{"id":12519,"date":"2012-10-22T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2012-10-22T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:00:59","slug":"job-teaching-3-year-phd-openings-in-the-exertion-games-lab-at-rmit-university-melbourne-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2012\/10\/22\/job-teaching-3-year-phd-openings-in-the-exertion-games-lab-at-rmit-university-melbourne-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB \/ TEACHING] 3-year PhD openings in the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3-year PhD openings in the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n

Application deadline: 31 October 2012<\/p>\n

The Exertion Games Lab (exertiongameslab.org<\/a>) at RMIT University<\/p>\n

(Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia,
\nis seeking exceptional PhD candidates to research the future of
\nexertion games and play.<\/p>\n

The Exertion Games Lab is looking for exceptional candidates who value an
\ninterdisciplinary perspective, are highly motivated, willing to learn
\na variety of skills, are extremely creative as well as technical, and also have<\/p>\n

highly developed analytical and communicative skills. Prior research<\/p>\n

experience is desirable and so are programming skills (such as in Processing, etc.)<\/p>\n

and hardware prototyping abilities (Arduino, etc.). If you do not have such skills, you should<\/p>\n

be excited about learning them. In essence, we are looking at potential for creativity,
\nexcellence and drive in relation to Exertion Games.<\/p>\n

There are three PhD positions available right now:<\/p>\n

WEARABLE EXERTION PLAY: The PhD candidate will collaborate with an industry
\npartner to research how wearable digital play devices can support people to live a
\nmore physically active life as part of a large-scale campaign. The challenge here is to
\nutilize the partner\u2019s knowledge about health and the data about their customers to
\nimprove the player\u2019s health, while at the same time ensure player\u2019s autonomy and privacy.
\nDESIGN OF EXERTION GAMES: The PhD candidate researches how we can
\nimprove the design of exertion games to enhance both engagement and physical
\nhealth benefits.
\nEXERTION GAMES: We also have an opening for a PhD candidate who wants to
\ndevelop his\/her own topic around the notion of play, the body and technology.
\nHowever, this position requires a scholarship (or self-funding), which you will need to
\napply for by the same deadline. There are different options available depending on
\nyour circumstances, application status (e.g. domestic or international) etc., ranging
\nfrom ticking a simple box as part of the application (for Australian nationalities), to
\ncompletely separate applications; see\u00a0www.rmit.edu.au\/scholarships\/research<\/wbr><\/a>\u00a0(i.e.
\nInternational students will be mostly looking at RUIRS, and
\nAustralian\/New Zealand citizens at APA. There is also\u00a0jason.edu.au<\/a>\u00a0for
\nmore scholarships, and your home country might also offer scholarships
\nto conduct PhD research overseas, for example we had great
\nexperiences with DAAD and Fulbright.)<\/p>\n

Entry requirements:<\/p>\n

You will need to have a four-year degree (Honours if you have an Australian degree) or a
\nthree-year Bachelor and a Master\u2019s degree. Typical backgrounds are game design,
\ninteraction design, human-computer interaction, computer science, industrial design,
\nelectrical engineering and arts but we are curious to hear what you can contribute. All
\nnationalities are encouraged to apply. The PhDs in the Exertion Games Lab take 3 years. All
\napplicants will need to apply for and be accepted to the PhD program in Media and
\nCommunication at RMIT University, further details can be found at\u00a0www.rmit.edu.au\/mediacommunication\/researchdegrees<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

The application deadline is 31 October 2012. Start date is early\/mid 2013.<\/p>\n

The Exertion Games Lab is a new lab that researches the future of
\ngaming and play in order to understand how to design better interactive
\nexperiences, in particular games that require intense physical effort
\nfrom players. We call it the intersection between gaming and sports.
\nOur research is focused on the merging of play, technology and the active human
\nbody, drawing from research streams such as interaction design, human-
\ncomputer interaction and computer games research.<\/p>\n

The culture in the Exertion Games Lab is one of interdisciplinary
\nwork. At the Exertion Games Lab, we do not just philosophize and write
\nabout the future, we actively invent it. We emphasize the development
\nof working prototypes in order to fully understand what play is, why
\nwe play, and how we will play in the future. We do this because we
\nbelieve playing and gaming is a fundamental part of what makes us
\nhumans who we are, and an understanding of this brings us closer to
\nour vision of a better world filled with interactive technologies that
\nsupport human values.<\/p>\n

We are offering a great open-plan lab environment in the Design Hub,
\nAustralia’s newest interdisciplinary design research centre at RMIT University.
\nYou will be supervised by Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, who created the lab based on his prior
\nexperiences from MIT’s Media Lab, Media Lab Europe, Xerox Parc, Fuji Xerox, Microsoft
\nResearch and Stanford University.<\/p>\n

Please email your initial expression of interest ASAP to us: exertiongameslab \u00a0at\u00a0rmit.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking forward to reading your applications!
\nThanks,
\nThe Exertion Games Lab
\nhttp:\/\/exertiongameslab.org\/about<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

* We should also mention that you will be doing your PhD right in the
\nheart of the world’s most livable city, Melbourne:
\nhttp:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-08-14\/melbourne-remains-worlds-most-liveable-city\/4198294<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

* Here is what Wired said about us:
\nhttp:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/09\/exertion-games-lab-where-physical-meets-digital\/<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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