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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Benjamin Adams [mailto:badams@cs.ucsb.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 23, 2012 10:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> Matthew Turk<br><b>Subject:</b> Fwd: Applied Cognitive Science & Design Research Opportunities at ETH Zurich<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hey Matthew,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This might be interesting to people in the Fog Lab / MAT.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Thora Tenbrink <<a href="mailto:t.tenbrink@bangor.ac.uk">t.tenbrink@bangor.ac.uk</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>November 23, 2012 9:47:15 AM PST</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>undisclosed-recipients:;</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Applied Cognitive Science & Design Research Opportunities at ETH Zurich</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Apologies for multiple postings<br><br><br>ETZ Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich<br><br><br>Applied Cognitive Science & Design Research Opportunities at ETH Zurich<br>-<br>Looking for contributors ranging from doctoral students to Senior Post-Docs<br><br><br>Starting in February 2013, a new research group will be established at ETH<br>Zurich with a focus on Applied Cognitive Science, especially linking<br>cognitive science research to interactive systems and architectural<br>design. The group is hosted in the Behavior section of the Department of<br>Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, with strong links to computer<br>science and architecture. Christoph Hölscher, Professor of Cognitive<br>Science, will lead the group.<br><br>The new group is open to researchers with a background in cognitive<br>science, psychology / behavioral research, computer science, interaction<br>design or architectural design, among others.<br><br>Expressions of interest from graduate students and young researchers are<br>now being received. Depending on level of experience, post-doctoral<br>researchers can join the group either as Post-Docs (Assistent) or on a<br>lecturer/senior-lecturer level (Oberassistent). This is your unique<br>opportunity to shape the identity of a new research lab bridging<br>behavioral and design disciplines.<br><br>A key aim for cognitive science reaching out to design disciplines is to<br>offer insight for designers into the cognitive processes, capabilities and<br>limitations of humans as cognitive agents. We support designers in putting<br>themselves into the perspective of the user. We generate theories of<br>cognitive processes to underpin design work, and we develop empirical<br>methods for studying interaction and learning with environments, devices<br>and artifacts. An emphasis will be on Virtual Reality simulation and<br>visual attention (eye-tracking). This approach ties in with evidence-based<br>design movements in architecture and human-computer interaction.<br>Furthermore, we will contribute to the curricular development by<br>generating cognition and design courses for students and practitioners in<br>design disciplines.<br><br>We envision an international group of researchers with broad interest in<br>applications and a passion for connecting research themes and methods<br>across disciplinary boundaries. We will translate basic research into<br>applied projects, including established as well as new collaborations with<br>industry partners in spatial and computational domains (e.g., Frankfurt<br>Airport, Google).<br><br>Example applications:<br>- Wayfinding in public buildings and urban environments. Modeling the<br>impact of architectural features and cognitive abilities on movement<br>decisions, orientation and building usability. Bridging architectural<br>theory, design and cognition.<br>- Modeling human cognition in emergency situations, e.g. decision making<br>and route choice in fire evacuation; understanding the handling of tools<br>under stress (e.g. icons/instructions on emergency equipment)<br>- Usability of tailored software for complex workplaces (e.g. stock market<br>brokers and analysts) and research on information filtering, visual<br>attention and reasoning in such highly dynamic work environments<br>- User-centered design of adaptive interfaces (e.g. Search Engines), user<br>modeling for adaptive systems based on spatial and device-interaction data<br>- User interaction with mobile devices, mapping, location-based services<br>(e.g. Google Maps, building on established collaboration with Google)<br>- Modeling online and real-world movement of individuals and groups,<br>inferring psychological states and needs<br>- Computational modeling of user behavior and user cognition with ACT-R or<br>other cognitive architectures, agent models of individual and group<br>movement behavior.<br>- Develop design guidelines based on cognitive science research, develop<br>design support tools for CAAD / CAD<br>- Investigate the use of sketches & gestures as external representations<br>in design<br>- Organization of work processes, design workspaces, innovations in the<br>design studio<br>- User Models, GOMS, Visual Attention models; Simulation of movement<br>patterns<br>- Understand the interplay of user and artifacts as complex systems in the<br>tradition of Hutchins ³Cognition in the Wild²<br><br>ETH Zurich will supply Virtual Reality simulation and experimentation<br>facilities, using both a CAVE and an HMD based setup, including<br>eye-tracking capabilities. A behavior observation and usability lab will<br>be created to support research on HCI themes ranging from complex<br>workplace software to mobile applications. The group will have their own<br>lab-based eye-tracking facilities for these purposes as well as access to<br>mobile eye-trackers. The department also hosts the ETH Decision Science<br>lab with 30+ networked computers, allowing the running decision making<br>experiments in social settings.<br><br>Candidates<br>at any level should bring a strong methodological background into our<br>group; you should be familiar with some the following:<br>- Planning and conducting behavioral experiments<br>- Advanced statistical techniques (multi-variate, mixed models,<br>time-series, sequence mining, etc.)<br>- Spatial analysis of buildings (e.g. space syntax) and/or collaboration<br>with architects on such analyses<br>- Collaboration on the design of virtual buildings towards empirical<br>studies<br>- Computational modeling of behavior / cognition, e.g., ACT-R or other<br>cognitive architectures, agent modeling, traffic flow modeling<br>- Virtual Reality techniques (CAVE, HMD setups), simulation of<br>architectural spaces / CAD modeling, planning and implementing lab-based<br>navigation experiments based on VR software (WorldViz Vizard or other)<br>- Eye-tracking with stationary or mobile systems<br>- Qualitative and formal analysis of decision making tasks based on<br>human-computer interaction approaches (cognitive walkthrough, cognitive<br>task analysis, simplified GOMS modeling), in domains of spatial cognition<br>and/or interaction design<br>- Preparation of manuscripts for publication in international journals /<br>at conferences<br><br>The new group will strive for a balanced mix of technical skills across<br>the academic levels. Especially candidates at a post-doc level are<br>expected to share responsibilities in establishing and running the new<br>labs for the group.<br><br>ETH Zurich provides a world-class research and teaching environment,<br>welcomes fresh and independent thinking, and offers competitive salaries<br>suitable even for a premium location like Zurich.<br><br>New members of the group can start as early as February 2013 or whenever<br>you are available.<br><br>If you are interested in contributing to Applied Cognitive Science and<br>shaping our new group, please get in touch. 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