A post-doctoral research fellowship is available for PhD holders, in the area of Computer Graphics / Serious Games.

This research fellowship has, as overall objective, to develop new methodologies and corresponding platforms, adequate to the design and development of serious games for effective learning.

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The ACM Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences 2013 is co-organized by Paula Viana, partly under the Media Arts and Technologies program.

Immersive Media Experiences 2013
ACM International Workshop

to be held in conjunction with
ACM Multimedia 2013
Barcelona (Spain), October 21-25, 2013

Links
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Workshop: http://immersiveme2013.di.fc.ul.pt/
ACM MM 2013: http://www.acmmm2013.org

There are 3 research openings (2 post-doc level, 1 senior researcher level) in the context of the research program “MAT – Media Arts and Technologies” (http://smc.inescporto.pt/mat/).

Applications are welcome starting immediately, with a final deadline on 20th December 2013. The position will be filled *as soon as possible*.

1. Post-doc research fellowship
   • To work in the Sound and Music Computing group at INESC Porto on the general topic of “Interaction with Music Information”
   • Duration: 12 months, extensible until 30th June 2015
   • Salary: 17.940€ per year (this is the *net* amount, i.e. it is *not* subjected to tax nor deductions)
   • Position enquiry: Fabien Gouyon (fgouyon@inescporto.pt)
   • http://www2.inescporto.pt/ip-en/work-with-us/bolsas-inescporto/concurso-para-a-atribuicao-de-1-bolsa-de-pos-doutoramento-no-ambito-do-projeto-mat-media-arts-and-technology/
2. Post-doc research fellowship
   • To work in the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit at INESC Porto on the general topic of “Social TV”
   • Duration: 12 months, extensible until 30th June 2015
   • Salary: 17.940€ per year  (this is the *net* amount, i.e. it is *not* subjected to tax nor deductions)
   • Position enquiry: Paula Viana (paula.viana@inescporto.pt)
   • http://www2.inescporto.pt/ip-en/work-with-us/bolsas-inescporto/concurso-para-a-atribuicao-de-bolsa-de-pos-doutoramento-no-projeto-mat-media-arts-and-technology-area-de-sistemas-e-aplicacoes-multimedia/
3. Senior research contract
   • To work at the Digital Arts Group at CITAR on the general topic of “Interaction with Music Information”
   • Duration: 12 months, extensible until 30th June 2015
   • Salary: 41.035€ per year (this is the *gross* amount, i.e. it is subjected to legal taxes and deductions)
   • Position enquiry: Luis Gustavo Martins (lmartins@porto.ucp.pt)
   • http://artes.porto.ucp.pt/sites/default/files/files/MAT_Edital_Contrato_PDoc.pdf

We are seeking applicants with a research and publication track record in either:

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Music Information Retrieval
• Music Technology
• Recommender systems
• Emerging paradigms for TV services

The successful applicants are expected to contribute to one or several of the following research lines:

• Computational music description
• Interactive music systems and procedural music generation
• Natural user interfaces (NUI, TUI, NIME, …)
• Personalized content recommendation
• Personalized content creation/management/adaptation
• Social, Connected, Participatory and Interactive audiovisual services

The successful applicants will integrate an international research team and will also have opportunity to collaborate on several funded research projects, together with a number of international partners.

All three positions are full-time, fixed-term, starting as soon as possible.

Location: Porto, Portugal

Working language: English

For more information on INESC Porto’s Sound and Music Computing group and Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit, and CITAR:

• http://smc.inescporto.pt/
• http://www2.inescporto.pt/utm-en?set_language=en&cl=en
• http://artes.ucp.pt/citar
• http://artes.ucp.pt/ccd

The first workshop of the MAT will take place at the INESC Porto on Monday April 29th.

More info on this page.