[Commlist] Job vacancy: 2 year postdoctoral position in Ethical Design for AI

We are recruiting a postdoc with HCI@UCD and the ADAPT Centre for 
Research, based at the School of Information & Communication Studies at 
University College Dublin IRELAND. Please forward these details to 
anyone who may be interested.


*Job Opportunity:* 2 year postdoctoral position in Ethical Design for AI 
with the ADAPT research centre and HCI@UCD research group at University 
College Dublin, Ireland.

*Position: *2 year postdoc - Ethics and Design of AI systems 
<https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ethics-and-design-of-ai-systems/>
*Deadline*: 5pm 21st March 2022.
*To apply*: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ 
<https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/>
(Jobs for external applicants / reference number 014221)


*Details:*
The School of Information & Communication Studies 
<https://www.ucd.ie/ics/> at University College Dublin 
<https://www.ucd.ie/> invites applications for a full- time, 2-year 
fixed term position as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the HCI@UCD 
research group and ADAPT SFI Research Centre 
<https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>. The overall vision of ADAPT is to pioneer 
new forms of proactive, scalable and integrated AI-driven Digital 
Technology that empower individuals and society to engage in digital 
experiences with control, inclusion, and accountability and the 
long-term goal of a balanced and inclusive digital society.

This position is interdisciplinary and focused in the area of ethics and 
practice in Human Computer Interaction, specifically for AI systems. It 
will contribute to ongoing research on multi-stakeholder processes, 
participatory and co-design, and civic engagement to improve digital 
technology design, use and literacy. Research undertaken in this post 
will contribute to our understanding of how ethics can inform the design 
of interactive intelligent systems that respect human autonomy, promote 
responsibility and contribute to individual and societal wellbeing.

The successful candidate will be expected to conduct qualitative 
research that contributes to conceptual design and evaluation processes 
as well as studies that explore the impact of AI and decision making 
systems on autonomy in specific interaction contexts. The candidate will 
work on projects that sit within the Transparent Digital Governance 
Research Strand of the SFI ADAPT research centre for Digital Content 
Technology. Current projects focus on health applications, entertainment 
media and smart cities, with potential for further application domains, 
including extended reality (AR/VR/XR), as aligned with the candidate’s 
research interests. As such the post-doctoral research will be expected 
to both drive an individual research agenda and contribute to the 
broader agenda of ADAPT and the HCI@UCD research group.

HCI@UCD <https://www.hci.ucd.ie/> is an interdisciplinary research group 
bringing together designers, computer scientists, social and cognitive 
scientists. We have core research interests in areas including digital 
health technology, conversational user interfaces, user autonomy, and 
ethical aspects of design for HCI. We publish regularly at conferences 
including the ACM CHI and in interdisciplinary journals and seek to 
develop technologies that have a positive impact on society. The School 
of Information & Communication studies also conducts research in digital 
media applications, culture and policy and hosts the Centre for Digital 
Policy.

Applicants should have obtained or be close to completion of a PhD in a 
relevant subject (e.g. Human–Computer Interaction, Digital Media, 
Critical Data Science, Social science). Applicants should also have 
demonstrated strong self motivation and an ability to work 
independently. The ideal candidate should have a desire to collaborate 
across disciplines and an ability to work as part of a 
multi-disciplinary research team.

*Further information:* Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Marguerite 
Barry - (marguerite.barry /at/ ucd.ie) <mailto:(marguerite.barry /at/ ucd.ie)>

Further details also available here: 
https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ethics-and-design-of-ai-systems/ 
<https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ethics-and-design-of-ai-systems/>


The application deadline is **March 21st, 2022**

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