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- From: M.Ennis@city.ac.uk (M. Ennis)
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- Subject: Research Post
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 16:20:59 +0200
- Organization: City University
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- City University, London
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- School of Informatics: Centre for HCI Design
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- Esprit Project MultiMedia Broker
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- Research Assistant in Human Computer Interaction/ Software Engineering
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- Applications are invited for a Research Assistant post on Esprit Project
- Multimedia Broker which aims to research and develop the advanced user
- interfaces for broker systems serving the needs of authors and resource
- suppliers/owners of multimedia databases with assistance for information
- seeking and retrieval.
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- The project covers specification of information seeking and brokering
- services for multimedia authors and resources vendors, involving task
- analysis, interface design and implementation of distributed (WWW)
- co-operative assistant tools. Research issues concern development of
- dialogue management to support information seeking, provision of relevance
- feedback, and negotiation services. The dialogue manager will control a
- toolset for navigation via conceptual maps to explore resource databases,
- query formulation, browsing through information sets and presentation of
- retrieved results. The RA duties involve specification of dialogue
- management functionality and development of a demonstrator system.
- Experience in design of user interface management systems, intelligent
- dialogue management, and programming skills in C/C++ will be
- advantageous. Usability evaluation is a key aspect of the project plan, so
- experience in this area is also desirable.
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- Applicants should have a good honours degree in Computer Science, Software
- Engineering or Cognitive Science. The appointment will be for 30 months on
- the Research Associate IB/IA scale, salary from ú14,317 to ú21,519 (p=
- lus ú3 2134 London weighting).
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- Application is by curriculum vitae. For further details please contact the
- Liz Bromley, Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University,
- Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, tel. 0171-477-8427,
- e.m.bromley@city.ac.uk. For informal enquiries contact Professor Sutcliffe
- on 0171-477-8411, or e-mail a.g.sutcliffe@city.ac.uk, and Word wide web
- background information on http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/hcid/index.html
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- Applications by curriculum vitae should be received by March 29th
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