[on behalf of Casper Harteveld, with a note that the ideal candidate for
the "Mad Science" work has educational data mining skills]
------
We are seeking one or two Post Doctoral Research Associates (Post Docs) to
join our fast-growing game research group. The research position involves
assisting in developing games for impact, empirical studies using
quantitative and qualitative data, and writing research papers on the main
topic of gaming and decision making. Additional responsibilities include
grant proposal preparation, lab management, and supervision of graduate and
undergraduate students.
Playing games is about making decisions. The Post Doc will be involved in
advancing the use of games as a research environment to study how people
make decisions as well as to improve their decisions and develop tools to
assist in this. We also find it of great importance to educate the next
generation of problem solvers and, therefore, a significant amount of our
work is dedicated toward improving existing education. We are currently
pursuing these topics across a dozen projects: from a crowdsourcing game
where players can participate in and create social experiments (
www.northeastern.edu/casperharteveld/madscience) to the development of a
curriculum where students create games about climate change. A complete
list of projects can be viewed at http://www.northeastern.
edu/casperharteveld.
The work will be performed under the guidance of Dr. Casper Harteveld, an
Assistant Professor of Game Design. As most projects will involve
collaborations with faculty from across Northeastern University (Computer
Science, Engineering, School of Law, School of Public Policy, and Marine
Science Center), the Post Doc will experience a wide variety of
interactions with researchers and students.
We seek candidates who have a PhD in Computer Science, Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Science, Learning Science, Management Science,
Industrial Engineering or related areas. A successful candidate will have
an interdisciplinary background and an interest in games for impact.
Although we will consider a wide range of candidates, we welcome candidates
with strong technical expertise in empirical research (quantitative
preferred) or in machine learning/data science. Candidates should ideally
also have experience with game design, in particular using game engines
such as Unity.
Apply here: *https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/44922
<https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/44922> *
Best wishes,
Casper
--
*Casper Harteveld, PhD*
Assistant Professor of Game Design
Northeastern University
http://www.northeastern.edu/casperharteveld