[Air-l] Visiting Position Announcement at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

[James Watt]

The usual apologies for cross-posting and the also usual request that you 
pass this on to any colleagues or graduate students you think might be 
interested. It is an excellent post-doc or sabbatical opportunity, as the 
teaching load will permit about 60% of the person's time to be devoted to 
research, and there are some excellent facilities and colleagues doing 
Internet research in the Rensselaer Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory.



VISITING POSITION IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

The Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute has an open one-year visiting faculty position to 
teach courses related to human-computer interaction, as part of a newly 
approved on-campus and distance-education master's program. Rank open. 
Courses of relevance would complement existing courses in the design of 
interfaces, web design, and performance support. The candidate could offer 
new courses not currently in the curriculum or one or more of the existing 
courses. Though the candidate would teach predominately HCI courses, he or 
she could also teach non-HCI courses. More information about the department 
is available at http://www.llc.rpi.edu.

The candidate should have a doctoral degree in human-computer interaction, 
information design or a related field, with course work and design 
experience in HCI. Experience in the application of HCI theory and research 
to industry a plus. The teaching load is two courses per semester.

The department offers B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication in addition 
to the M.S. in HCI. Faculty are mutidisciplinary, with training in 
communication, computer science, technical communication, rhetoric, 
cultural studies, and other fields. Faculty and students have access to the 
Social and Behavioral Laboratory (http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu) and other 
Institute research facilities.

Rensselaer is a U.S. News and World Report top-50 university with 
approximately 5000 undergraduate and 2500 graduate students. It is located 
in the emerging "Tech Valley" region of the Hudson River Valley with New 
York City, Boston, and Montreal only a few hours away by automobile or 
train. The region is known for its quality of life, with skiing, camping, 
hiking, kayaking and other outdoor recreation opportunities in the 
Adirondack and Berkshire Mountains only an hour or so away.

Appointment begins August 22, 2005.

Send a letter of application and C.V. as attachments to:

wattj at rpi.edu (preferred)

or paper versions to

James Watt
Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180





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James H. Watt
Professor and Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication 
(http://www.llc.rpi.edu)
Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4708
Troy, NY 12180-3590
email: wattj at rpi.edu
voice: (518) 276-2784
fax:   (518) 276-4092