The HMI group at the UT performs research in the areas of natural interaction and intelligent environments: Natural interaction research includes human-computer interaction, multimedia processing, dialogue modeling, multimodal interaction, and brain-computer interfacing. Intelligent environment research includes multi-party interaction, embodied conversational agents (virtual humans), and virtual and augmented reality.
The group covers a broad research field dealing with capturing, analysis, fusion, interpretation, transformation and fission of multimodal data. Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of multimodal input and multimedia data can take place in a static (off-line) or dynamic (on-line) context. In the off-line case the emphasis is on providing intelligent access (retrieval) to stored multimedia, where intelligent refers to the possibility to manipulate stored multimedia in order to provide cross-modal multimedia presentations. In the on-line case we have multimodal interaction with reactive and pro-active smart environments and devices.
The chair will be the head of the HMI group. The group has four part-time professors in the areas of speech and language technology, affective computing, information retrieval and image processing. The group also has two full-time associate professors in the areas of (1) multimodal analysis and synthesis of human(oid) behaviour, and (2) graphics, virtual reality and interaction. In addition the group consists of 5 assistant professors, about 20 PhD students, about 5 postdoctoral scientists and some administrative, technical and managerial support.
The chair will be responsible for curriculum and strategic developments for the master Human Media Interaction and is programme leader of the Twente Graduate School programme on Human-Centered Interaction Technologies. The HMI group is an important contributor to the bachelor curriculum Creative Technology. Moreover the research group participates in development and teaching in the area of Human Media Interaction in the bachelor and master curricula of Informatics and Business Information Technology.
The successful candidate will head the HMI group. He/she is expected to have a background in one of the areas mentioned above, and will further develop the research agenda of the group, extend and maintain collaboration at departmental, national and international level, and be engaged in the group’s teaching activities. Candidates must have an outstanding publication record, excellent leadership and management qualities, a strong vision on future development of the field and very good teaching skills. Applicants must have a PhD in a relevant area.
Requirements
For more detailed information see our website http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ or contact Professor Roel Wieringa (roelwcs.utwente.nl). Interested candidates are invited to send a resume, publication list and a statement of their research and teaching intereststhrough the application link.
Conditions of employment
The University offers a full time tenured position as Professor with a competitive salary (maximum 8.622,- euro gross per month) and benefits commensurate with your position, experience and qualifications.
Contract type
Permanent
Organisation
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Department
http://www.universiteittwente.nl/education/eemcs
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