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

Thu Mar 03 22:02:45 GMT 2022





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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