[Air-L] Fwd: Job: 5-years position for a PhD in the area ofInteractive/Multimedia Design

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Luís Teixeira <lteixeira at PORTO.UCP.PT>
> Date: August 21, 2007 9:13:05 AM CDT
> To: PHD-DESIGN at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Job: 5-years position for a PhD in the area ofInteractive/ 
> Multimedia Design
> Reply-To: Luís Teixeira <lteixeira at PORTO.UCP.PT>
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> Please forward this email to all potential interested people. Thanks.
>
> Luis
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> P.S. - Sorry for duplicate messages.
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> Assistant Researcher in the area of Interactive/Multimedia Design
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> http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx? 
> task=global&jobId=6889
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> CITAR invites applications for Assistant Researcher in the area of  
> Interactive/Multimedia Design to be responsible for the design and  
> development of multimedia contents, translating scientific data and  
> public requirements into creative, highly usable interfaces, design  
> wireframes and prototypes, plan and run usability tests, and write  
> detailed user interface specification documents.
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> The selected candidate will integrate the multidisciplinary team of  
> this project, Science and Society – promoting citizenship through  
> the reflection on ethical issues in life sciences. The project is  
> the result of the established partnership between the Centre for  
> Bioethics Research and the Research Centre for Sciences and  
> Technology of the Arts, both belonging to the Portuguese Catholic  
> University [please see UCP/GIB/2007 Job reference]. The Project  
> aims at developing the role that universities and research centres  
> have in the knowledge society as well as their contribute to  
> citizenship
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> CITAR is a research unit of Portuguese Catholic University located  
> at the Regional Centre of Oporto. Citar's mission is to foster  
> scientific research, through art, science and technology. The  
> centre hosts and promotes interdisciplinary studies by fostering  
> work developed together by artists, scientists and engineers with  
> different backgrounds, knowledge, and cultures to create art,  
> audiovisual objects and technologies. Unique in Portugal, it  
> presents a model of practice-based research and innovation in which  
> scientific and technologic investigation is undertaken using  
> traditional methods and experience from arts.
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> Requirements: The applicant will be responsible for the different  
> aspects of content production, including concept, content and  
> communicating design, by analyzing specific life science content  
> and user scenarios for different target audiences and proposing new  
> user interaction design and content production to meet project  
> goals for the best possible user experience. The applicant will  
> work with multidisciplinary teams to plan the navigational  
> structure, design the interface requirements, and develop  
> multimedia content needs for the different types of projects that  
> can vary from CD/DVD-ROMs, Flash applications, or Web Applications.
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> Salary and Benefits: Salary will be ca. 42 000 €/year before  
> taxes, in accordance with the Ciência 2007 guidelines. Benefits  
> include private health insurance, social security and paid vacations.
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> Application Procedure:
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> Candidates should send the following by mail to the address  
> mentioned below*
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> - CV (including an e-mail address and publication list).
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> - Portfolio (online and DVD)
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> - Motivation letter
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> - Name and contact information for 2-3 persons who can provide a  
> letter of recommendation if needed.
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> Contact for further information:
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> Luàs Teixeira
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> CITAR - Portuguese Catholic University
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> Porto, Portugal
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> Telephone: +351-22-6196214
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> Fax: +351-22-6196291
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> Email: lteixeira at porto.ucp.pt
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> Application deadline:
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> 05 September 2007
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron