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POSITION IN NATURAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS FOR EDUTAINMENT AT NISLAB,
DENMARK
A position as assistant professor, associate professor, or research
assistant with particular emphasis on advanced prototype research and
development is available at the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
(NISLab), the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The position is
for one year initially and is extensible for another two years, at
least.
The successful candidate will join NISLab's interdisciplinary and
internationally recognised team in carrying out European collaborative
research on the IST/Human Language Technologies leading-edge research
project Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment (NICE).
The NICE project started in March 2002 and we now want to extend
NISLab's development team on the project. NICE aims to develop natural,
fun and rich communication between humans and characters in a computer
game. The communication combines spoken domain-oriented conversation and
2D gesture input into a 3D dynamic graphics virtual world inhabited by
the fairy-tale author H. C. Andersen and animated characters from his
fairy-tale universe. NISLab develops the NICE system for English and the
chosen applicant will participate in specifying, developing in C++, and
testing the system's software for handling the conversation between the
user and the system.
See http://www.nis.sdu.dk/projects/ for information about NICE and other
projects at NISLab. The working language at NISLab is English.
Applicants should have a PhD degree or a strong Masters degree in
computer science, computer engineering, or similar disciplines, and good
programming skills in C or C++. Experience in system or component
development is highly desirable. PhD enrollment at NISLab is possible
for very strong candidates.
Location of work: NISLab, the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory,
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (www.nis.sdu.dk). Odense
is about 90 minutes from Copenhagen by road or train and is Denmark's
3rd largest city. SDU has approx. 14.000 students.
The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the
agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish
Confederation of Professional Associations). Denmark offers a favourable
tax reduction for foreign postdocs.
Start: As soon as possible.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2002, 12:00 AM.
Applications must be submitted to Prof. Dybkjær preferably by email (see
contact details below). Applications must include a CV, a list of
publications, two references, and the publications to be particularly
taken into account by the Selection Committee. You can use most formats
for the latter, such as .ps, .pdf, MS Word, html, Latex etc. or just
provide a URL for the papers.
For more information, please contact by phone or email:
Professor Laila Dybkjær
NISLab
University of Southern Denmark
Forskerparken 10
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Tel. (+45) 65 50 35 53 (direct)
Fax (+45) 63 15 72 24
email: laila@nis.sdu.dk
URL: http://www.nis.sdu.dk
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