[Asis-l] Fwd: Faculty position in HCI at UM School of Information

[Maria Souden]

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From: Paul Edwards <pne at umich.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Subject: Faculty position in HCI at UM School of Information
please forward widely!Faculty position in Human-Computer Interaction *Rank:
Open*

The School of Information at the University of Michigan seeks an outstanding
tenure-track faculty candidate at any rank in the field of Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI). For this position, we aspire to recruit a skilled
researcher who will contribute to teaching, research, and intellectual
leadership in HCI. While we encourage applications from all areas of HCI, we
are particularly interested in candidates with experience teaching design
courses and whose research interests are related to the design of
interactive systems, encompassing areas such as design methods, design
tools, new forms of interaction, or designing for novel application domains.
Successful candidates will be passionate about interdisciplinary work and be
prepared to join a large and diverse community of researchers in the areas
of interactive and social computing, with dozens of faculty and graduate
students spanning several departments across the university. For more
information about School of Information research and activities related to
HCI and social computing, see http://misc.si.umich.edu/

The mission of the School of Information, where this position will reside,
is to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways. The
School is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with
35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 404 students in its professional
program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other
units, we recently launched an undergraduate informatics major. The School
of Information is internationally recognized for its research strengths in
social informatics, network analysis and text mining, human computer
interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation,
and information seeking, sharing, and use. More about the School, its
vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website:
http://www.si.umich.edu/

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished
history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of
only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten
universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in
the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With
more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has
the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the
nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an
endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion.
Qualifications:

   - A Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in an area such as human-centered
   computing, design, computer science, sociology, psychology,
   computer-supported cooperative work, communication studies, or related
   fields concerned with human-computer interaction
   - Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and
   graduate level
   - Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact
   - A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and
   cultural diversity

Review of applications will begin Nov. 1 and continue until the position is
filled. For more information or to apply, please visit
http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/hci.htm


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Maria Souden, MSI
Doctoral Candidate
University of Michigan
School of Information
seramar at umich.edu
maria.souden at gmail.com
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