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Ansök senast: 2024-06-14
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in Inclusive Co-design
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate position to join the Diverse-Ability Interaction Lab (Dive Lab), led by Dr Oussama Metatla, within the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) at the University of Bristol.
In the Dive Lab, we study interactions between disabled and non-disabled people to design, engineer and evaluate technologies that support more inclusion in human society. Our projects span a wide range of groups, domains, and contexts, including visual impairments, neurodiversity, and cognitive and physical impairments in education, work, and leisure.
The postholder will join a multidisciplinary team working on the inclusiveXplay project (supported by an ERC-selected Consolidator Grant, funded by UKRI), to investigate how cross-sensory and embodied cognition informs the design of novel technologies that can support early motor, cognitive and social development of blind and visually impaired (BVI) preschool-aged children when they interact with their sighted peers.
The postholder will lead the co-design aspects of the inclusiveXplay project: to engage with children, parents, and practitioners through design research to generate orienting concepts, scenarios and prototypes of meaningful cross-sensory social play experiences inclusive of both BVI and sighted preschool age children.
What will you be doing?
You will explore co-design approaches to establish requirements for cross-sensory social play technology targeting the early motor, cognitive and social development of preschool age children.
You will use child-centred design methodologies, contextual inquiries, design research, iterative co-design and prototyping, and case study evaluation.
This will contribute to creating a contextual understanding of best practice in supporting early development, generate conceptual design and build early prototypes of cross-sensory social play technology grounded in end user experience and practice.
You should apply if
You are interested in designing novel interactive cross-sensory technology using a range of design methodologies, and in collaborating with engineers, experimental psychologists to:
Please read the Job Description for details.