Three PhD Research Scholarships in Drama and Computer Gaming
Project Title: Crisis Management Computer Gaming
Background
This major ARC Linkage grant 2007-2009 merges cutting-edge digital games design with applied drama techniques to produce crisis management simulations. Working closely with a professional partner to understand organizational communication under extreme pressure, this new approach will break down barriers to effective crisis management. The computer-based methodology developed will have global application in large public and private organizations.
Charles Sturt University is a leader in Communication Studies and Games Design in Australia with a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in these areas. The project team contains leading researchers in Communication, Psychology, and Information Technology and the project is connected to the Centre for Research into Complex Systems.
Scholarship one: Computer gaming and drama
The successful applicant will have a background in communication, drama or computer gaming and will use applied theatre and drama role conventions to investigate performance in online gaming environments. They will research and develop methods to log and analyze performance and decision-making in such online environments. An interest in the use of sociolinguistics as a method of analyzing player response would be an advantage.
Scholarship two: Computer game programming and design
The successful applicant will have a strong computer science background in either computer gaming, modelling or programming. They will collaborate with project academic staff to design and build a role-based crisis management gaming environment. They will work closely with other project team members to conduct research into game design, avatar based artificial intelligence and development of non-player characters. Appropriate programming ability is essential.
Scholarship three: Computer gaming, speech recognition and psychology
The successful applicant will work at the interface of computer science games technology and cognitive science and could have a background in either discipline. The research project will centre on speech recognition and synthesis in a games context, the capture, coding and reproduction of human gestures in avatars and the psychology of human computer interface design and evaluation. An interest in language and embodied conversational agents would be advantageous.
Conditions
All PhD research scholarships are for three years February 2007-December 2009. The project is located at the Bathurst Campus of CSU in the Faculty of Arts and within the Schools of Communication, Accounting & Computer Science, and Humanities & Social Sciences.
The stipend for each student is $25,118 plus $6,000 resource funds per annum for three years. Candidates are expected to have an appropriate Honours degree or equivalent research qualification and experience and possess Australian residency.
Applications
Applicants should submit a letter (maximum two pages) outlining their suitability for the position, a CV including academic transcripts and the name and contact details for two referees.
Please submit applications to:
Associate Professor John Carroll
School of Communication
Charles Sturt University
Bathurst NSW 2795
Closing date for applications 15 December 2006
For further information contact
jcarroll@csu. edu.au
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