Open position : assistant/associate professor HCI at Hasselt University

Open position : assistant/associate professor HCI at Hasselt University
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Expertise Centre for Digital Media is a research institute of Hasselt
University, Belgium, hosting research groups in Human-Computer Interaction,
Computer Graphics and Multimedia and Communication Technology.

Currently, we have an open position for an assistant /associate professor in
Human-Computer Interaction
http://www2.uhasselt.be/actueel/vacatures/vac310492.asp

For an assistant professor, this is a tenure track position.

The candidate will perform and guide research related to the research topics
of the HCI group, as there are innovative interaction techniques in
multimodal and virtual environments, haptics, "tangible interaction",
serious games (with applications in e.g. culture and rehabilitation),
model-based development of interactive systems, interaction in networked
virtual environments and collaborative spaces, context aware (mobile)
applications and ubiquitous computing.

The candidate will be involved in education, mainly in the UHasselt Bachelor
and Master programs Computer Science, with master specializations in
Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia and Databases.

With regard to the candidate's profile, we emphasize the fact that a strong
track record in research in one or more of the aforementioned research
topics is necessary. Therefore, concrete former research results such as
high-end publications, involvement in/ acquisition of basic and applied
research projects etc are expected.

Because there is a requirement to be able to teach in Dutch in a
"reasonable" time, the official vacancy text is only provided in Dutch.
Please contact us for all questions in this regard.

Applications are due September 7th, 2010.

Please address information requests to:

Prof. dr. Karin CONINX, karin.coninx@uhasselt.be, HCI research coordinator,
Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) of Hasselt University, campus
Diepenbeek (near Hasselt), Belgium.
tel. 32 - 11 - 26 84 11
http://www.edm.uhasselt.be