PhD Studentship in Usability Engineering

This PhD studentship will involve research on usability engineering and human-computer interaction for eCommerce and eBanking services.

The PhD student will be based at the Centre for Communication Interface Research (CCIR) which is part of the Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), School of Engineering. Located in the University's King's Buildings campus, this is one of the top rated Research Schools in the UK, with more than 80 academics and over 165 postgraduate students from all over the world.

The Centre for Communication Interface Research (CCIR) is a multi-disciplinary research centre comprising engineers, linguists, psychologists and human factors experts. CCIR has over fifteen years experience in usability engineering and design plus methodologies for the evaluation of telephone, Internet and mobile phone technologies for eCommerce services. Current research involves work on spoken dialogue applications for eCommerce and eBanking services; studies on Second Life and other social media; creation of services based on speaker verification and other biometrics technologies; understanding embodied conversational agents and virtual acting; as well as the modelling of customer-brand relationship.

This PhD project will start in 2010.

Applicants should have, or expect to achieve, a first-class or upper-second-class Honours degree, or equivalent, or a higher qualification, in a relevant subject.

Due to funding criteria, the studentship is open to UK and other EU students only. The award will pay an annual stipend of £16,890 per annum plus UK/EC fees.

For further details please contact Professor Mervyn Jack
( Mervyn.Jack@ed.ac.uk )

Centre for Communication Interface Research
The School of Engineering
The University of Edinburgh
AGB Building (Alexander Graham Bell Building - Ground Floor)
King's Buildings, Mayfield Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JL
UK

Telephone : (+44) 131 650 2783
Fax : (+44) 131 650 2784
email CCIR