ViSmedia Hunting Visualisation Techies for Prototype Research
Are you interested in developing new technologies? Would you like to take video production one step further?
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The ViSmedia project is seeking candidates for a vacant PhD position in HCI and program development to begin in September 2016.聽Read more about the vacant position at jobbnorge.no:
The preferred candidate will have the opportunity to team up with experienced researchers Lars Nyre and Bjornar Tessem in the Department of Information Science and Media 大象传媒, and will be a member of the ViSmedia research group.
鈥淲e are very excited about the new project that we are soon starting,鈥� says Professor Nyre. 聽鈥淥ur aim is to build several prototypes of a new audiovisual information system. 聽The project will include user investigations and interaction design as well as programming. 聽We want to explore new visual technologies for searching, tagging, manipulating, and distributing news videos on cell phones.鈥�
Professor Bjornar Tessem adds, 鈥渢he candidate we鈥檙e looking for will be engaged in the visual program development and a number of experiments. 聽He or she should be prepared to work on a variety of visual data sources. 聽We intend to advance options for facial recognition as well as other types of visual recognition.鈥�
The candidate will be part of a larger team that will construct a new media prototype for a period of three years. 聽Nyre will be responsible for content production and user testing, while Tessem will oversee the programming of the prototype. 聽The ViSmedia network, headed by Professor Astrid Gynnild, will give feedback to the prototype team based on preliminary findings, and aid in the testing and adjusting of the new medium.