and strengthen our research with particular emphasis
on quantitative and mixed methods approaches to HCI. Further
specifications can be found by visiting
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/">https://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/</a><br>
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==Application Procedure== <span>
<div>Prior to application, further information (including
application procedure) should be obtained from the UCD Ad Astra
Fellow website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/">http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/</a></div>
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<div>95 Lecturer/Assistant Professor (above the bar) Salary
Scale: <strong>€55,397 - €87,724 per annum</strong></div>
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<div>Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the
Department of Finance guidelines</div>
<div>Closing date: 17.00hrs (Local Irish Time) on <strong>14th
February 2022</strong></div>
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<div>Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time
specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the
closing time of 17:00hrs (Irish Local Time) on the specified
closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD
are unable to accept late applications.</div>
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<div><strong>Please note</strong>: the eRecruitment system only
requests the names of two referees. The full list of 3 referees
should be included in the text of your application.</div>
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Informal enquiries about the role can be made to Prof. Eugenia
Siapera (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eugenia.siapera@ucd.ie">eugenia.siapera@ucd.ie</a> - Head of School - UCS ICS) and/or
Dr Benjamin Cowan (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:benjamin.cowan@ucd.ie">benjamin.cowan@ucd.ie</a>- Co-Director of HCI@UCD
group & Director of MSc HCI). <br>
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Benjamin R Cowan PhD
Associate Professor
School of Information & Communication Studies
University College Dublin
Twitter: @BCowanHCI
NB- I do not respond or check emails at weekends or in the evening.
If anything is urgent please phone.
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Recent papers:
Garaialde, D., Cox, A.L., & Cowan, B.R. (2021). Designing gamified rewards to encourage repeated app selection: Effect of reward placement. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581921000793">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581921000793</a>
Doyle, P., Clark, L. & Cowan, B.R. (2021). What Do We See in Them? Identifying Dimensions of Partner Models for Speech Interfaces Using a Psycholexical Approach. Proceeedings of CHI 2021. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02094">https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02094</a>
Baxter, M. et al., (2021). “You, Move There!”: Investigating the Impact of Feedback on Voice Control in Virtual Environments. Proceedings of CUI 2021. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3469595.3469609">https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3469595.3469609</a>
Edwards, J., Janssen, C., Gould, S., & Cowan, B.R. (2021). Eliciting Spoken Interruptions to Inform Proactive Speech Agent Design. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02077">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02077</a>
Langevin et al., (2021). Heuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents. Proceedings of CHI 2021. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://faculty.washington.edu/garyhs/docs/langevin-CHI2021-caheuristics.pdf">https://faculty.washington.edu/garyhs/docs/langevin-CHI2021-caheuristics.pdf</a>
Wu, Y. et al (2020). See What I’m Saying? Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistant Use for Native and Non-Native Language Speakers. 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06328">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06328</a></pre>
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