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New PhD vacancies open February

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In February I will have 2 PhD projects open for candidates to apply at this new (merged) Adelaide University- Filter “History, Heritage and Archaeology”

https://adelaideuni.edu.au/research/research-degrees/research-projects/

Radical Co-Design for Filtered Affective Digital Heritage via AR and WebXR

This project explores how technology like Augmented Reality (AR) and WebXR can enhance visitor engagement with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM), particularly dark tourism sites such as prisons, through game design and storytelling. The project focuses on Adelaide Gaol, one of Australia’s oldest colonial buildings. By involving volunteer communities and former prisoners’ families in the radical co-design process, the research aims to develop AR-based experiences that convey personal narratives that can be filtered and tailored to visitors. Key research questions explore utilising radical co-design for dark tourism sites, whether escape-room style game design enhances engagement and how effectively content can be personalised. The project will use low-cost, open-access tools throughout, and will generate new insights applicable across the GLAM and tourism sectors.

Game Prototyping for Museums and Galleries

This project will examine the development and design of game prototypes for use in museums and galleries with content specialists to create interactive, augmented, or immersive exhibitions and/or the evaluation of these exhibitions and works. A number of methods may be considered and investigated, including Figma, ShapesXR, Blueprints, physical game demos, and other methods. Possible outcomes of the project include non-traditional research outputs as well as contributions to theoretical disciplinary knowledge.

PhD Opportunity #2: Escape Room Design

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PhD study opportunity* at the University of South Australia (in Adelaide, South Australia) https://unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/participatory-museum-game-design

“ln this project-based research degree, you will investigate and design learning kits for museums and communities and small classes to create escape rooms (physical or hybrid or via a game engine) to help students develop their own learning by designing escape rooms for others. “

*Sorry, there are no degree fees for locals but there is also no scholarship funding attached to this one.

PhD Opportunity: Audio-Augmented Reality

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PhD study opportunity* at the University of South Australia (in Adelaide, South Australia) https://unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/leveraging-audio-augmented-reality

“lead tourists around past & present live music hotspots & live music history locations of Adelaide with directed thematic or user-driven audio tours”

*Sorry, there are no degree fees for locals but there is also no scholarship funding attached to this one.

PhD Project Call, no fees

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PHD project in Adelaide, no scholarship but no fees, with cool museum partner (https://mod.org.au):

The successful candidate will investigate and design learning kits for museums, communities and small classes to create escape rooms either physical or hybrid, or via a game engine. The kit will provide resources and interaction strategies to help budding escape room designers plan escape rooms for their compatriots, and in doing so learn for themselves how to create tricky interactive puzzles, quizzes and physical riddles based on principles in science, mathematics or history. The instructions will be either via virtual examples through a game engine or game engine exporting to VR, or via online instruction videos using the latest instructional video expertise.

Successful completion of the project will provide you with experience in boardgame, physical escape room, digital game or VR escape room design including scripting, prototyping, digital modelling, and potentially animation experience. As well as a background in human-computer interaction and education. Thus, you will be provided with the skills for a successful and exciting research or industry career in a diverse range of areas. 

What you’ll do

In this project-based research degree, you will review, design and evaluate design resources (physical and digital) for the creation of escape rooms by design students.

You will engage and partner with MOD. staff and deploy IVE, VR and AR equipment, as well as run and evaluate escape room design workshops.

Where you’ll be based

You will be based at UniSA Creative, incorporating the South Australian School of Art, which brings together the disciplines of architecture, planning, art and design, journalism, communication and media, film and television and the creative industries to produce flexible graduates with multidisciplinary capabilities. Our research explores the complexities of the world around us. We engage in future-focused, cross-disciplinary research and consultancy to produce inspired solutions that are human-centred and sustainable.  

https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/designing-an-escape-room-toolkit

Writing PhD proposals backwards

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I receive quite a few PhD proposals and they generally try to prove too much, and quote methods as if they are methodology (the latter is the study of methods, ideally explaining which methods are most suitable and why certain ones will be used here).

Many PhD proposals read more like trans-national proposals!

  • Is it about mentioned subject 1 or 2?
  • What is the specific site (and why)?
  • What sort of audience would be appropriate for the end product and for evaluation purposes (not the same thing, generally)?
  • Who decides it works/answers the research question?

It should read well, backwards. Imagine you finished your PhD thesis and now you are writing the summary BUT IN REVERSE:

1.       Future work will need to look at and develop _____

2.       My research finding is significant and useful because is _____

3.       I found this _____

4.       I decided the experimental design needed to be _____because of _____

5.       The local test site has these features is _____ and requirements is _____

6.       The specific field problem is _____

7.       Key terms relating to the current solutions and potential problem are is _____

8.       The overall research problem is _____

It is much clearer and quicker to read working (and ideally evaluable/verifiable) definitions of topic X and methods Y1 Y2 etc and why they are relevant to audience Z.

For example:

What are walking simulators designed to do, how do academia and industry measure their effectiveness, and how can they be used for virtual heritage (to increase engagement, or interactivity, or control by a domain subject expert)..

PhD Scholarships for S American Students

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South American students wishing to study for a PhD at Curtin or 3 other Australian technical universities please read this

https://www.atn.edu.au/scholarships-grants/atn-latam-scholarships/

Applicants must be a citizen of: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru or Uruguay.

Applications close 31 January 2019.

ATN-South American Scholarships

The Australian Technology Network (ATN) is pleased to announce the ATN-LATAM Research Scholarship Scheme.

This will provide a minimum of 10 scholarships for eligible applicants to undertake PhD research at one of the four ATN universities in Australia. These are Curtin University, University of South Australia, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and RMIT University.

The scholarship provides:

  • Full research tuition fee scholarship for 3 years with possible extension to 3.5 years
  • Stipend valued at a minimum of AUD 30,000 per year, for 3 years with possible extension to 3.5 years
  • Contribution to relocation costs to Australia
  • Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) insurance

Awardees must be able to commence studies in 2019

Eligibility

Applicants must be a citizen of one of the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru or Uruguay.

When applying to your University of choice, please ensure you mention this scheme.

Applications close 31 January 2019.

The Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) brings together five of the most innovative and enterprising universities in Australia and is recognised as a global leader of a new generation of universities focused on industry collaboration, real-world research with real-world impact and produce work-ready graduates to become global thinkers in business and the community.

UniversityCityResearch Degree Admission InformationResearch Scholarship Information
Curtin University PerthFind more information hereFind more information here
RMITMelbourneFind more information hereFind more information here
UniSAAdelaideFind more information hereFind more information here
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PhD Scholarships-Cultural Heritage & Visualisation

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There are 2 PhD scholarships now open at Curtin University, for students interested in 3D models of heritage sites, community participation, heritage issues and preservation of the 3D models themselves:

http://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/scholarships/scholarship.cfm?id=2782.0

 

PhD in DIGITAL HERITAGE AND VIRTUAL CULTURE (4+4 OR 5+3) Aarhus University

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Link http://talent.au.dk/phd/arts/open-calls/phd-call-116/

The Graduate School of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applications for a PhD scholarship in Digital Heritage and Virtual Culture. This scholarship is available as of 1 September 2013 for a period of up to three years (5+3) or up to four years (4+4). Candidates who are awarded the scholarship must commence their PhD programme on 1 September 2013.
Digitized and digital resources with archival institutions such as museums, libraries and research institutions are increasingly being made accessible for research, educational and public use and interaction. Digital resources and data may be both cultural heritage and everyday culture resources, and making such resources accessible and enriching them for innovative research, educational and public use and interaction are central tasks of the digital humanities.
The Danish Digital Humanities Lab (DIGHUMLAB DK), anchored at Aarhus University, is a national consortium engaged in digital humanities projects and in developing digital research infrastructures for the humanities and social sciences. With interdisciplinarity and collaborative research at the core of our vision, DIGHUMLAB can offer the PhD scholar collaborative networks with AU research centres (eg Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction, Centre for Participatory IT) and with interdisciplinary research environments including Smart Aarhus and the university’s research programmes in digital design, information science, media studies, archaeology, museology, anthropology and experience economy, as well as with international research networks and projects.
Proposals for PhD projects should focus on research in and development of methods, tools and applications for production, representation and dissemination of digital heritage and virtual culture, and may involve applied research in the development and deployment of GIS-based projects, digital heritage archives, 3D visualizations, interactive digital simulations, design or evaluation of cultural simulations in virtual environments, or game-based learning for digital archaeology and interactive history projects.
There is also a related research application to set up a network of digital heritage research, which Aarhus University is pursuing with other leading European Universities. If that grant is successful, the applicant may work as part of this new international network in digital heritage, or the research could be fractionally combined with the PhD scholarship in Heritage Studies.
Application deadline: 15 March 2013 at 23:59 Reference No: 2013-218/1-116

PhD scholarships at Aarhus University Denmark

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Aarhus University has some fascinating PhD scholarships available, please feel free to circulate!

http://talent.au.dk/phd/arts/open-calls/

Virtual Culture (4+4 or 5+3)

Design materials for interaction design (5+3)

Participatory IT (5+3)

Heritage Studies (4+4 or 5+3)

Centre for Cultural Epidemics, Anthropology (4+4 or 5+3)

Interacting Minds Centre (5+3)

Theory and practice of IT-project management (5+3)

The art museum of the 21st century (5+3)

industrial PhDs

http://talent.au.dk/phd/arts/application/industrial-phd-programme/

PhD project finally published in article form

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The Adobe Atmosphere virtual environments that were the central part of my PhD thesis, but which I never directly published on (apart from a preliminary teaser in VSMM2003 in Montreal+VR in the Schools) is now  – in nearly full experimental glory or honesty  – available online or (soon) in printed journal form in the journal Virtual Reality (Springer website).

title: The Palenque project: evaluating interaction in an online virtual archaeology site.
authors: Erik Champion, Ian Bishop and Bharat Dave.
url: http://www.springerlink.com/content/y7750p3738878110/
abstract: This case study evaluated the effect on cultural understanding of three different interaction modes, each teamed with a specific slice of the digitally reconstructed environment. The three interaction modes were derived from an initial descriptive theory of cultural learning as instruction, observation and action. A major aim was to ascertain whether task performance was similar to the development of understanding of the cultural context reached by participation in the virtual environment. A hypothesis was that if task performance is equivalent to understanding and engagement, we might be able to evaluate the success of virtual heritage environments (through engagement and education), without having to annoy the user with post-experience questionnaires. However, results suggest interaction in virtual heritage environments is so contextually embedded; subjective post-test questionnaires can still be more reliable than evaluating task performance.

PhD vacancies in Intermedia in Norway!!

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http://www.intermedia.uio.no/display/Im2/Vacancies

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Vacant PhD position within communication design in museums and cultural heritage institutions

Are you interested in research on the development and impact of digital technologies in museums and cultural heritage institutions?

A PhD position is available within the interdisciplinary research project CONTACT: Communicating Organizations in Networks of Art and Cultural Heritage Technologies. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council and runs from 2009 to 2013.

Deadline for applications: 24 August 2009

Interested applicants may contact:
Professor Sten Ludvigsen
Postdoc Palmyre Pierroux (+47 454 32 464)
Researcher Dagny Stuedahl (+47 997 28 156)

Formal announcement of the position will be made August 3.