Research opportunities for students at the HCII

We are looking for a research assistant who is fluent in both Chinese and English. Prior experience with Chinese to English translation would be a plus. Your responsibility would be transcribing audio recordings into text , and translating Chinese materials to English. You also could be involved with research on cultural differences, if you were interested.

We are looking for a research programmer to assist in developing and managing web based software for experiments on social media design.

Interested applicants should have a bachelors degree in computer science, strong programming skills, experience scripting in js, PHP, python or perl, and knowledge of SQL. Interaction design and interface development skills are also a plus.

We’re looking to hire a part-time research programmer. You’ll help us develop a Chrome browser extension that we’ll use to better understand how feedback about password security changes user behavior. You may also have an opportunity to contribute to original research leading to publications in top conferences or journals.

Dynamic data visualization! Awesome animated digital madness! We’re developing an exciting new digital mind mapping application and would love your help! The only requirement is being comfortable working in Javascript and excited about interaction design process and social media/data visualization.

Know ruby-on-rails? Want to do an awesome independent study? We’re designing and developing an open innovation platform to support distributed strategic design. We’ve got detailed design specs for the entire system and crowds of eager designers who want to use it! This is a great opportunity to learn about agile software development and create something beautiful.

Designers and engineers explore examples to learn key domain principles, to get inspiration, and to understand what worked in the past. However, we lack a foundational understanding of how prior examples should be structured and presented to designers throughout a design process. To test specific theories about design examples, we are conducting a series of controlled experiments.

Are you interested in learning how studies are designed, conducted, and analyzed? The HCI Institute is seeking a student for an independent study to assist with an eye tracking study. Your responsibilities will include data collection, and learning about data analysis. You will learn how to use an eye tracker. The course will be 6 credits and expected time is six hours a week.

Looking to hire 1–2 people to help out with UI design and user evaluation for a mobile/web app my research group has been developing, named Chelada. For pay or for research credits.

We are looking for talented interaction/HCI designers and user researchers. We have a new project to develop a real-time information system for school buses in the City of Pittsburgh.

Wanted: Interaction designer to create an interface for a intelligent decision support tool that helps cardiologists choose the best treatment option for patients with stage 3 and stage 4 heart failure.