Assistant professor Multimodal Interaction Design for User Experience within Future Everyday Group

“Future Everyday bridges the gap between emerging technologies and people’s everyday life.”

The Future Everyday cluster is a highly ambitious community of design researchers, concerned with understanding, exploring, and shaping an everyday life of individuals/small groups that encompasses the new reality of living and working, in spaces that are becoming more responsive, continuous and experiential in the future with emerging technologies. Currently, we focus on designing with technologies such as internet of things, wearables/soft things, small/local data, machine learning --- and designing for aesthetics in an everyday life with all the nuances and subtleties that are inherently dynamic, ever-changing and shaped by personal and collective values, needs and desires. We seek to better understand how to create the right conditions --- over time and space --- to allow human-technology relationships to grow and adapt to future situations.

Specific qualities for this position:

• Design researcher in the broader area of Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (including topics such as shape-changing interfaces or soft robotics)
• Design for User Experience: Skilled in Research through Design processes.
• Study new directions of user experience in the future everyday, also in relation to intelligent interfaces and systems present in the context
• Design of new multimodal interaction styles for the future everyday
• Skills in making and prototyping for experiential designs and in-situ evaluation
• Visual and physical analytics  (data physicalisation) in every day life applications (health, learning, automotive)

Job requirements

To strengthen the FE  group we are looking for the following qualities and competences:

• Expertise in R&D methodology
• Interdisciplinary background or expertise in working in interdisciplinary teams
• Expertise in AI, ML, Interactive System Design, Tangible Interaction, UX Design or Multimodal Interaction
• Digital Craftsmanship (e.g. using AI and ML techniques to study and design for aesthetic qualities of human-system interaction; versatility in algorithms, ML paradigms and fluency in state of the art ML technology for the purpose of sensing and information processing)
• Ability to use AI in expressive designs, as an interplay of materiality, interaction, and computation
• Ability to create bridges between research and education
• Designer skills and a feel for aesthetic qualities
• Track record in Design and HCI related conferences such as CHI, TEI, DIS, IUI, EICS or journals
• Willing to apply research in application areas such as Health, Home, Mobility, Vitality, Games & Play, Learning and Fabrication
• Proficiency in English (writing and speaking)
• Portfolio of projects that demonstrate some of the above

It is not necessary that you feature all the mentioned qualities and competences to qualify for one of the vacant positions.

With this general description we aim to draw the attention of potential, suitable (female) candidates whom we would like to invite to come in contact with our ambitious and fast growing department so that we can investigate a possible, mutual match.