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The User Systems and Experience Research (USER) group at IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, California is accepting applications for research staff member positions in 2014. The USER group focuses on understanding and improving how people interact with technology (Human-Computer Interaction), and how people interact with people through the use of technology (Human-Computer-Human Interaction). We analyze existing practices, build novel, interactive technologies and systems, and study their impact on real users, often in the field. Our cross-disciplinary team is comprised of researchers and software engineers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology, social science, design, and user experience. <br>
Our current research focuses are two-fold: (1) people modeling, which involves using people-generated digital footprints, such as social media data, to derive a better understanding of individuals and groups, and (2) people engagement, which involves understanding the context in which people interact with information and social systems and developing novel interaction metaphors and technologies. We apply our work to a wide variety to real-world scenarios, including improving collaboration within the enterprise, enhancing precision marketing, and facilitating real-time, individualized social media engagements. We seek interns with backgrounds in computer science, cognitive science, sociology, and design. Applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree and be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Information Science, Psychology, Sociology, Design, or Communications.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">The hiring areas this year include visual analytics of big data with a focus on personality-based visual analytics, privacy-preserving visual analytics, psycholinguistic analytics from social media, social media engagements, personality-based intelligent user interaction, hyper-personalized recommender systems.</font><br>
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