2 fully funded PhD positions in User-Centred Social Media

NLP PEOPLE; Essen; Vor Ort; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A doctoral opportunity at the University of Duisburg-Essen seeks candidates for a PhD programme in User-Centred Social Media. Applicants should hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with skills in areas like Machine Learning and Information Retrieval. The role focuses on addressing social media's complexities from an interdisciplinary angle, fostering meaningful user interactions through research.

Qualifikationen

• Master degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cognitive Science or Psychology required.
• Prior knowledge in media psychology, human-computer interaction, or social network analysis is ideal.

Aufgaben

• Conduct interdisciplinary research on social media systems.
• Analyze user behavior and design user-centred social media applications.

Kenntnisse

User-centred design

Social network analysis

Machine Learning

Information Retrieval

Ausbildung

Master degree in Computer Science or related field

Jobbeschreibung

The Graduate School (DFG Research Training Group/DFG-Graduiertenkolleg)

User-Centred Social Media (UCSM)

at the University of Duisburg-Essen invites applications for its new PhD programme starting in October 2015.

The Graduate School UCSM provides an interdisciplinary research environment with computer science and psychology as the main contributing disciplines. From this interdisciplinary perspective, it addresses research challenges related to Social Media which are understood as complex socio-technical systems characterized by features such as user-generated content, social interaction and awareness, and emergent functionality. Significant research gaps have been identified with respect to analyzing and understanding the characteristics and determinants of user behaviour, both at the individual and the collective level, as well as regarding the user-centred design of social media systems. Our research will build on theories and methods from the following fields:

Media and communication psychology
Decision making and decision support
Human-computer interaction
Information retrieval and mining
Social network analysis and visualization
Privacy and security engineering
Media-supported collaboration and learning

Company:

University of Duisburg-Essen

Qualifications:

Applicants should have a Master degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cognitive Science or Psychology and, ideally, prior knowledge and experience in one or more of the areas listed above.

Specific requirements:

4 years

Educational level:

Master Degree

How to apply:

Please mention NLP People as a source when applying

Applications, together with supporting documents, are to be submitted in electronic form to our Website http://ucsm.uni-due.de (Application) until 2015-06-15.

Tagged as: Academia, Germany, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Master Degree, NER