The Royal School of Library and Information Science at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a PhD scholarship commencing 1 October 2013 or soon thereafter. The position is part of the Danish strategic research project CoSound.
CoSound is a strategic research project that focuses on methods
and tools for an augmented audio experience and making the
information actionable, i.e., enable users to interpret, organize,
analyze, share, co-create, and facilitate story-telling and audio
management. The project is led by the Technical University of
Denmark - see this website for more information on the project and
partners.
The PhD scholarship is associated to the work packages on
Human-computer interactive modelling, crowd sourcing and evaluation
and Music context analysis and end-use grounding, that both form
integrated parts of the CoSound project. The overall purpose of the
PhD project is to analyse and evaluate the automatic extraction
techniques and results produced by CoSound, and to evaluate them in
relation to real user needs and requirements in a music research
setting. The focus should be on creating solutions for the design
of personalized interaction mechanisms that can make information
systems more usable and receptive to user needs by exploiting
advanced interactive learning strategies and personalization
(models of individuals) in combination with automatically extracted
features from audio data. The project should extract
representations of the user needs, and combine them with audio
features based on machine learning methods from user generated
feedback striving to create and evaluate improved search and
navigation based on models of individual users and groups of users.
The case chosen for the project is music and music research. The
PhD project is truly interdisciplinary. It should rely on methods
from information science, including theories of information
behaviour and methods to extract representations of the user needs,
and to combine them with audio features based on machine learning
methods from user generated feedback, as well as for instance genre
and discourse analysis and studies of rhythm, intonation/melody,
and other non-semantic aspects of music, speech and sound
patterns.
The application should include a proposal outlining the overall
aims and methodology of the PhD project as well as a time-plan.
Follow the link for more information. Furthermore, it is expected
that the candidates hold a Master´s degree or equivalent in a field
relevant to information science and/or cultural studies.
Programming experience, especially in interaction design and
programming interfaces is a strong advantage. Experience in
carrying out empirical studies is also an advantage. Fluency in
English is required.
The project proposal is expected to focus on the themes outlined
above in the description of the CoSound project and work
packages.
For further information on the CoSound research project, please
contact Associate Professor Birger Larsen (ftm448@iva.ku.dk) or Associate
Professor Morten Michelsen (momich@hum.ku.dk).
For further information on the PhD programme at the Royal School
of Library and Information Science, please contact PhD coordinator,
Hans Dam Christensen (jbg621@iva.ku.dk).
The application deadline is August 1, 2013.