Candidates should send a letter of introduction, curriculum vita, and a project proposal of no more than two (2) pages to Linda Illig (linda.illig@intel.com<mailto:linda.illig@intel.com>).<\/p>\n
The earlier candidates can apply the better. Review will begin February 15, and continue until both positions are filled.\u00a0 Interns must work in Portland, OR. Relocation assistance is available.<\/p>\n
Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Intel’s Experience Insights Lab (XIL) is accepting applications for two internship positions. You would join our group within Intel Labs, Interaction & Experience Research (IXR), a multidisciplinary team of social scientists, design researchers, technologists, and business analysts.\u00a0 Intel Fellow Genevieve Bell recently established IXR as a world-class, industry-leading research organization to deliver breakthrough technologies that will bring the benefits of the ongoing digital revolution to everyone and fundamentally change the way computing is experienced.<\/p>\n Internships are limited to currently enrolled graduate students. Preferred areas of study include: social sciences, media art + design, informatics\/human-computer interaction, cultural studies, and business.\u00a0 Interns must be willing to relocate to the Portland, Oregon area during the course of the internship to work on-site with the research team, and must be eligible to work in the US.\u00a0 Duration (preferably at least 13 weeks) and start date are flexible.<\/p>\n Project Proposal<\/strong><\/p>\n Candidates should include in their application a brief proposal for a project they would like to work with us on, with relevance to one or more of the following ongoing research initiatives:<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Personal\/Social Media.\u00a0 How can digital media better support the recording, representation, expression, and presentation of lived experience?\u00a0\u00a0 How can we move beyond thinking in terms of “writing”, “photographs”, “audio recordings”, and “videos” towards something more directly or richly experience-based?\u00a0 In a future of ubiquitous media how will people want to think about, share, and re-live\/re-imagine their lives?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Social Participation. How does the proliferation of increasingly connected, increasingly capable devices enable new forms of collective action? How can people coordinate their activities to address needs and aspirations, and effect change in their environment at the local and global scale? What new forms of social organization arise in the Internet age, and how will they shape the next generation of digital technology?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Life In-Between.\u00a0 Everyday life is full of rhythms and rituals as we move from place to place and from being alone to being together. As we move through every-day practices and temporalities questions arise about the relationship of ourselves to our environments. These include: What does immersion mean in a world full of spatial and temporal interruptions, and how do people work with or around these discontinuities? How are seemingly coherent experiences like affect, complexity, and privacy, actually fraught with discontinuity and “in-betweenness”? How do massive influxes and flows of data aggravate interaction or move us towards more immersion?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trust-Risk.\u00a0 As the world becomes technologically richer, we routinely connect to more people and sets of information than ever before.\u00a0 How are practices around assessing risk and granting trust changing? How are individuals becoming their own professional-amateur experts at using financial, health, or consumer data etc., to mitigate risk and increase reward? How do our social networks in helping us mitigate risk? Do these play out differently between generations or geographies? With on-line relationships gaining strength, for both individuals and institutions, what are the practices that enable trust? How do reputation systems operate in this realm? Are they to be trusted?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Citizen Economics.\u00a0 While citizen science is a well-established practice, what would it mean to do “citizen economics”? With the proliferation of user-generated datasets, are their ways that citizens can help economists provide answers to economic problems of public interest? Conversely, how could people use rich datasets to challenge formal economic models, and to develop models of their economic lives that reflect their values? With sensor technologies tying datasets more readily to natural and built environments, are there new ways of re-valuing the physical environment?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Models of Ownership. How are everyday experiences of ownership changing? How are timeframes and interests in owning products and services starting to change? Why and how is reputation valued? How are shifting practices of exchange creating new states of ownership? How do people use their individual interests in exchange to create communities not just to circulate products and services but also to generate new forms of social capital?<\/p>\n Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Refining and implementing their research plan in collaboration with the XIL team Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Applicants should be college graduates with a bachelor’s degree or higher, currently pursuing an advanced degree (master’s or PhD). Candidates should send a letter of introduction, curriculum vita, and a project proposal of no more than two (2) pages to Linda Illig (linda.illig@intel.com<mailto:linda.illig@intel.com>). 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\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conducting primary research
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Analyzing and reporting on secondary research
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coordinating relationships with vendors and study participants
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Documenting and reporting research findings<\/p>\n
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Experience planning and conducting research, and analyzing and rolling up findings
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to work autonomously and respond to guidance from a multidisciplinary team
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Self-starter with ability to lead a project and independently implement an action plan
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to influence internal project stakeholders and drive engagement and participation in your project
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to network in a large, diverse organization in order to drive high quality results in a short time frame
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to balance personal research interests and objectives with the needs of the research group
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High tolerance for a dynamic work environment with rapidly changing priorities
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Willingness to jump in and lend a hand on multiple projects
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Willingness and ability to travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"